This time, Apple has done a good job of keeping the next-gen iPhone a secret. Aside from some hints purportedly provided by Asian case-makers, a slip in iTunes code that suggest an ‘iPhone 4S’, and some wishful thinking about a new iPhone 5 that predicts the same approximate form factor as the MacBook Airs, we
Read More...This made the rounds about a week ago, but it’s too good to ignore. The Atlantic’s In Focus with Alan Taylor has a collection of 34 photos that underpin Vladimir Putin’s dashing social image. The former president and current prime minister of Russia has always had a colorful public face, but frankly, I had no
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Read More...Reflecting back on 9/11, I came across this over the past weekend. Worth a read even after the fact. Here’s Steve Hendrix, writing for the Washington Post: Late in the morning of the Tuesday that changed everything, Lt. Heather “Lucky” Penney was on a runway at Andrews Air Force Base and ready to fly. She
Read More...Jean-Louis Gassée on Steve Jobs: When I first met Steve, in February 1981, he was sitting cross-legged on a credenza in the Apple board room, picking his toes. Since then I’ve watched with glee as he went against received wisdom, causing pundits to have fits at every turn. I picture them as a gaggle of
Read More...Initially I thought Twitter was some gimmick through which celebrities (insert your own definition of celebrity) fed their own egos by posting snippets of their life. I didn’t care, so Twitter did not interest me much. I did not even watch Entertainment Tonight, so following some “celebrity du jour” as they tweeted arcane details of
Read More...Florian Mueller over at FOSS Patents: Judge Alsup — the federal judge presiding over this litigation — attaches a great deal of importance to that particular document. At a recent hearing, he essentially said that a good trial lawyer would just need that document “and the Magna Carta” (arguably the origin of common law) to win this case
Read More...Delaney writes: What I am saying is that I believe in me, and I believe in you and I believe in elbow grease, objectivity and history. Did you see the recession coming? Did it announce itself and tell you the date it would arrive? No, it did not. Nor will recovery. So quit whining. Pessimism is
Read More...I’ve always been a little bit of a techno-geek. While I am rarely bleeding edge, I usually like to be one of the first to embrace a new technology. Over the years, I have watched the crossover create convergence, and found myself amazed at the transition. Does anybody remember writing memorandums and actually sending (or
Read More...Economists will give elevator dissertations on the power of incentives, and the classic book Freakonomics (and its excellent podcast) often go into following the incentive trail to understand a certain behavior/non-behavior. In a recent interview, Warren Buffett gave his his own take on the power of incentives, offering forth this example to emphasize his point: “I
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