Maps that are dynamic, adapting to current conditions like traffic, are the most useful of all, which helps explain why Google is buying a popular social mapping service.
Pressed to respond to concerns over government surveillance, companies like Facebook and Google have had to balance the image of privacy protection with their legal obligations.
The key to making dynamic web applications interactive in Java is the use JSP pages. They do so by including special tags that are parsed and evaluated by the server, thus allowing the page to...
An I.B.M. computer made for the National Security Agency, delivered in 1962, shows how intelligence agencies have long been among the most demanding of customers for advanced computing, data...
A new guest column by UMBC political science professor Thomas F. Schaller on Sabato’s Crystal Ball ask the highly provocative question, “How Should We Vote?” Schaller writes: Given pervasive...
The sudden appearance of three referenda in Maryland’s last election made some in Annapolis predict that they would be a regular feature in future elections, used as a tool by Maryland’s GOP to...
With its new mobile OS, Apple looks to longtime design head Jonathan Ive, and takes a few cues from competitors. For Apple, there’s a lot riding on iOS 7, the newest version of its mobile...
We spend a lot of time following the thought leaders in web development, in many cases using the tools and libraries they’ve built, reading the posts they’ve written, articulating cool techniques...
As expected, Apple used today’s keynote presentation at their WWDC (Worldwide Developers Conference) to launch the latest version of their mobile operating system: iOS7. The launch has been...
As expected, Apple used today’s keynote presentation at their WWDC (Worldwide Developers Conference) to launch the latest version of their mobile operating system: iOS7. The launch has been...