Ordinarily, I reserve my blog for tech related content, but I just got this from KISD and wanted to share for those who may have kids in the district but don’t receive these messages. Updated @ 12pm: This morning, the concentration of smoke from wildfires to our north has significantly increased and is not expected […]
I have to say that a Motorola Facebook phone (as reported by Techcrunch) was not something I expected to see. Given Google’s recent purchase of Motorola Mobility and their launch of Google+ as competitor to Facebook, as well as the ongoing battle for ad revenue and I don’t see a bright future for this device. […]
Now making the rounds are comments surrounding the internal Google documents revealed in the Oracle v Google case. The bits that seem to have everyone’s interest aroused concern two things. The pertinent bullet points from the discovered document are as follows: Do not develop in the open. Instead, make source code available after innovation is […]
HP has announced a ‘private Cloud beta’ to introduce developers to their new HP Cloud Services. This is broken into two actual named services, HP Cloud Compute and HP Cloud Object Storage. This breaks the cloud functionality up into the two traditional bits of cloud computing: putting stuff in the cloud (storage) and doing stuff in […]
I’ve written before, elsewhere, about cloud computing as the latest trend (though that’s not to say it’s new, just that it is trending.. again). At the time I laid out pros and cons from the point of view of putting the entire computing experience into the cloud. But of course, that’s only one way to […]
Yahoo is hurting. It’s been hurting for some time now. It’s growth has been stunted, in fact seeing ad revenue shrink, particularly in the face of fierce competition from Google and subsequently Facebook. According to the Wall Street Journal, an insider source reports the company is willing to consider selling to the right bidder. Taken […]
This brief tutorial will show you how to set up dynamic objects with a constant speed in box2d. It assumes you have a basic understanding of how to set up a box2d project with cocos2d. As you are no doubt aware, the box2d physics engine is a wonderful tool for creating a virtual world filled […]
Techcrunch got their hands on a test version of the new Kindle and based on their report, it seems to give a glimpse of how a worthy competitor to the iPad might be fashioned. Taken as a whole, it’s like most any other Android tablet. The form factor is an improvement and we’ll have to […]
The Guardian is reporting that a lawsuit was filed last Wednesday claiming Microsoft is tracking users of Windows Phone 7 devices even in situations when location information was purportedly disabled. In the article, and in the ensuing discussion about the case, Apple’s name was inevitably dragged into the fray, focusing on the hubbub that was brought […]
If you play a game online these days, there is a more than even chance that you can obtain “things” in the game which can be found, earned, bought with in-game currency or traded for. Because any of these methods involve an investment of time, you, like many others, have probably wondered if perhaps you […]
