by Chris | Feb 9, 2008 | Culture, Culture, Culture, Mac, Mobile, Web
It’s quite interesting to go into the browser / OS marketshare statistics Net Applications is gathering. Within the last 12 months, the marketshare of Apple Mac OS X powered computers increased from 6.38% in Feb 2007 to 7.57% in Jan 2008 – a growth rate of...
by Chris | Feb 5, 2008 | Applications, Culture, Web
A short message to all WordPress-bloggers: The actual security update version 2.3.3 is strongly recommended. Here at codedifferent no problems occure while upgrading. Taking this upgrade as an opportunity – the anti spam plugin was also exchanged: In the future...
by Chris | Feb 1, 2008 | Culture, Web
That’s a big one: It really looks like Steve Ballmer want’s to get into the search engine and online advertisement market. Today, Microsoft announced, that the company proposes the acquisition of Yahoo! at a premium of 63% to the current trading price....
by Chris | Jan 18, 2008 | Applications, Applications, Development, Development, Hardware, Mobile, Web
The people at Skyhook Wireless really did a smart job with their Wi-Fi Positioning System: They just use the highly distributed public and private Wi-Fi infrastructure of everyone as reference points for their location tracking. So basically every WiFi-enabled device...
by Chris | Jan 16, 2008 | Applications, Applications, Applications, Development, Development, Development, Mac, Mobile, Web
The cooperation with Apple in terms of iPhone and iPod touch also effects the Mac now: Today, Skyhook Wireless released their Loki 2.0 Firefox toolbar for Mac OS X and Windows XP. Now it’s possible to check the own location with Loki – if there are enogh...
by Chris | Jan 16, 2008 | Applications, Development, Development, Development, Hardware, Mac, Mobile, Web
Steve Jobs presented a new feature of the iPhone – and also the iPod touch. Especially the iPod touch transforms into a new category of devices by adding location based services: By cooperating with Skyhook Wireless it is possible to get the own location by...