Tuesday, December 2, 2008
The iPhone Doesn’t Appeal to Business Customers at All?
“Apple’s iPhone 3G, introduced in July, is the only reason smartphone growth did not slow in September.” This according to Needham analyst Charles Wolf, who in a research note today points out that the nearly seven million iPhones Apple shipped during the three-month period ending September account for all of the sequential shipment growth in the quarter. Astonishing.
Android Invasion
T-Mobile will soon become the first carrier to offer a phone based on Google’s Android mobile platform. Well, that’s the rumor, anyway. Manufactured by HTC, the handset is said to feature a touchscreen, a three-megapixel camera and a full five-row keyboard just like the one seen in that YouTube video that’s been making the rounds.
Monday, August 4, 2008
What’s Under Three Pounds, Under $500 and Underpowered?
Add Lenovo to the ever-lengthening list of PC makers turning their attention to the ultra-mobile PC market, that new category of extraneous mobile computing devices the electronics industry seems so determined to create.
Monday, March 24, 2008
Rosetradamus Adds New iPhone Prediction to “Les iPropheties”
If Digg founder Kevin Rose is right, Apple’s next generation iPhone will include not one, but two cameras–the second a front-mounted video camera designed for iChat AV.
During a recent episode of his weekly Diggnation vidcast (see above), Rose claimed that the new iPhone reportedly being prepped by Apple (AAPL) for a summer release will enable [...]
Thursday, January 3, 2008
iFugly
Popular Mechanics is frantically turning the crank on the Apple rumor mill, isn’t it? In the annual guessing-game leading up to the Macworld Expo, the publication speculates that CEO Steve Jobs will announce a breakthrough laptop-tablet device at this year’s keynote, one quite a bit different from the gigantism-afflicted iPhone tablets imagined by others.
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Wednesday, January 2, 2008
MY NAME IS ADE OYEGBOLA. IT IS WITH A HEART FULL OF HOPE THAT I SUE YOU FOR $20 MILLION
OLPC is proving as apt an acronym for “One Lawsuit Per Child” as it is for “One Laptop Per Child.” Lagos Analysis Corp., the Nigerian company that claims the nonprofit stole its design for a multilingual keyboard, has put a dollar amount on the damages in its patent-infringement suit against OLPC, and it’s a jaw-dropper: [...]
Konichiwa, iPhone
They say you need to know about 2,000 different kanji pictograms in order to read a Japanese newspaper. So how the hell is Apple going to adapt the iPhone’s virtual keyboard for modern Japanese?
We’ll have the answer soon enough. “People familiar with the situation” tell The Wall Street Journal that Apple is in talks with [...]
Wednesday, October 3, 2007
RIAA Stamping Out Music Piracy One Single-Mother-of-Two at a Time
Since September 2003, the Recording Industry Association of America has filed more than 21,000 illegal downloading suits. Yesterday, testimony began in the first one ever to go to trial.
The case is Virgin Records America et al. v. Thomas, and it pits Jammie Thomas, a single mother of two from central Minnesota, against the RIAA, which [...]
Thursday, August 16, 2007
Study: Novice iPhone Users Text Like Novice iPhone Users
The iPhone’s “virtual keyboard” technology presents early challenges for some users, particularly those accustomed to a physical keyboard. In a new study by usability consultancy User Centric, it took QWERTY users almost twice as long to create the same message on the iPhone as it did on their QWERTY phone. “For QWERTY users, texting was [...]
Tuesday, August 7, 2007
Jobs to Dell, Gateway: Whatcha Gonna Do With All That Junk, All That Junk, Inside Your Trunk?
Given the recent monomania over Apple’s iPhone, it’s sometimes easy to forget that the company also has a thriving personal-computer business that’s tearing market share from the hands of rival computer-makers.
But while Apple may have taken the “computer” out of its name, it definitely hasn’t taken the computer out of the company. According to market [...]
Thursday, June 14, 2007
It’s Not a PayPal Mockery. It’s a ‘Person-to-Person, Stored-Value Payments Celebration’
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- Godzilla’s Food, Exercise, and Dream Diary
12:58 AM: Breakfast: Two schools of fish from Tokyo Bay. Calories: 782,000. How I was feeling when I ate this: confused, irradiated, hating my size.
11:37 AM: Exercise: “Taxi Stomp” (alternating legs, for 30 blocks). Calories burned: 148,900,183. - Scenes From An Alternate Universe Where The Beatles Accepted Lorne Michaels’ Generous Offer
1983. The Beatles announce their first tour in thirteen years, but likewise announce that Michael Jackson will be going on tour with them as a one gigantic mega-concert event.
- The Golden Age of Video
Best video mashup ever.
- I’m not dead yet
A Facebook Memorial
- Pulp Fiction Audio Mix
Wow.
- A world without the Internet
Worth it for the Rickrolling photo alone.
- Google Wave Cinema: Pulp Fiction
Excellent.
- Dead Fly Art
Flughumor!
- Happy Birthday Monty Python …
… you vacuous, toffee-nosed, malodorous perverts
- ‘You are being shagged by a rare parrot’
Stephen Fry and zoologist Mark Carwardine meet the kakapo — a fat, flightless and very randy rare parrot.
