May
05
The blogosphere has long lamented the lack of background notifications on Apple’s iPhone, but will Apple’s iPhone 3.0 software really be a panacea its been cracked up to be? Sadly current reports suggest the next release will do nothing to fix an inherent limitation that many of us suffer: on the iPhone only one thing …
Aug
06
I woke up this morning to news that an iPhone developer had begun voluntarily releasing their sales data. This set off a small flurry of discussion and retoric around the iPhone / macintosh part of the blogosphere. Why aren’t developers (especially small developers) more transparent? In his post, John Casasanta theorizes the reason is that …
Aug
06
On Tuesday, Slashdot carried news of an project at MIT to create a super-cheap computer, similar to the OLPC project spun out of the Media Lab. Having played with an OLPC, as well as having met several of the designers and visionaries involved, I am convinced: OLPC really could change the world. It disrupts a …