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A treatment center for internet addiction has opened near Seattle. The story is in the Guardian. I wasn’t going to mention it until I started reading the comments; some of them are priceless. My favorite comment:
A treatment center for internet addiction has opened near Seattle. The story is in the Guardian. I wasn’t going to mention it until I started reading the comments; some of them are priceless. My favorite comment:
I have two topics in this post because I find both interesting, but don’t think I have enough to say about either to warrant two posts. In the Guardian, Cory Doctorow expresses his skepticism about cloud computing. I’m not going to try to excerpt it, just recommend it as food for thought. This other one, […]
On my own blog, I have a category called “Words Fail Me.” That’s what I have to say about this story, from Reuters, except for this: “Screen those friend and follower requests.” Follow the link. There’s more.
10 years ago, if you had a computer, it was most likely a desktop. Notebooks – then called Laptops – were pretty expensive, but were also beginning to show that they could start to replace a desktop model. Fast forward to today: Event the Notebooks have been threatened as of late by Netbooks and smartphones. […]
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Google’s Chrome browser will be included on some Sony computers, according to Bloomberg. The story states that There has been much ado about Microsoft vs. Google lately, not just in the market but also in politics, such as this report on Microsoft’s lobbying efforts. I’ve certainly done my share of fulminating about Bing, not as […]
According to Bloomberg, EBay’s has found a buyer for Skype–an investment outfit that includes Marc Andreessen, father of Netscape. It was a marriage that never worked out. Skype has continued to grow, but Ebay was never able to do what they wanted with it. I think that it is probably a good move for both […]
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I was looking for a defunct website at the Internet Archive and stumbled across a place that had squatted on the name of the site. That page redirected to one of those fraudulent sites that pretends to scan your computer for malware so it can trick you into buying their anti-malware product. Most of the […]
The New York Times reports that it’s still out there and still mutating. So far, it’s continued to spread, but otherwise has given no sign of doing anything else. The Times claims that the AV researchers are impressed by the quality of the engineering that continues to go into Conficker, but that they still have […]
I Can Walk, talk and chew gum at the same time. I can pat my head and rub my belly. Heck, I could even do all five things at the same time and still listen to music. That is multitasking. The question is: Is it changing the way a think and can I fix it? […]
Bloomberg and Reuters report that Sony plans to complete with Amazon’s Kindle. From Bloomberg: The $399 device, called the Daily Edition, will be available in December, Steve Haber, president of Sony’s reader unit, said at an event in New York yesterday. The model will use the third-generation network of AT&T Inc., the second-largest U.S. wireless […]
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The big news from the Apple Orchard today is Apple’s claim that it did not reject Google Voice from the iPhone Apps Store. It’s a leading tech story at Bloomberg, the New York Times, Reuters, and the Guardian. If you are interested in the the iPhone-Google Voice brou-ha-ha, you might get a kick out of […]
“Tweet, tweet-tweet, tweet-tweet,” without paying royalties. The Guardian reports that Twitter’s attempt to trademark the word, tweet, has failed, not because the idea is silly, but because someone beat them to it with . Now, I can see that trademarking terms such as “TweetMarks,” “Cotweet,” and “Tweetphoto,” because they are made up words meant to […]
Bloomberg reports that a Colorado photographer, Louis Psihoyos, has sued Apple, claiming that an image used in the iPhone app marketed by i.TV, is his property. He claims, according to the report, that and seeks more that $2,000,000.00 in damages. My question is, “Why didn’t he sue i.TV?”
Odds are, you don’t really know. Researchers conducted a study involving giving persons cellphones containing spyware (they weren’t spying–the users knowingly participated in the study). The BBC report is here). They found that persons’ perceptions of what they themselves do diverge wildly from they actually do. A snippet:
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An interesting juxtaposition of opinions this weekend, showing how two persons can look at the same stats and draw almost-opposite conclusions: At the New York Times (link here), Miguel Helft claims that Bing! really doesn’t have far to go to catch Google, now that Microsoft has inked a deal for Bing! to be the engine […]
At Scientific Blogging, Kimberley Tyree, who field-tested Mars Rovers for NASA, describes what it’s like to drive one. Read it here.
This morning, Jeffrey wrote an excellent post on the iPhone and Apple. I have to confess that I don’t always read his posts, mostly because I never miss his podcast and there’s often overlap between what he writes about and what he says, but I read this one all the way through, then went back […]
Not sure how we got on the compass application. Must’ve been talking about the rock climbing application that was out there. At any rate, Clint was not sure if his compass was right, so they set the phones side by side. That is when the hilarity ensued… The compasses began to change around. If we […]
Brought to you by GotoAssist Express get a 30 day free trial Quickcast RSS – Subscribe via iTunes I love my iPhone. The 3GS has finally got the touch screen right. I can use it without feeling like I am fumbling or fat fingering keys. While the advances are nice, I still have to wonder […]