The camera is never where the eyes are
Video calling has been six months away from replacing business travel since roughly 1964, when the picturephone was demonstrated at a world’s…
A download is not a listener
Podcasting is built on genuinely open pieces. An audio file on a web server, a feed listing the files, a program that…
The best location technology in your phone is not GPS
The received view is that phones are getting GPS chips and location applications follow from that. Nokia put a receiver in the…
USB beat a better connector and it was not close
The specification being drafted for the next version of USB promises around ten times the throughput of the current one. That is…
The A103: OPPO’s First Phone and the Mobile Bet That Changed Everything
May 2008. OPPO's first mobile phone — the A103 "Smiley Phone" — goes on sale in China. Not a smartphone. Not for…
WordPress redesigned itself, and some of its power users are furious
WordPress's recent redesign aims to enhance the experience for new users, improving navigation and functionality. However, experienced users are frustrated by the…
Grand Theft Auto IV Launches, Record $310M Opening Day, Mature Narrative Elevates Series
Rockstar Games released Grand Theft Auto IV on April 29, 2008 for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 introducing protagonist Niko Bellic navigating…
Efficiency sells when you rename it battery life
Efficiency has become a purchasing criterion in this industry, and I would like to be generous about why, but the honest answer…
A video game just outsold every movie in history on day one
Grand Theft Auto IV achieved over five hundred million dollars in sales on its launch day, surpassing any film’s opening weekend. While…
Mobile payments need someone who can dictate
Paying for things with a phone has worked in Japan for four years. Commuters touch a handset to a reader at the…
Merb exists because Rails got heavy
A new Ruby web framework, Merb, emerges as a lightweight alternative to Rails, which has become cumbersome with increased user demands. While…
Ubuntu is good enough. The software still isn’t there.
Ubuntu's latest release presents significant improvements in usability and performance. However, desktop Linux remains at around one percent market share due to…
Google just told the industry which links are allowed to count
Google spent February and March making an example of people, and it is worth being specific about who. Text Link Ads, one…
The plan to weaken Apple made Apple the biggest retailer
Apple says iTunes is now the largest music retailer in the United States. Not the largest digital retailer. The largest, ahead of…
Firefox is winning share and WebKit is winning the argument
Firefox is somewhere around seventeen or eighteen percent depending on whose measurement you trust, and every quarter it takes another point or…