Every day, we curate a list of the most interesting tech stories of the day. Today’s list is obviously focused on the launch of Facebook’s new privacy controls, but we also feature interesting stories about Samsung’s ongoing patent spat with Apple, one of the better posts about what the reaction to the HP TouchPad fire-sale really…
There have always been projects that aimed to allow regular users to create programs without the need to touch any code. Google, for example, offers the App Inventor for Android that lets you build smartphone and tablet apps by snapping together Lego-like blocks. Construct 2, which officially launched earlier this week (though it is still…
We have seen a number of airlines trial iPad-based electronic flight bags. A regular flight bag, the one you see pilots pull behind them at the airport consits of all the necessariy ground maps, in-flight charts and manuals they need to get you safely from one point to another – that’s 12,000 sheets of paper in total. Now, United is the first airline to completely switch to iPad-based flight bags for all of its pilots. By the end of the year, all United and Continental pilots will have switched to iPads loaded with Jeppesen’s Mobile FliteDeck software. This software, by the way, is freely available in the app store for anybody, though you have to pay a subscription fee to get access to all of Jeppesen’s data.
When it comes to tech blogs, the majority of today’s sites focus on products, business news and rumors. What’s missing in this mix, however, is a site that solely covers the world of online communities. The Daily Dot, which launches today, wants to change this and calls itself the “hometown newspaper of the World Wide Web.” The team behind the site, including CEO Nick White (who has an extensive background in the legacy newspaper world), founding editor Owen Thomas (best known for his work at VentureBeat and Valleywag) and twelve staff writers, aims to write about online communities like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Reddit. The site was co-founded by White, tech entrepreneur and EarthWeb co-founder Nova Spivack and Josh Jones-Dilworth, the founder and CEO of the Austin-based PR and marketing firm that bears his name.