If you’re anything like us here at TNW, we have a library of music on our iPhones because we like it all. That means that there are times where we just want to listen to all of it without having to hear remix after remix of the same song just because it’s in alphabetical order. It’s silly that you’re only able to play your entire music library back on shuffle or song-by-song on your iPhone....
Google has updated thePlatform Versions statistics charton its Android Developers portal and its analysis shows that Android 2.1 (Eclair), Android 2.2 (Froyo) and Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) now run on 89.8% of the total Android handsets currently available in the market. The figure, up 7% from theprevious report, demonstrates Google’s efforts to reduce fragmentation of its operating system, often plagued by mobile operators that would delay updates as they sought to include branding, additional software and bug fixes....
Joanna Shields, VP EMEA at Facebook, stated today that the popular social network now has30 million UK users, equating to almost half of the UK population. The figure is huge. To put it in perspective,30.1 million adultsin the UK (60 per cent) accessed the Internet every day or almost every day in 2010, so if you add in the fact that there are 30 million people on Facebook, a very high percentage of internet-connected people in the UK are making Facebook a must-visit website....
Alphabet’s reportedly planning to promote one of its Moonshot projects from venture to business in a bid to take advantage of its recent breakthroughs in the field of quantum computing. It was only a matter of time. Time crystals, that is. Up front:Last year’s big story in the physics world was Google and its partner’s breakthrough experiment in creating a new phase of matter inside a quantum computer called time crystals....
This week, Daniel L. Doctoroffannounced that he’s stepping downfrom his role of CEO atSidewalk Labsdue to serious health conditions. Sidewalk has been limping along since the end of the Quayside project. Now, starting next year, Sidewalk products Pebble, Mesa, Delve, and Affordable Electrification will join Google, becoming core to Google’s urban sustainability product efforts. The founders started Sidewalk Labs with good intentions, but it exemplifies how manufactured smart cities fail....
