Protection granted by the U.S. Copyright Office for people who modify their iPhones and other iOS devices so they can install apps not authorized by Apple (known as “jailbreaking”) is set to expire soon. That’s why the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is rallying supporters to sign a petition to renew the jailbreaking exemption law. “The [...]
Hewlett-Packard just announced it would fulfill its promise to make the code of its dormant mobile operating system, webOS, open-source … by September. The company, which effectively stopped the webOS platform in its tracks when it killed the HP TouchPad tablet and Palm line of phones last summer, said in a statement that it would [...]
The Mashable Meme Machine is a daily look at five hilarious viral topics spreading across the web right now. Today’s Meme Machine features cats and tablets. While some don’t understand the point of a tablet, as shown in the parody commercial for Samsung, cats get it. Tablets are the future, and these cats are living [...]
Pixar, the animation studio behind Disney favorites like Toy Story, has made it easier and faster for artists and studios to create high-quality imagery. The company teamed up with GreenButton, a cloud services company, to offer RenderMan On Demand. Now, any complex 3D animation can be rendered in a fraction of the time while being [...]
Much to the annoyance of many of its users, Facebook is always changing. The recent Timeline revamp is the last in a series of tweaks to the social networking service, some good, some bad, and some just plain ugly. Do you like the news “ticker?” How about the revamped chat? Does the highlighted news style [...]