It is shaping up to be a critical year for mobile tech.Now There are new issues, and new challengers other than endless iOS versus Android market share reports, making 2012′s mobile landscape more complex and more important than ever before. Windows 8 is emerging as a viable threat to the iPad, while Android tablets continue [...]

Microsoft has filed a lawsuit on the OnLive Desktop — an internet service that streams Windows onto the iPad,but this won’t stop other free-thinking startup from sending Microsoft’s flagship operating system onto Apple’s tablet by way of the proverbial cloud.The Palo Alto-based Nivio offers an internet service:The nDesktop which streams Windows onto all sorts of [...]

When reports of Apple’s third iPad first started emerging, the prospect of the tablet including a 9.7-inch Retina Display seemed slim to none. Industry analysts said suppliers couldn’t manufacturer super-high-resolution displays at such large dimensions — at least not in time for an early spring iPad launch.On the eve of Wednesday when iPad was to [...]

“Kony 2012″ is a 30-minute online video spotlighting the atrocities of Joseph Kony, head of Uganda’s Lord’s Resistance Army, has garnered support around the globe for his removal.In 2005, Kony was indicted for war crimes by the International Criminal Court in The Hague, after decades of brutal actions against people, particularly children in many countries, [...]

Apple’s newest version of iPhoto is using maps from OpenStreetMaps instead of Google Maps for its journals and slideshow features as shown during the announcement of the latest iPad.But,Google Maps is still the default source of data for other areas of iOS,and iPhoto maps are now using information  by OpenStreetMaps. That organization gathers data from [...]

If you’ve visited basically any of Google’s major services over the last several weeks, you may have noticed a little orange box that pops up as soon as you get to the page, sometimes hanging out right over the spot saying “We’re changing our privacy policy and terms. This stuff matters. Learn more or dismiss.” [...]

First, Steve Perlman streamed Windows onto the iPad. And now, the legendary Silicon Valley inventor is streaming Microsoft’s desktop operating system onto Android devices as well.OnLive — Perlman’s latest entrepreneurial venture — unveiled an Android incarnation of its eponymous OnLive Desktop — a mobile app that lets users access a virtual Windows desktop housed on [...]

Later in 2012,two major operating systems are arriving: Microsoft Windows 8 and Apple’s OS X Mountain Lion.Windows 8 will run on desktops, laptops, tablets and everything in between, while Mountain Lion, despite its incorporation of some features from mobile iOS, is restricted to desktops and laptops.Microsoft’s already touting Windows 8′s security. For Mountain Lion there’s [...]

Nokia introduced the 808 PureView on Monday. The new smartphone, which boasts a 41-megapixel digital camera, left some observers stunned and others just yawning.Unveiled during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, the 808 PureView costs 450 euros (US$602) before carrier subsidy. Available soon, the phone is for “folks who take and share beautiful pictures,” [...]

A story in The New York Times that says a “loophole” in Apple’s mobile software allows developers of iOS apps to upload a user’s photo library without specific permission to do so. When a user grants permission to a downloaded app that uses device’s current location, that doesn’t give them permission to access just location, [...]