CNET: IE 8 does have more problems than mere JavaScript engine speeds. It scores a 20/100 on the Acid3 test, the lowest of the major browsers, and the installation process still requires a reboot. There’s no default “smart” location bar that many other browsers have, although you can search your history and most visited pages [...]
Monthly Archives: March 2009
Still Falling
The New York Times: Palm has reported losses in the last seven quarters. The company, which introduced the pioneering Pilot device more than a decade ago, said on March 3 that sales declined because of dwindling orders for its older models. Man, I bet those guys are really hoping the Pre takes off when its released [...]
Apple Stores Replacing iPhone Displays
A friend of mine recently had a bright blue pixel show up – and stick – on his iPhone 3G’s touchscreen. He told me about it, and I recommended he go to his local Apple Store and see if the Genius Bar would swap the device, as it is still under warranty and had no damage. In the past, [...]
New Way to Look at March Madness
Via @danfrakes: a NCAA bracket based on the median salary of the schools’ graduates. Memphis loses in the first round of this bracket.
Should App Store Developers Jailbreak Their Devices?
Ars Technica: According to the iPhone dev team blog, the 3.0 OS firmware is jailbreakable on all devices. They have not yet issued a 3.0 jailbreak, but signs are promising for a release sooner than later. A jailbreak would open up the iPhone’s Unix chroot jail, allowing read-write access to the entire file system. Doing so on [...]
Flying Cars Are Keeping Our Childhood Dreams Alive Even Today
Ever since The Jetsons, every child dreams of flying cars. Well, our dreams are coming true. Engadget: We’re definitely psyched to hear that the “roadable aircraft” went airborne in a super-secret test flight that took place in the early hours of March 5th at Plattsburgh International Airport. The vehicle left the ground for a good [...]
Holding My Feet to the Fire
In my recent interviews with Cornfedtech, I discussed the origin of the name “ForkBombr” and neglected to tell the whole story, as I was just reminded of by Kevin Lipe. Here’s the crux of the matter: Well, I have to admit that “logic bomb” sounded cooler to me, but I figured “Fork Bomber” would make [...]
Microsoft Releases IE 8
Reuters, via Wired: New features in IE8 include right-clicking on addresses or other Web features to go straight to a map or put into a blog or other website, which Microsoft calls an “accelerator”. Users will also be able to put in keywords in the address bar to recall sites visited related to that word. [...]
Back Behind the NDA
Ars Technica: This agreement is likely to remain in place until 3.0 is released to the public. And, like the previous NDA, it makes about as little sense. Yes, the agreement prevents most public discussion of the new iPhone features but it does nothing to protect Apple’s intellectual property rights from being discovered by competitors. [...]
Apple Just Another Sony?
CNET writer David Carnoy’s posted a piece on the tech news site yesterday titled “Without Steve Jobs, is Apple Sony?” In short, no, it isn’t. But that’s too short of a post (and frankly wasn’t much fun to write), so let me elaborate on my answer. Here’s a bit from David’s article: …no one could replace Steve [...]
