It’s a funny enough question to be asking seeing asTwitterhas been around well over 4 years now, but I was prompted to write this post after this article, in which Twitter’s own CEO admitted that he had to do some work figuring out what Twitter was and how it would be defined. “I am working on clarity around that at the moment. I am currently trying to define what Twitter’s purpose is in the long term....
Right, it’s that time again. It’s time to re-open the discussion on thefuture of HTML5 and Silverlight at Microsoft. Given how contentious this issue is, I am going to make no pains whatsoever to appease to either side. Bring on the flames, in other words, I can take it. Microsoft is, based on past actions and fresh news today, pushing Silverlight out of the cart, and will lean completely on HTML5 to handle all cross-platform requirements that the company has, both in the mobile and desktop spaces moving forward....
Making its public debut with the release of the HTC Dream/G1, Google’s Android mobile operating system has provided the search giant with a massively successful mobile ecosystem that, whilst doesn’t directly generate revenues through licensing, it provides smartphone manufacturers with a free, powerful and customisable software platform – generating millions of dollars in sales – and also helps possibly the world’s biggest advertising company dominate another advertising vertical. It took just two two years for Android to become the world’s most popular smartphone platform, eclipsing Nokia’s Symbian operating system as Apple, HTC and Samsung began to make significant inroads into Nokia’s market share, a time when it was powering nearly 60% of all smartphones sold....
“Blood Wars” is artist Kathy High’s latest art-science installation using human blood. The experiment artistically and scientifically studies the human immune system. For the project, High takes blood from two people, separates out the white blood cells, stains them different colors and puts them back together into a petri dish. She then films the white bloods cells under a microscope using time lapse microscopy. Blood Wars is also a competition. The white blood cells of two different people duke it out, and the winner goes onto play the next match....
This is adapted from Plugged In, TNW’s bi-weekly newsletter on gear and gadgets.Subscribe to it here. Watch out!Plugged Inhas just tumbled through the ceiling and is now laying on the floor and rolling around and groaning in agony. But you know what? That hurts less than what happened this week. It’s story time — and that means one thing: slipping this stifling robe from my shoulders and getting comfortable enough to paint you a word picture....
