Gizmos… “Politically Charged” App Apparently Approved 5 Oct 2009 Ooooh, look at that consonance! Anyway, it looks like iSinglePayer has been approved after all, sayeth Engadget.
Law… Hack in the Box Conference 5 Oct 2009 Today marks the beginning of HITBSecConf2009--the Hack in the Box Security Conference--being held in Malaysia. The topics sound threatening ("Clobbering the Cloud," "Attacking Interoperability," "Bugs and Kisses: Spying on BlackBerry…
Gizmos… iPhone App Developers Souring? 2 Oct 2009 Macworld has an interesting post about the C4 independent developers conference, and the apparent trend towards not developing for the iPhone. As the post points out, yes, the App Store…
Gizmos… Opera Mini 5 beta for BlackBerry 16 Sep 2009 I saw this morning that Opera has released a new version of its mini browser. (See this Gizmodo post and this PC Magazine post (via Yahoo!).) Being fond of Opera's…
Society… Strange Results 8 Sep 2009 I have a feeling that the author of this Time article on the old tripey trope that one shouldn't wear white after Labor Day didn't mean for this to happen:…
Software… Windows 7 Pricing 25 Jun 2009 Gizmodo has the details on Windows 7 pricing (gleaned from the Windows Blog), and it appears far far far FAR better than I expected. If you recall, I cynically expected…
Software… Pardus 2008.2 Part 2 25 Jun 2009 As I discussed in my last post, just getting to the point where I had actually booted into a working Linux environment seemed a rather difficult task. But, nontheless, there…
Software… Pardus 2008.2 Part 1 25 Jun 2009 I've been playing with a great Linux distro I hadn't heard of until this past weekend. It's called Pardus, and it's really very nice. Before I get into discussing why…
Software… Windows 7 in Five Months 3 Jun 2009 Ars Technica tells me that Windows 7 will be going on sale on October 22, 2009. There's no news of pricing yet, though. My thinking is that it will be…
Software… Bing! 1 Jun 2009 I'm not entirely sure I like the name of Microsoft's new search engine, Bing. Actually, I'm pretty sure I don't. But, whatever, it's new and shiny, and everyone's playing with…
