Verizon’s Lowell McAdam, to BusinessWeek:
We probably worked six or nine months on the technical side of this and saw we could make this work. Then we did the commercial side. The commercial deal took us a day.
[via Mac Stories]
Category: General Tech
The Open Internet
Network neutrality is the idea that your cellular, cable, or phone internet connection should treat all websites and services the same. Big companies like AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast want to treat them differently so they can charge you more depending on what you use.
This is a great way to explain net neutrality to the non-geeky people in your life.
[via Ian P. Hines]
The GPL and the App Store
Richard Gaywood over at TUAW has posted a great, in-depth look at the issues surrounding VLC and the App Store. Be sure to check it out when you get a few minutes.
Well, I Win at the Internet
The Samsung Galaxy Tab: Yet Another Dead End Android Product
Single-core Android tablets like Samsung’s Galaxy Tab won’t meet the minimum requirements for Honeycomb, Google’s tablet-optimized operating system version, according to a manufacturer.
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Samsung’s Galaxy Tab has a 1 GHz Hummingbird processor and a 1024-by-600 resolution display. The company has previously suggested that the Galaxy Tab would update no further than the smartphone-focused Android 2.3 (“Gingerbread”), but Cha’s comments appear to seal the Tab’s fate as a rapidly aging product.
‘Let’s Do Something with the Stylus’
Looks like Asus has a killer tablet — a desktop processor, Windows 7 and a stylus. It’s like they’ve been under a rock for the last 12 months.
On Instagram
A few weeks ago, I published a piece about photo editing on the iPad. In it, I said:
…there are a class of photographers that want to do more than just put a heavy filter on top of our photos. Let us tweak — truly tweak — our photos, like we can on the desktop.
I still am frustrated with the lack of a great photo editing suite for iOS. Photoshop Express wins my vote for now, but even it is far from perfect.
The Tablet Market
There’s an iPad market, and the iPad could be classified as a tablet, from a hardware-centric viewpoint. But the market for non-iPad tablets is about as big today as it was before the iPad, which isn’t nothing, but it’s close enough to nothing that Apple doesn’t need to worry about it.
Go read (or Instapaper) this right now. Marco’s dead on — the iPad is a stand-alone product, and the tablet market is just as sad today as it was a year ago. If not more so.
On My New Homepage
Earlier today, I asked the hivemind of Twitter what I should set as my homepage in Safari. Google Reader has been my homepage of years, but I’ve switched to using Reeder all the time.
This is what several people suggested, and I have to say, it is perfect:
The PervPad
A bizarre Christmas gift mix-up brought a Marion 12-year-old more than she had on her wish list. It was not exactly a lump of coal, but a set of southern Illinois parents may have preferred that to the gift they gave their daughter.
The young girl opened her gift and got an eyeful of porn. They bought what they thought were Coby Kyros pads for their 12 and 15-year-old daughters. They are similar to the Apple iPad and Amazon Kindle. Within a couple minutes, they realized one of the devices had more than just games and email apps.
Hotmail Meltdown
Some users of Microsoft Hotmail are starting off the new year scrambling to get back e-mails of old. A chorus of frantic users has posted complaints on Microsoft’s online forum that all of their messages have disappeared.
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Others complain that the majority of the e-mail in their inboxes was sent to their deleted mail folders instead. It is unclear from the posts how widespread the problem is. The free Web-based e-mail service is the world’s most used with about 360 million users globally, according to comScore Inc.
Cultured Code’s Biggest Problem Isn’t OTA Sync
Cultured Code has a problem. And it isn’t with its products.
Yes, bashing Cultured Code’s Things family of programs has become popular. And not without good reason. The more complex OmniFocus has OTA sync. Simpler to-do managers like Remember the Milk and TeuxDeux do as well.1 In a world where most people own at least one iOS device, it’s critical to have a solution in place that makes data on all devices stay in sync. Patronizing blog posts and fancy status board updates do not a feature make.