Categories: Technology, Mac 'n' Trash
01/27/12
The Founders
I read Forbes not because I think they have good content, but because even I can laugh at their often horrible copy editing and the ridiculousness of the business press. Usually I'm shown flagrant examples of the group think that prevents real innovatio… more »
11/30/11
Phone Tap
"Your Android Phone Is Secretly Recording Everything You Do."
I'm going to follow this closely. more »
10/25/11
Hey, yo kids! Remember when I used to be dope?
"Google dumps + from Boolean search tool."
What I'm still salty about is the undocumented use of synonyms that ruin searches. Google now often replaces "Fedora" with the names of other Linux distributions like "Ubuntu" instead, which isn't a helpful… more »
09/21/11
Yahoo!
Not that I use Yahoo! for anything these days, but reading this made sure I never will again:
Thinking about e-mailing your friends and neighbors about the protests against Wall Street happening right now? If you have a Yahoo e-mail account, think… more »
08/21/11
Tricknowledgy
"ARM vet: The CPU's future is threatened."
An interesting overview of the uncertain future of CPU designs. more »
07/01/11
"Gmail Goes Under the Knife, Other G Products Next in Line."
I'm not digging the new design, and it's solely because I'm a crotchety old man. more »
06/28/11
Bad Apple
"iOS 5 beta hobbles OS downgrades, untethered jailbreaks":
Those who screw up their iPhones with an unsupported jailbreak—or who have bad luck with their iOS upgrades and want to roll back to an older version—are usually able to make everything rig… more »
05/10/11
Bad Apple
"Meet The Workers Who Make Your iPad: 100 Hours Of Overtime, No-Suicide Pacts, Standing For 14 Hours A Day." more »
04/26/11
You got some nice players they just on the wrong team
Apparently, I'm in the wrong camp. more »
04/25/11
The cellular phone rings, don't want ta pick it up, but it's my J.O.B.
"So You Want to Use Your iPhone for Work? Uh-oh."
Pretty smart article. I find it chilling that China and South Korea seem to be friendlier to the employee than U.S. is. And if I were the CEO of Google I'd be looking at buying Good Technology Inc., t… more »
04/20/11
Rotten Apple
"3G Apple iOS Devices Are Storing Users’ Location Data."
No incisive comment, just hatin' on Apple. more »
04/15/11
The Takeover
"FCC's net neutrality is not Neutral"
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Saw some guy link to this video on a discussion of Internet speeds and geography today. He was dead serious in believing this. more »
Like the new Playstation and the new XBox
"Nintendo Rumored to be Premiering Powerful Next-Gen Console at E3" reports Forbes:
It’s just whispers at this point, but outlets like Game Informer and Kotaku are hearing rumors that Nintendo is planning something huge for E3 this year. Sales… more »
04/11/11
I'm Still #1
"Windows 7 passes Windows XP as the top OS in US."
Just not on the corporate sector, I bet. I'm getting a new laptop today, I bet it shipped with Windows 7 and will have XP installed over it. more »
04/06/11
Slapped the Mac
"AT&T's iPhone 4 drops 2.5 times as many calls as Verizon's." more »
03/18/11
Before the game was based on YouTube
"YouTube’s Scale Disrupts Us All" reports Forbes:
Google’s video service now receives 35 hours of video every minute. That is about 6 years of video every day, with a weekly upload equal to 170,000 feature films. It gets 2 billion views a day, from… more »
02/28/11
Cause they've been asking, they've been searching
"Google Revamps to Fight Cheaters" reports the Wall Street Journal:
Last month, Google acknowledged it "can and should do better" to beat back sites that "copy content from other websites" or provide information that is "just not very useful" but… more »
High in the Clouds
"Gmail users howl in anguish at 'disappeared' accounts."
Ouch. more »
02/24/11
Makin' it harder, better, faster, stronger
"Intel throws Thunderbolt"
Now we know why Intel was dragging its feet with USB 3.0 support - it's got its own competing interconnect that's twice as fast in Thunderbolt (formerly known as Light Peak).
Thunderbolt is a 10Gbit/s, bi-directional,… more »
02/21/11
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