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| Matt Gemmell: |
Tail wagging
— Last year, Jony Ive was interviewed in the London Evening Standard. It makes for interesting reading (despite the awful title). — Our industry is in the throes of an aesthetic shift. At one end of the spectrum, there's the stitched leather and wood of iOS; at the other …
May 13, 2013, 7:15 AM–
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Closed for Business
— I read earlier this week about a developer who made their Android version free after the $1 game was extensively pirated. Stories like this come as no surprise, but the industry press rarely deals with the core problem - and nor does Google. — I know a guy here in Edinburgh (a friend of a friend).
Jul 25, 2012, 1:55 AM–
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Entitlement and Acquisition
— Sparrow (a popular Mac and iOS email client) has been acquired by Google. The apps are essentially being put in maintenance mode, with no additional features planned for the future. — Cue predictable squawking on the internet.
Jul 22, 2012, 5:55 AM–
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Replying to App Store reviews
— In the wake of the recent announcement that Google Play will allow developers to respond to user reviews of apps (Google Play being the Android version of Apple's iOS App Store, iBookstore and iTunes Store combined), there's been a resurgence of sentiment amongst iOS …
Jun 30, 2012, 7:15 PM–
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Hashing for privacy in social apps
— Three days ago, Arun Thampi blogged about his discovery that the Path social networking app uploads the user's entire iPhone address book to its servers. There's been extensive industry media coverage of this, and a new version of Path has been released …
Feb 12, 2012, 1:55 AM–
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| Matt Legend Gemmell: |
iPad Multi-Touch
— A friend of mine recently asked how many simultaneous touch events the iPad supported; I wasn't sure, so I promised to write some code to conduct an experiment and find the answer. I got around to doing so, and the answer is: eleven. — I'm sure you can imagine …
May 10, 2010, 11:15 PM–
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Apple is listening
— Just a small positive note amongst the gloom of NDAs, app rejections and approval delays: Apple have today changed how the customer reviews system works for App Store applications: you now must have downloaded or purchased the app before you're allowed to post a review on it.
Sep 28, 2008, 5:35 PM–
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Get rid of your code with Leopard
— As Cocoa developers, whenever we get a major new release of Mac OS X, we have to spend time familiarising ourselves with the new APIs and facilities on offer. One of the main goals of this investigative process is to identify controls and funtionality …
Oct 30, 2007, 3:31 AM–
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Microsoft BizSpark:
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Featured Startup - FormVerse — If there was one tool not made for effective work, it would have to be email. If you take silos of information, and a chronological effect, where old or new is piled on top of each other …
Cloud Foundry:
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Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
Rackspace Blog:
An Army Is Forming To Battle Patent Trolls — For the past several months, we've exposed the flaws in the patent system and how they're being exploited by opportunistic patent trolls looking to extort a quick buck …
An Army Is Forming To Battle Patent Trolls — For the past several months, we've exposed the flaws in the patent system and how they're being exploited by opportunistic patent trolls looking to extort a quick buck …
Hortonworks » Blog:
Mobile Telco Dials In and Harnesses Big Data with Hadoop — Smartphones have transformed our daily lives. A key indicator of this trend is our increased spend on data plans versus voice.
Mobile Telco Dials In and Harnesses Big Data with Hadoop — Smartphones have transformed our daily lives. A key indicator of this trend is our increased spend on data plans versus voice.
Unison's blog:
“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).
“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).