Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Girls Around Me App: It's Complicated

Girls Around Me App: It's Complicated

Girls Around Me App: It's Complicated

Posted: 03 Apr 2012 02:43 PM PDT

If you find out everything about someone by talking to lots of people, then put the information together and tell everyone else, are you being creepy? Or are you just a gossip? That's the gist of the argument raging around the controversial Girls Around Me iOS app. The app scours Facebook and FourSquare for information women have posted on these services' public pages. It then collates that data and ties it to those women's current geolocation as provided on FourSquare. The app's users can then see a list of those women who happen to be in their vicinity.

RIM's Mobile Fusion Lets IT Management Go Multi-Platform

Posted: 03 Apr 2012 11:46 AM PDT

Research In Motion has released BlackBerry Mobile Fusion, extending its mobile device management platform to the Android and iOS operating systems through the company's Universal Device Service. Mobile Fusion lets IT manage BlackBerry smartphones up to the BlackBerry 7, as well as the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet and mobile devices running iOS and Android. In the future, Mobile Fusion will include BlackBerry 10 smartphones in its coverage.

Pastebin to Patrol Its Corridors for Sensitive Data

Posted: 03 Apr 2012 10:57 AM PDT

Online text depository Pastebin has decided to more closely monitor its site to quickly remove potentially sensitive information, according to a report from the BBC. The site is intended as a way for Internet users to post large amounts of data outside of somewhere such as a comment forum or a blog post, where huge amounts of text would appear to be out of place. Because of its plain text format, programmers also use the site to post codes. Lately, though, it has become increasingly popular as a spot for hacking groups to deposit large amounts of sensitive data.

Australian Court Hangs Blame for Deceptive Ads on Google

Posted: 03 Apr 2012 08:28 AM PDT

In Australia, a federal court ruled Tuesday that Google was guilty of breaching trade laws by hosting misleading advertisements. At issue: advertisers generating the appearance of their own ads by using the names of competitors as keywords. The court ruled that this was likely to mislead those searching for information about competing companies. The ruling, according to the Sydney Morning Herald, "holds search engines responsible for their advertisers' content," and overturns a September ruling that deemed Google not liable for such deception on the part of advertisers.

What's New in the Electric Car Boutiques

Posted: 03 Apr 2012 05:00 AM PDT

In 2003, a group of engineers got together in Menlo Park, Calif., and began developing an all-new electric vehicle -- what would become the world's first highway-capable electric car. "[They] wanted to show the world that electric vehicles could be awesome," said Khobi Brooklyn, a spokesperson for the company they formed, Tesla Motors. There hadn't been many car manufacturing startups since the beginning of the 20th century, so the Tesla project was unusual. The first car it built, the Tesla Roadster, began with the creation of Tesla's proprietary electric powertrain tech.

Federal Agencies Struggle With Protecting IT Supply Chain

Posted: 03 Apr 2012 05:00 AM PDT

Managers of information technology systems in both the private and public sectors have had their hands full dealing with security breaches that come from hackers invading IT systems. Increasingly, however, IT systems are becoming vulnerable from another channel -- the actual supply chain sources of both hardware equipment and software programs. Federal agencies are just as vulnerable as commercial enterprises to supply chain security breaches, and perhaps are even more sensitive to such vulnerabilities given the nature of government information involving everything from taxpayer data to national security data.

Yahoo Serves Mojito to Liven Up the Mobile Web Party

Posted: 03 Apr 2012 05:00 AM PDT

Yahoo has offered its Mojito application framework to the open source community under the BSD license. Mojito is an MVC JavaScript Web application framework built on release 3 of Yahoo's open source JavaScript Yahoo User Interface Library. MVC is a software architecture that isolates the domain logic from the user interface, which allows for independent developing, testing and maintenance of each while providing a loose coupling between input logic, business logic and UI logic.

Appinator Makes a Very Easy Task Ever So Slightly Easier

Posted: 03 Apr 2012 05:00 AM PDT

Recent Mac converts who've used Windows machines for years sometimes undergo a slight learning curve as they figure out how to accomplish certain tasks that were second nature on PCs. Often these Mac mysteries can be solved with a single well-put Google search, or perhaps a quick and inexpensive trip to the Mac App Store. Icon customization was something that puzzled me at first. What if I think that dock icon is ugly and I want to change it? I quickly learned that all it takes is some copying and pasting in the Get Info window.
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