BBspot - iPhone Hacker Headed to Guantanamo "We couldn't have a powerful phone like the iPhone working on a speedy network. It would've become the perfect tool for fashionable terrorists. We handcuffed them to the slow Edge network because that would slow terrorist activity," said Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff. in Public bookmarkswith applehackersinternetmobilesatirewar
I love my iPhone, but...bah, no Jaiku! Building a Web 2.0 address book solves a huge business problem for the phone companies. Think about all the user-hostile things they do to keep people from switching. Long contracts, pernicious switching fees, etc. Meanwhile, all they would need to to to keep users committed would be to create user-facing services backed by their call history databases. in Public bookmarkswith appledatajaikunokiausabilityweb2.0
Remembering the Commodore SX-64 | The Register Let's not be too hard on the misbegotten SX-64. Are portable computers that much better off today? To answer that, we'll take a modern portable computer completely at random and compare. The wheel has landed on the MacBook Air. It's an ultra-thin portable announced only this week at MacWorld. I haven't been paying attention — surely you can't get any more modern than this thing. Let's look at the features: the systems are practically the same. in Public bookmarkswith applebenchmarksfunhistoryportable