Apple has wrapped the iPhone SDK in enough licensing, security controls and right management that it would make the Microsoft Active Desktop team blush.
Apple has wrapped the iPhone SDK in enough licensing, security controls and right management that it would make the Microsoft Active Desktop team blush.
Apple has sued Psystar, the company that for months has been selling the Open Computer, a Mac clone.
Microsoft has announced a new deal with Netflix under which the latter service will offer Xbox LIVE users who are also members of Netflix Gold free access to over 10,000 films and a multitude of TV shows - all directly through the Xbox.
Apple is already testing the first maintenance and security updates for version 2.0 of its iPhone Software that aim to improve performance and fix a number of outstanding bugs.
Apple announced it sold its one millionth iPhone(TM) 3G on Sunday, just three days after its launch on Friday, July 11.
Apple released patches for its Apple TV 2.1 product yesterday. Some of you might be saying, why do I care, I don’t use Apple TV. Well, if you do use Apple TV, you obviously should care as some of these are very serious flaws, but if you don’t, you might still care because of the nature of the flaws patched for Apple TV.
The latest iPhone 2.0 and iPod Touch 2.0 update patches at least 13 documented vulnerabilities, including several code execution holes in the Safari (mobile) Web browser. The Safari bug that won the CanSecWest Pwn2Own contest was also patched.
Text messaging is already one of the great bamboozlements of the technology age, given the prices charged for what amounts to a miniscule amount of data transferred. Making the service an extra fee for a smartphone is just cruel.
Having a laugh with friends? Your computer may soon be able to join in. Software that can automatically recognise "non-linguistic" sounds, such as laughter, and generate an appropriate facial animation sequence, could improve the quality of web-based avatars or computer-animated movies.
Intuitionist Laura Day receives $10,000 a month to give her insight to companies around the world. But is ESP real, or is it just a crock? What's the evidence?
My first thought (after laughing at the guy seeing Laura Bingle in line) looking at the photos: wow, it's cold wherever this was taken. The site seems to be in Australia so I'm assuming that is where these were taken. Wonder in the lines are this long in the US?
Are you getting an iPhone? I'm not getting a new one. I'll probably play around with apps later on today (thank you - finally have AIM for my phone!). I didn't mess with it yesterday because I didn't want to think about anything happening to my phone lol.
I admit I was skeptical people would really queue up at 6.00am to buy an iPhone. How wrong I was.
The mobile web has reached a "critical mass" of users this year, according to a report by analysts Nielsen Mobile.
The new iPhone OS 2.0 software has been unlocked and jailbroken. It was released just hours ago and it has already been cracked by the iPhone Dev Team.
That sounds so Microsoft-ish....
Apple’s iPhone App Store is now live, several hours ahead of its rumored 9 am PST launch. To access it, download iTunes 7.7 here. Once iTunes has upgraded, you can access the App Store here.
Google just released Lively, a 3D world where you can chat with others and create your own rooms.
I just read an article that said most people don't use text messaging but only 400MB of data when ours is unlimited? 150 minutes? That's not a lot of talk time. I wonder what 400 minutes costs. :(
From the article:
As a result, Canadian Apple Retail stores won't be selling the new 3G touchscreen phones come Friday, representatives for the Cupertino-based company said during a private conference call on Monday evening. Instead, it will be up to Rogers and its partner Fido to lock subscribers into steep 3-year contracts that require a minimum monthly payment of $60 for just 150 minutes, 75 text messages, and 400MB of data.
That's wrong, just plain wrong. It's a shame that Apple doesn't have any control over the plans. Not saying they should have direct say in pricing but something like "must remain competitive" so there aren't runaway plans like this one. 3 years - that's laughable.
Apple, disgusted with Rogers Wireless for dumping egregious service plans on would-be iPhone 3G buyers, has decided that its Canadian retail stores will have no part in helping the carrier market the new handset to customers.
This concerns me. The judge is clueless so why does he have this case? The fact that he made this decision proves how irrelevant he is in cases like this. Names and IP addresses for their YouTube users. Thank goodness this is happening to a company that has the means to fight it.
And I'm thankful most times when I watch videos I'm not logged in. :)
But that's the thing - they might not be for long. Twitter shut down access to a lot of their backend. This isn't anything different than what has happened in the past. People will move to the service that best suits them. If you're unhappy how long will you and your friends stay? Many people (tens of thousands) have moved to FriendFeed. Twitter didn't blink - services are still shut off. That says a lot.
In this case there has always been a divide of people using it how they wanted to vs. how the owners envisioned their service being used. In those cases who wins out? The one paying the bills. They've reached the point where they have enough people using their service the way they want there is no need (business wise) to care about the rest. They are dead weight.
Identi.ca is the first option (according to them) that is open-source meaning people shouldn't be able to fall into the same trap in what happened to Twitter. So technically, it's the first viable option unless there was another open-source one before it. I'm not saying it is the solution but right now it's the first one I know of that is a viable solution.
Me, I'm coasting because I follow people via RSS on Twitter. Haven't missed a thing. :)
Funny you should say that RightOn. The latest buzz: there is a option.
Google will have to turn over every record of every video watched by YouTube users, including users' names and IP addresses, to Viacom, which is suing Google for allowing clips of its copyright videos to appear on YouTube, a judge ruled Wednesday.
Indenti.ca is a new microblogging service that launched today - but it's not just another also-ran. The service is an Open Source, CreativeCommons framework for a distributed network of federated microblogging services.
Dave Winer posted an interesting interview with the Gnip guys. Quoting Dave:
Meanwhile, the guys believe there's no technical reason that Twitter can't turn back on all the services that were hooked into the XMPP gateway -- the protocol is designed for that kind of syndication. Permalink to this paragraph
It seems, therefore that the reason must be economic -- which leads to the conclusion that Twitter, which was founded as an open platform, with a Let a Thousand Flowers Bloom philosophy, is now headed in the opposite direction.
The American Civil Liberties Union and the Electronic Frontier Foundation are asking a federal court to order the Department of Justice to turn over records about the agency’s tracking of mobile phone users.
Text message prices have risen as quickly as gas prices at the pump over the past two years. What gives?
Try saying "toy boat" three times fast. By the time you're done, the words will be all distorted. It's a classic tongue twister, but is it your tongue or your brain that's really tangled up?
Time travel has fascinated humankind for ages. And even though it may never happen, the theories surrounding the possibility of time travel are fascinating.
What if Twitter isn't worth "billions" in one year and instead, it's worth nothing? Just because it has a huge user base and it may be able to take advantage of its messaging platform, can we simply forget that it's down every single day for extended periods of time?
A federal jury convicted 26-year-old Daniel Dove for both felony copyright infringement as well as conspiracy, the US Department of Justice announced on Friday. Dove, the last remaining administrator of EliteTorrents.com who did not plead guilty, now faces up to 10 years in prison.
Adobe Systems is helping Google and Yahoo to uncover Web content that was previously "invisible" to Web searches.
Recently I’ve been bumping into more and more people who’ve either left Google to come to Microsoft or got offers from both companies and picked Microsoft over Google. I believe this is part of a larger trend especially since I’ve seen lots of people who left the company for “greener pastures” return in the past year (at least 8 people I know personally have rejoined) . However in this blog post I’ll stick to talking about people who’ve chosen Microsoft over Google.
It's one of those things - you know your crowd. People are used to the "required" message (not saying it is irksome or not) with JavaScript, Flash, Silverlight, etc. It's almost become common for sites using newer technologies. Particularly with Flash requiring a specific version or higher.
In your case the worse would be the page didn't display properly and a message explaining why vs. the page not displaying at all as in the examples above.
In my experience the people using IE6 are on computers they don't have control over, like work computers. I'll send them a link and they see the message I don't see and it irks them (recommending the upgrade) because they don't have control to upgrade. When I see statistics like this I wonder how many of those IE6 users are home users vs. work users. Instead of recommending an upgrade perhaps something like "this site requires IE7, released in 2006/7" and a link if they don't have it? That might cause employees (or anyone) to question why they are using software that is so old.
Edit: Of course there are probably a ton of people who have auto-updates off. The people I interact with daily upgraded to Firefox personally for the adblocking and are stuck using whatever is on their machine at work.
Did you look at your stats to see how many people use IE6? For me it's 9%.
» PHOTOS: crazy iPhone queues ... Last Reply: 5 months ago by RightOn.
@hthth - Wow, I had no idea the lines started that earlier. Crazy.
@RightOn - Haha awesome! Are you enjoying the new phone?
I'm waiting to upgrade since I see people that people who attempt to upgrade get their phone bricked in return. :(