Filed under: Feature, WIRELESS | Tags: Apple, Copyright infringement, Facebook, iPhone, iPod, Jailbreak, United States Copyright Office, US Copyright Office
It appears that over the past few weeks, Facebook has widely activated a feature that allows you to text Facebook to update your status, message your friends, or send a poke on the go. You can opt to receive texts with status updates, messages, pokes, and wall posts from selective friends right when they happen. This is all part of a larger Mobile strategy that Facebook has begun to promote actively on its Mobile page. (http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/05/04/showing-its-twitter-envy-facebook-gets-serious-about-sms/ 5/4)
Greg Joswiak, the vice president of product marketing for the iPhone and iPod, later this week will testify before the U.S. Copyright Office against the practice of jailbreaking. According to a legal brief filed by Apple, legalizing the practice, as some would like, will lead to “copyright infringement, potential damage to the device and other potential harmful physical effects, adverse effects on the functioning of the device, and breach of contract.” Macworld/IDG News Service (5/1)
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Filed under: GAMING | Tags: Microsoft, Playstation 3, Sony, Video game, Virtual reality, Wii, XBox, Xbox 360
Microsoft is developing a motion-sensing bar similar to the kind used with Nintendo Wiis to detect the movements of those playing games on the software giant’s Xbox 360 console. Meanwhile, developers at Sony are working on their own version of a motion-sensing controller, which would be used with the PlayStation 3 platform. Electronista (5/1) , InformationWeek (5/1)
Gala-Net soon will bring the “Aika” free-to-play virtual-reality game to the North American market. The South Korean-born online war game will be able to accommodate thousands of players at any given time. Digital Trends (5/1)
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Filed under: TECHNOLOGY | Tags: Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon Kindle, Hearst, Newspaper, Publishing, San Francisco Chronicle, The New York Times Company, Wall Street Journal
Several top publishing companies are looking to develop electronic reading devices similar to Amazon’s Kindle as a way to get their products out to a wider, tech-savvy audience that has lost interest in traditional print. For example, Hearst Corp., which owns newspapers such as the San Francisco Chronicle and magazines such as Cosmopolitan, is working with a company called FirstPaper to develop a software platform to accept the digital download of newspapers and magazines. The Wall Street Journal (5/4) , The New York Times (5/3)
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