February 2012
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Need a passport? It'll cost you more →
The cost should be $0. Figure out how to effin budget your money federal govt!
January 2012
12 posts
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What quote most motivates you not to quit? - Quora →
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Business Insider - SAI: Wikipedia Will Go Dark On... →
#Disturbing: Homeland Security Is Monitoring The... →
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Mark Cuban's 12 Rules for Startups |... →
Really great stuff.
LOL
8. As far as technology, go with what you know. That is always the most inexpensive way. If you know Apple, use it. If you know Vista, ask yourself why, then use it. It’s a startup so there are just a few employees. Let people use what they know.
The Wirecutter | A List of the Best Gadgets →
Cool new site that focuses on products that are the best, not just the newest.
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“The goal I have always pursued in my life is not to pretend that I have an...”
– Tom Glocer, former CEO, Thomson Reuters
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Map Your @Foursquare Check-Ins to Google Maps →
Cool to see where you’ve been!
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I, Cringely » Prediction 7: A new Microsoft CEO -... →
Fascinating predication. Ballmer’s way outta step, too 90’s of a guy IMHO. Schmidt is quite an interesting option.
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Rumor: Nokia to sell phone division to Microsoft... →
Russian blogger, Eldar Murtazin strikes again. He has this tendancy of outing the most ridiculous scoops regarding Nokia which in turn, turn out to be true. But still needs to be taken with a pinch of salt.
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FT Buys Its Web App Maker →
Pretty damn good web app too.
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Guy Kawasaki: How I shoot →
December 2011
18 posts
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SOPA: Your Tax Dollars Hard at Work →
It’s insane to for people to submit legislation from areas of interest they know little to nothing about. But that’s the Washington norm. Like SOX stopped corporate corruption? You can’t ever, ever stop people from making stupid mistakes - this legislation is no less.
“I am aware that there are some people out there who think that the internet is like Las Vegas,...
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All I Want for Christmas - Nest →
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If Apple were to develop iFork to reinvent eating,... →
Gruber would write a 90,000 word essay how only Apple gets what forks are all about.
Simply. The. Best!
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Sony PlayStation Vita US launch →
Think this is DOA. Make it a phone, then we’ll talk.
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Business Insider - SAI: REPORT: Microsoft Was... →
Balmer’s gotta go.
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Amazon Kindle Fire vs. iPad 2 – Marco.org →
Absolutely love this comparison.
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RIM: Circling the Toilet →
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WatchScott Jenson - Why Mobile Apps Must Die - BD Conf, Sept 2011 (by Breaking Development)
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RIM: A Dollar Too Much, To Late →
Iain Marlow, reporting for The Globe and Mail:
Research In Motion Ltd.’s top executives cut their salaries to $1 as they delivered yet more dismal news to investors, telling the world the product that was supposed to save the company will come out almost a year later than promised.
The news that a new line of BlackBerrys with an upgraded operating system won’t be released until late 2012,...
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MG Siegler’s Take on the Galaxy Nexus →
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webOS goes open source →
Downside of going open-source is there will be so many ‘flavors’ of WebOS, like Android. Will be challenging for device makers and mobile providers.
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Republican-Backed Bill Would Allow Telemarkers to... →
Here’s what’s a joke. I pay, a hefty fee mind you, for my mobile phone. That’s my number. I pay for it. If I don’t want your solicitations, it’s should be easy. Unless I know you, we’re doing business, don’t call my phone, non-profits, political, phone sales, don’t care.
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Why Android’s UI Is Laggy Compared to iOS and... →
Original Source: daringfireball.net
Interesting technical look at the design of Android’s graphics and event processing by Andrew Munn, trying to explain why it feels so laggy compared to iOS and Windows Phone:
Android UI will never be completely smooth because of the design constraints I discussed at the beginning:
UI rendering occurs on the main thread of an app
UI rendering has normal...
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AT&T admits to using Carrier IQ, Samsung passes... →
If this is true, then AT&T owes data users a credit for overages due to CarrierIQ data pulls. Remember phantom charges?
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Apple Statement on Carrier IQ →
From Daring Fireball:
Apple:
We stopped supporting CarrierIQ with iOS 5 in most of our products and will remove it completely in a future software update. With any diagnostic data sent to Apple, customers must actively opt-in to share this information, and if they do, the data is sent in an anonymous and encrypted form and does not include any personal information. We never recorded...
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AT&T, Sprint Confirm Use of Carrier IQ Software on... →
AT&T and Sprint, two of the largest U.S. wireless carriers, confirmed that its mobile handsets use the software but only for legitimate service and quality-related purposes.
It makes no difference what the purpose is - you MUST disclose this information, especially snooping services. I’d like to see a ‘get out of my contract’ card as a result of this.
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Carrier IQ - Shocking stuff! #Android #security... →
Though the software is installed on most modern Android, BlackBerry and Nokia phones, Carrier IQ was virtually unknown until 25-year-old Trevor Eckhart of Connecticut analyzed its workings, revealing that the software secretly chronicles a user’s phone experience — ostensibly so carriers and phone manufacturers can do quality control.
But now he’s released a video actually showing the logging...
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What Is Carrier IQ? BS, that's what. →
Trevor Eckhart’s report on Carrier IQ:
From training documents found we get an insight to the Carrier IQ Portal. Devices are displayed to the portal operator by individual phone Equipment ID and Subscriber IDs. The “portal administrator” can put devices into categories and see devices in California that have dropped calls at 5pm.
The down side to all of this is the “portal administrator” is...
November 2011
13 posts
Never stop taking pictures of your kids! →
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iPhone 4S can reportedly be unlocked without any... →
Insert original carrier AT&T SIM card
Dial 611 for AT&T customer service hotline and drop the call
Turn on Airplane Mode
Take out AT&T SIM card
Insert T-Mobile SIM card
Update: the unlock also works with the iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4, and will need to be done again if you reset your device. Continue after the break..
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The Rise in Android Malware →
According to a new study from the Juniper Global Threat Center, malware on Android rose an incredible 472% since July 2011. That’s only a few months.
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Foursquare reveals all-new iPad experience on the... →
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Instapaper, beware: Readability coming to iPhone... →
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Finally, a Proper Study to Scientifically Show... →
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Startup Is Moving $350 Million And Wants To... →
There’s a tiny 12-person startup churning out of Des Moines, Iowa.
Dwolla was founded by 28-year-old Ben Milne; it’s an innovative online payment system that sidesteps credit cards completely.
Milne has no finance background yet his little operation is moving between $30 and $50 million per month; it’s on track to move more than $350 million in the next year.
Unlike PayPal,...
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Ewan: Browser access on the BlackBerry is fine. It... →
Delusional.
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Android and iOS continue to steal gaming revenue... →
Why Nintendo doesn’t port some of their games, aka, Super Mario Bros, to iOS is beyond me. Easy money.
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Faith No More
Spot on about Google’s attempt to create iOS products, or let’s face it, most of their recent products.
parislemon:
My sources are very good. Unfortunately, they apparently do not have very good taste.
As I noted a couple days ago, Google was about to launch a native Gmail app for iOS. It came this morning. Unfortunately, while I had been told it was “pretty fantastic”, the app...
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Who Cares: A Native Gmail iPhone App. Finally.
parislemon:
Ever since I bought the original iPhone in 2007, there’s been one app above all others that I’ve been sorely missing: Gmail. Of course, back then, there were no native third-party apps. But a year later, when those came, Gmail was still nowhere to be found.
At first, the talk was that Apple wasn’t going to allow another mail app on their device. Then it was that Google was simply...
October 2011
15 posts
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Siri hacked to fully run on the iPhone 4 and iPod... →
Finally, as it should be. Siri on the iPhone 4.
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Let’s Take This One With a Grain of Salt (Andy... →
LOL! There’s NO WAY Andy Rubin REALLY believes this.
Ina Fried, covering some conference in Asia on some website:
Andy Rubin thinks there is a lot of potential for phones to be more useful companions, but says he is not interested in turning Android devices into personal assistants.
“I don’t believe that your phone should be an assistant,” the Android chief said in an interview on...
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Dell CEO: Android cannot compete with the iPad on... →
Why does anyone care what Michael Dell thinks?
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Sprint Ad on Back Cover of the New Issue of... →
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There are now more wireless subscriber connections... →
For the first time, the number of wireless devices connecting to cellular networks in the United States and its territories over the past six months has surpassed the country’s total population.
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“It’s your heart running around outside your body.”
– Steve Jobs (regarding kids)