Mat Honan describes life at CES. I have to say, I feel more justified in my view of the conference now. via Daring Fireball
Category Archives: General Geek
‘Expecting A Letter From The Queen…’
Congrats to Pat and Myke for making it to episode 100 of the Enough podcast. If you don’t listen to this show, shame on you.
PlayBook OS 2.0 Surfaces
Jacob Schulman: Version 2.0 finally brings a native mail client to the BlackBerry tablet, along with calendar and contact apps. RIM also made some general aesthetic changes, and added a bulked-up version of BlackBerry Bridge and an eerily familiar “reading view” feature in the browser. Thank goodness. RIM is saved!
‘Pushing Boundaries’
It’s hard to breathe during this 20-minute interview of David Steel, Executive Vice President of Strategy for Samsung North America due to all the bullshit in the air.
Ubuntu TV Announced
Paul Miller: The surprise was ruined, but Canonical is indeed bringing a TV to CES. But it’s not about hardware just yet: Ubuntu TV is a brand new derivative of Ubuntu, with a full-in TV-optimized UI inspired by Unity, and full-on media center and DVR features. There’s a movie, TV and music store, a YouTube [...]
Smartphones are the new Cigarettes
This comic is just about perfect. via Laughing Squid
NASA Launches Open Source Projects
NASA: Today we are launching code.nasa.gov, the latest member of the open NASA web family. Through this website, we will continue, unify, and expand NASA’s open source activities. The site will serve to surface existing projects, provide a forum for discussing projects and processes, and guide internal and external groups in open development, release, and [...]
Vizio Jumping in the PC Game
These machines look familiar, though.
I Just Don’t Get CES
People who have worked with — and for — me know this about me: Half-baked work sold as a complete and acceptable solution will get under my skin every time. If the person cannot grasp that their work could even be potentially shoddy, and I’m prone to having an aneurism. I have found over the [...]
The IBM Simon
Wikipedia: Besides a mobile phone, the major applications were a calendar, address book, world clock, calculator, note pad, e-mail, and games. It had no physical buttons to dial with. Instead customers used a touchscreen to select phone numbers with a finger or create facsimiles and memos with an optional stylus. Text was entered with either [...]
