“There’s no control over what happens after a user gives that (username and password). The third party could use it to log in to mail or any other part of Yahoo,” Yeh said. “It’s not a real secure method.”

“Going forward, we’ll have to have a better solution for people so we can classify inside our [...]

Coins explode out of the top of the player and trickle down the page, while various elements get knocked down with each headbutt, explosion, and power up. There’s no way to regenerate items as they fall off without refreshing your page, although you can pick up each piece and throw it around, which is almost [...]

So–why? Well, big tech players seem to want to have an in-house celebrity news hub, for one reason or another. Time Warner’s AOL has the hugely successful TMZ, Yahoo has OMG (and indeed, the interface looks a bit like OMG), and Google has…um…the “entertainment” section of Google News.
The launch of Wonderwall comes right before Sunday’s [...]

One current weak point with the AIR app (that’s due to be remedied soon) is that any locally created passwords will not sync back up with your central PassPack account, so if you’re intending to add any new ones you should do that in the Web version instead. The tool also requires the use of [...]

It’s quite obvious where this commercial was going. It wasn’t meant to be a Vista pitch, it was meant to recreate Seinfeld and his “show about nothing” and bring Gates into that world. Sure, he may not have been Kramer, but Gates did an admirable job in a role that doesn’t suit his personality all [...]

In the SOA (service-oriented architecture) context, I often make the statement that the cloud is just another endpoint or node in your environment. That’s the end result that service orientation and abstraction suggests, but the reality may be entirely different. Upfront planning will help you decide how you move toward your future-state architecture.

One of the [...]

I’m trying to find a positive lesson in MapQuest’s story, but to be honest it’s a reach. I can understand a company’s goal to iterate its interface and features at a measured pace, to not alienate a large and profitable user base. But old-fashioned is rarely a winning characteristic of a Web business. In [...]

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After picking through the rest of the documents available on the FCC’s Web site, VentureBeat believes that T-Mobile, HTC, and Google will launch the phone on November 10, since a confidentiality request attached to the application asks the FCC to keep details secret until that date. Last week The New York Times reported [...]

MobileMe is the next evolution of Apple’s .Mac service. It’s essentially a cloud storage solution that allows subscribers to synchronize e-mail, calendars, contacts, photos,
Safari bookmarks, Dashboard widgets, and more, among Macs, the
iPhone, and the
iPod Touch. It allows for 20GB of storage on Apple’s servers, and it even cooperates with Outlook on Windows computers. Because [...]

The JavaFX developer tools, it should be noted, come with Project Nile, a tool to export content from Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator, a hand-off that could help the technology match Adobe’s more unified suite of products.

But JavaFX has an uphill battle. Adobe Systems’ Flash is widely used, Microsoft’s relatively new Silverlight is headed toward its [...]