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The Future of Touch Technology: Feel Textures on a Flat Screen While swiping and tapping icons and displays on screens is remarkable, there is no physical feeling the way there is with buttons and keys. But now that's changing: New developments in the field of tactile, or “haptic,” devices soon will let users feel textures on a flat touchscreen. |
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November Security News Roundup In the following roundup of the latest security news, read how a team of researchers from North Carolina State University discovered security flaws in Google's Android OS and how seven popular open source applications and products contain vulnerabilities that hackers could potentially exploit. |
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Are Toddlers a New User Base for Software Products? The use of digital information and devices among toddlers has been steadily increasing each year. Recent studies from the non-profit firm Common Sense Media show that 38 percent of two-year-olds are using mobile devices. Rajini Padmanaban looks at toddlers as a software user base. |
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Ambient Backscatter as Battery Replacement Gaining Public Visibility A new technology that has gained visibility in the past few months is “ambient backscatter”—a method to reuse energy that replaces batteries in providing energy, leveraging existing and nearby energy sources through existing radio frequencies. |
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Two Lessons Learned from Nokia's Downfall It was not long ago that the news about Microsoft's acquisition of Nokia's devices business came to light. For years, Nokia was a leader in mobile phone devices before suffering a near fatal fall in the past few years. Anuj Magazine looks at two lessons we can learn from Nokia's downfall. |
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Is There Room for a Third Mobile Operating System? iOS and Android have a dominating presence in the mobile operating system world and in their associated app stores. The market shares for each of them keep varying over time, but the two together have such a strong hold that the question remains: Is there space for a third player? |
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Processing Language’s Data Visualizations Getting Cooler Every Day While everyone's ooohing and ahhhing about Foursquare's new olive branch to small businesses, a large number of people in the world have no idea what Foursquare and numerous other companies are doing with Processing—a "design-centric" programming language that's changing the world. |
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How Many Apps Is Too Many in an App Portfolio? It is becoming increasingly important to make educated decisions about which applications to install, to monitor usage patterns, and to periodically revisit the list to clean up older applications and make way for newer ones. Rajini Padmanaban looks at how to manage app portfolios. |
