This shiny new iPhone 3G might actually be an expensive brick unless activated in an authorized store.
With the release of formal iPhone applications, it’s been interesting to wonder how unofficial iPhone development projects would continue. There’s little doubt groups like the iPhone Dev Team will continue to build applications that Apple decides are not [...]
The expansion in question will encompass many of the features that Adelson and founder Kevin Rose repeatedly talk about in their quarterly town hall Webcasts. Additionally, the site plans to explore geographic expansion options, including translating Digg into languages other than English, and “significantly” expanding the size of its San Francisco workforce.
For more, see Rafe [...]
The inventor of the increasingly ubiquitous Pleco Chinese-English dictionary software for Palm and Windows Mobile devices said the company is “very seriously considering developing” an
iPhone version.
It’s next to impossible to buy a cell phone-less Palm or Windows Mobile handheld in many parts of the world nowadays, but the
iPod Touch is all over the place, so [...]
If a few crappy TV shows and the Lone Ranger can do that much, can you imagine what a little Mario and Solid Snake can do? The generation that has been reared on video games may be able to fly to Mars, set up a colony, play a quick round of 18 on the moon, [...]
Years ago, for my wife’s birthday, I bought her a terrarium for her orchids. You know where I got it? Terrariumsale.com. Because that’s what showed up in Google. Now, Terrariumsale.com is not a business unto itself. It’s one of several front-ends to a catalog of goods sold by FineWebStores. I was reminded of this [...]
In the next 12 months, iPhone buyers are going to be all the people who couldn’t justify spending $399 on a phone as well as those who would have never considered buying a phone that ran on a slow network, plus the hard-core upgraders, I suppose. Some analysts expect Apple to sell as many [...]
It’s still just a research project. Microsoft has released some of the underlying technology into the public domain. Fitzgibbon also hopes to put a user interface on top of the technology and make it available somehow to the public, though he declined to offer a timetable on that.
The effect Microsoft demoed (see video here) is [...]
In fact, a surprisingly optimistic author Steven Johnson said Friday during his talk, “The Ecosystem of News,” at the South by Southwest Interactive festival (SXSWi), there’s actually a bright future for news and the best hope for a vibrant, effective, and worthwhile news-gathering community is to look back at the model set over the last [...]
Blog site DataBreaches.net has been tracking the reports here and here.
The breach appears to have affected fewer account holders than were affected by a breach reported by Heartland Payment Systems last month, but represents a “significant number nonetheless,” the statement said. “According to VISA officials, the breach affected all card brands. Evidence [...]
Today, Chrome is simply a technology demonstration - and I can’t see
Firefox users with their carefully-cultivated selection of add-ons, or Opera users, making the jump any time soon. But Chrome is a Trojan Horse for bundling Google’s Gears onto your PC - and in the hope that manufacturers look to Google services for new Eee-type [...]
