Tag Archive for: Apps

More EXOdesk details surface: 10-point touch, custom HTML5 apps (Dieter Bohn/The Verge)

Dieter Bohn / The Verge:
More EXOdesk details surface: 10-point touch, custom HTML5 apps  —  After teasing the EXOdesk themselves in a YouTube video, the company has passed along some details on the “interactive desk” to The Long Climb.  In addition to the (perhaps optimistic) rendering you see above …

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iPhone Security Bug Lets Innocent-Looking Apps Go Bad (Andy Greenberg/The Firewall)

Andy Greenberg / The Firewall:
iPhone Security Bug Lets Innocent-Looking Apps Go Bad  —  Apple’s iPhones and iPads have remained malware-free thanks mostly to the company’s puritanical attitude toward its App Store: Nothing even vaguely sinful gets in, and nothing from outside the App Store gets downloaded to an iOS gadget.

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Windows 8 on ARM won’t run x86 apps Microsoft admits (Chris Davies/SlashGear)

Chris Davies / SlashGear:
Windows 8 on ARM won’t run x86 apps Microsoft admits  —  Windows 8 ARM PCs will not, in fact, have full app compatibility with software designed for x86 Windows 7 and 8 computers, Microsoft has confirmed, instead demanding that developers port their titles over to the new architecture.

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Mobile payment security apps coming to NFC-ready smartphones [Computer News Middle East] – TMCnet

(Computer News Middle East Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Four major credit card companies are working with the Isis mobile wallet venture to install mobile payment security applications on upcoming NFC-ready smartphones in the U.S, the companies said. Visa …
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