September 2011
19 posts
Intel announces consortium to make even less... →
Thomas Ricker:
The Linux Foundation will host the Tizen project, and Intel and Samsung will lead the development. Also joining the effort is the LiMo Foundation, a dedicated consortium with shared leadership and decision making consisting of ACCESS, Panasonic Mobile, NEC Casio, NTT DoCoMo, Samsung, SK Telecom, Telefonica, and Vodafone. Tizen will emphasize HTML5 apps and support multiple...
And the stupidest headline award goes to...
9to5 Mac, for the outstanding
Amazon’s $199 iPad-killer is a 7-inch Fire tablet with no cameras, mic or 3G access
Why, it’s like something sold for $200 will have to have a different and smaller feature set than something sold for $500!
I’m sure this headline is leading a pack of “Amazon’s iPad-killer” heads out there—the 9to5 piece quotes a...
The Web will go away! ...And?
The web needs an owner, says Joe Hewitt:
Many people seem to assume that the Web will one day become the one and only client computing platform on Earth, therefore it must not be controlled by anyone. This is a dangerous assumption. The HTML, CSS, and JavaScript triumvirate are just another platform, like Windows and Android and iOS, except that unlike those platforms, they do not have an...
TextMate 2 Alpha "before Christmas" →
Just for previously-registered users who haven’t given up. But I’m excited! At this rate, we might have a public beta as soon as July 2013!
What Meg Whitman changes for HP
Ben Brooks thinks appointing her is a terrible move, writing “She wouldn’t be my pick to run any company”:
From everything I have read about Whitman, she is not the one to run HP—even on an interim basis. Again from what I know she is the ‘adult supervision’ type, not the innovative turn this ship around type.
No, she isn’t. But is that what the HP...
Make money telling people how to make money with...
“KreCi, Independent Developer” giddily reported:
I have discovered some new methods to make your applications more visible on the Android Market and have updated my “Make Money on Android” eBook with this tips – my income has been much higher than on my last month averages! So both my Android ads revenue and eBook sales have been pretty well in last month.
So what’s his...
Voting to Hire a Chief Without Meeting Him →
Former HP directory Tom Perkins, quoted in the article:
“It has got to be the worst board in the history of business.”
It sounds like Meg Whitman should fit right in. (Zing!)
Why Facebook is the New Yahoo →
Mike Elgan, with a headline assertive enough to avoid Betteridge:
All this copying of Google+ and integration with third-party services smacks of desperation and lack of vision. All these scattershot changes erode Facebook’s identity, and make the service even more complex and confusing.
Facebook appears to be very worried about its own decline. And it should be. While Facebook is still...
TechCrunch's future without That Guy
Over the last few weeks we’ve heard two dueling narratives about Michael Arrington—about how he’s an asshole who threatens companies with no coverage if they don’t play along with him, promises companies that suck up to him preferential treatment, and conversely how he lets his writers what they want with no editorial interference and how, if anything, he’s especially...
Metro Internet Explorer 10 to be Plug-in Free →
Andrew Cunningham at AnandTech:
When using the browser’s Metro interface, IE 10 will be completely plug-in free, says Microsoft’s Dean Hachamovitch. […] This decision will most prominently affect Adobe’s Flash.
I can’t wait for Adobe’s John Dowdell to find a way to blame Apple for this!
(AnandTech goes on to note “the non-Metro desktop version of...
The death and life of a great American bookstore →
Todd Leopold:
The best bookstores have a certain feel, a certain comfort to them. They’re stately but not forbidding. The employees are a mix of the young and the eccentric, college students and lifers. The front of the store features their recommendations, a little offbeat, a little intriguing. If you’re looking for something specific, they know where to find it; if you...
The Post-Post-PC: Microsoft's disruption-free...
Over at Boy Genius Report, Zach Epstein says, “Sorry Apple, Windows 8 ushers in the post-post-PC era”:
Apple bloggers were apparently so flustered by the platform that they resorted to bombarding Twitter with jokes about cooling fans and Silverlight instead of stopping for a moment to realize that Microsoft is showing us the future of computing. The PC was the future, and it let...
iStatus
GeekWire took the following quote from HTC president Martin Fichter and translated it in their article title as “HTC boss on why iPhones aren’t cool anymore,” which is not exactly what he said:
Apple is innovating. Samsung is innovating. We are innovating. Everybody is innovating. And everybody is doing different things for the end consumers. I brought my daughter back to...
A minor note to people who are writing BBEdit 10...
BBEdit does not have a wide range of things you need to provide colors for—only seven kinds of recognized syntax in source code, six in markup, and a handful of defaults. One of the seven source code types is “ctags symbols.”
It is remarkable how many color schemes I’ve come across that change all the colors except those. Those, they leave at their defaults. If you are...
Fusion Garage Grid10 price dropped to $299, launch... →
Nilay Patel, This Is My Next:
Not the end of the world, but we’re still waiting on our review unit to see if all of Fusion Garage’s audacious promises can actually come true.
Let me rephrase that as a headline:
Can all of Fusion Garage’s Audacious Promises Actually Come True?
Now we can correctly apply Betteridge’s Law here. “No.”
Jason Gilbert: Every iPhone 5 Release Rumor Ever →
While in general the Huffington Post gives me hives, this Mad Libs-esque poke at the rumor mill is pretty on target.
This story template has worked to generate posts for every single iPhone 5 release rumor that has broken so far. My readers will probably recognize this template, as I have used it on about 137 iPhone 5 release rumor stories in the past two weeks.
Yahoo's problem is not Carol Bartz
There seems to be much celebrating on Wall Street and in the tech punditry about Carol Bartz’s rather unceremonious exit from Yahoo. Are we forgetting that just two and a half years ago her appointment was cause for relief, if not wild celebration? Of course we are. Why? Because tech pundits have the attention spans of ferrets on Frappuccinos.
Bartz was a seasoned tech CEO who ran Autodesk...
We have met the Apple Police, and they are us
David Murphy:
It remains to be seen what Apple has in store for the poor worker who allegedly lost an iPhone 5 in a Mission District bar called Cava 22, but we do know that Apple seems to have finally learned its lesson from its second missing phone prototype in a row. The company’s going hiring: Specifically, Apple listed two new job postings last Thursday for “New Product...
Crimson: Steam Pirates →
An iPad-only steampunk adventure game published by Bungie and developed by Harebrained Schemes, a games company founded by Jordan Weisman, whose past work game players might be familiar with—BattleTech, Shadowrun, and Crimson Skies.
I’ve always thought Apple users got cool stuff, but it’s downright weird that we can start saying that about games. Games. It’s the revenge...
