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Is the Gaming Industry Shifting to Free-to-Play? A few years back games were typically introduced as pay-to-play games or game packages with a monthly subscription, but this model is undergoing a lot of change in order to attract more gamers. Providers are actively scouting ways to provide games that are both free-to-play and profitable. |
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Five Things BOINC Lets You Do with a Smartphone The market lifespan of a cell phone is becoming roughly equivalent to last season’s outfit, which means you may have a not-so-old smartphone just sitting around. BOINC allows smartphone users to contribute their phone's processing power to scientific research when charging their phones. |
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Microsoft Reveals New Video Demo of Windows 8.1 Microsoft is releasing a slew of noteworthy changes to Windows 8 in what amounts to a significant software update, once codenamed Windows Blue and now called Windows 8.1. Today, the company released a four-and-a-half-minute video tour through some of the update’s notable offerings. |
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Zapier Provides Outage Status Board for Nearly 200 APIs There are service dashboards that track larger APIs, such as those for Google, Amazon, and Dropbox. But Zapier, a startup that integrates APIs and online services, is sharing its status board for nearly 200 online services, with millions of API requests performed a month—a big help for developers. |
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The Real Cost of Free Apps While common sense tells us not to allow random strangers unrestricted access to our homes, that’s what we may inadvertently be doing when we download those free mobile apps. Pamela Rentz looks at the real cost of free apps—your personal data. |
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When It Comes to Installing Updates, Don’t Forget Your Desktop Mobile may be getting all the press these days due to issues raised with third-party app security, but the apps on our desktops and PCs are just as susceptible to viruses and attacks. Protecting your desktop computer is just as simple as protecting your mobile device. You just need to be educated. |
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FTC Stresses “Privacy by Design” for Mobile App Developers For those who develop mobile apps, the federal government wants to make sure everyone is aware that privacy by design—privacy and data protection for consumers—should be built into every stage of the development cycle. Pamela Rentz details the latest privacy efforts by the Federal Trade Commission. |
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Introducing Apps for Apes Tablet popularity is skyrocketing, and many users are, well, captivated. At the Smithsonian's National Zoo, orangutans are going high-tech, courtesy of Apps for Apes and Orangutan Outreach, a non-profit organization with a mission to save endangered orangutans and protect their rainforest home. |
