One glaring omission from Google+ was the lack of third-party app support, preventing you from sharing activity from certain apps and more. Today Google released sign-in for Google+ so developers can offer greater options. More »
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Google+ Adds Sign-In, Allowing Third-Party Apps to Integrate with Your Account
When you’ve got data in one Google Apps account and need it in another, manual migration can take a bit of work . Some data you can’t even migrate. Backupify’s new Migrator tool changes that by automating the entire process. More »
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Backupify Migrator Moves One Google Apps Account to Another, Hassle-Free
Court documents obtained by the ACLU reveal just how vulnerable information about your private life is to prying government eyes that get a hold of your phone. It’s more than just your text messages, folks. It’s every connection point your phone has used. More »
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The Government Can Use Your iPhone to Figure Out Where You’ve Been
Online and offline sharing of copyrighted music took a nosedive last year, according to NPD. [Read more]
Global recorded music revenues grew .3-percent to $16.5 billion last year, marking the first increase since 1999. That’s the year, you’ll remember, that Napster and file sharing brought the industry to its knees. More »
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Recording Industry Manages a Sliver of Growth for the First Time Since 1999
Four months after Microsoft released Internet Explorer 10 with and for Windows 8, Redmond has finally released a version of the company’s newest browser for its 700 million Windows 7 users in 95 other languages too. The new browser will be available as an optional update immediately. Anyone with the release preview installed will have it sent as an “important” update. That’s significant because Windows Update will, in its default configuration, install it silently and automatically. Over coming months, Microsoft will classify Internet Explorer 10 as “important” in more and more markets to ensure it is installed automatically as widely as possible. This marks a significant change from Microsoft’s past practices. Traditionally, the company has released new browsers only as optional updates, and further, as interactive updates that required clicking through a EULA before installation actually took place. In late 2011, the company changed this policy, converting Internet Explorer 9 to an automatic (“important”) update. Read 3 remaining paragraphs | Comments
This week marks the rollout of the long delayed “Copyright Alert System” aka the six strike anti-piracy program. It’s a bit confusing at a glance, but it’s not nearly as powerful as you’d think. Here’s how the system works, how it’ll affect you, and everything else you need to know. More »
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The Copyright Alert System: How the New “Six Strikes” Anti-Piracy Program Works
With visions of Minority Report , many a user’s wildly waved at a Kinect in the hopes of controlling gadgets like a symphony conductor. Now there’s another way to make your friends laugh at you thanks to the Thalmic Labs’ MYO armband, which senses motion and electrical activity in your muscles to let you control your computer or other device via Bluetooth 4.0. The company says its proprietary sensor can detect signals right down to individual fingers before you even move them, which — coupled with an extremely sensitive 6-axis motion detector — makes for a highly responsive experience. Feedback to the user is given through haptics in the device, which also packs an ARM processor and onboard Lithium-Ion batteries. MYO is now up for a limited pre-order with Thalmic saying you won’t be charged until it ships near year’s end, while developers can also grab the API. If you’re willing to risk some ridicule to be first on the block to grab one, hit the source. Filed under: Wearables Comments Via: Macrumors Source: Myo
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MYO senses your muscles, brings yet another way to control devices (video)
StickNFind managed to raise a grand total of $931,970 through IndieGoGo since we first caught up with it , and now it’s set to start shipping next week. In case your memory requires a bit of jogging, the quarter-sized disc can help you hunt down whatever it’s attached to thanks to a smartphone app that keeps tabs on its distance via Bluetooth. Mobile World Congress also brings news that the miniature homing tags have gotten a redesigned companion application, an extended range of up to 150 feet (ratcheted up by 50) and a tracking accuracy of within two inches. StickNFind is being geared up for an arrival on retail shelves this April, but there’s still no word regarding which shops will carry it. Comments
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StickNFind Bluetooth tracking stickers to ship next week, get extended range
Billy the Mountain writes “A small UK company is bringing new technology online that could reduce the prices of tantalum and titanium ten-fold. According to this piece in The Economist: A tantalising prospect, the key is a technique similar to smelting aluminum with a new twist: The metallic oxides are not melted as with aluminum but blended in powder form with a molten salt that serves as a medium and electrolyte. This technology is known as the FFC Cambridge Process. Other metals include Neodymium, Tungsten, and Vanadium.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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New Technology Produces Cheaper Tantalum and Titanium