Wil Shipley of Delicious Monster fame, posted an open letter to Steve Jobs about the recent lawsuits Apple started against HTC. You can find it on his blog: Call Me Fishmeal.
My first reaction to the news of the lawsuit is similar to that of Wil. (more…)
Microsoft announced next version of Office for Mac: Office 2011 to be released at the end of the year.
Also T3 reveals Microsoft is considering Office for iPad.
Google as a connectivity provider? For the moment they are launching an experimental fiber network and offer 1 gigabit per second connectivity at consumer prices to a limited number of communities in the US.
Apple released Aperture 3.
Hulu is rumored to be working on an iPad-friendly version of its site.
While FaceBook seems to attract ordes of users and Google is entering the social networking war with Buzz, MySpace seems to be in trouble. CEO Owen Van Natta quits only a year after Rupert Murdoch brings him in.
This is something that nobody seems to get.
One thing I keep seeing as a reason for not liking the iPad is that Steve Jobs announced a bargain deal for 3G data connectivity with AT&T. And it seems that not only everybody hates AT&T but also everybody thinks that AT&T will be the 3G carrier for the iPad in the USA.
They blame Apple for this. Which is nonsense, because Apple have not restricted the iPad to AT&T and Steve Jobs have not announced AT&T as the official carrier. (more…)
Computers are wonderful machines. They can be programmed to do almost anything. But the very fact that they can do a lot, implies that they involve a lot of details that are not inherent to a specific activity.
For years we have exploited their flexibility and found more and more things that we can do with a computer. Activities we could not do before and activities we already did with other means. Today we can do a lot of things with computers. But are computers the best way to do them? (more…)
Adobe Flash is ubiquitous. Or at least it was. Until the iPhone was released with no support for it. Now the iPad has been announced. The iPad+iPhone will most probably become an extremely important browsing platform in the near future. But the iPad also does not support Flash. Rage ensue. Or maybe it’s not rage: it’s fear. (more…)
I have blogged a little bit about it in my italian blog. It was announced a week ago. And it seems everybody and their grandma is writing impressions and opinions (actually many are in fact reporting their grandma impression and opinion). There may be so much to say about it that even if the current hype lasts longer that the wait for the device (and it will not: it will calm down soon, and re-heat after the iPad is actually released) we will not be done dissecting the impact this device may/will have. (more…)
A few days ago I began my “digital life” by starting my italian blog and creating a Twitter account. I immediately felt that I was withholding a lot of posts (and tweets) because I’d have to either translate huge amounts of text from English to Italian or simply link to the original source, in which case the reader would have to actually understand English anyway. (more…)
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