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A month after announcing plans to launch a mobile version of the the open source Thunderbird email client, the folks at Thunderbird have explained how they plan to do that. Rather than designing a ...

Graphs and data plots are wonderful tools for illustrating relationships, depicting data trends, and tracking goals in your Android applications. I saw this for myself several years ago, when a former ...

Our mobile devices, particularly our smartphones, have practically become extensions of our persons. And yet we do not treat them with the same guarded vigilance as we do our homes. Whereas we, most ...

This article was taken from the December 2011 issue of Wired magazine. Be the first to read Wired's articles in print before they're posted online, and get your hands on loads of additional content by ...