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Archive for June 28th, 2009

iPhone 3GS Jailbreak Software Delayed by Dev Team (Jeremy Sikora/The iPhone Blog)

Sunday, June 28th, 2009

Jeremy Sikora / The iPhone Blog:
iPhone 3GS Jailbreak Software Delayed by Dev Team  —  Sad day it is for all of you jailbreak fiends out there.  The Dev Team has come out to let you all know not to expect a iPhone 3GS jailbreak solution any time soon.  While they do have the software […]

Reading machine to snoop on Web (Mark Rutherford/CNET News)

Sunday, June 28th, 2009

Mark Rutherford / CNET News:
Reading machine to snoop on Web  —  What if the wisdom of Web could be yours, without having to read through it one page at a time?  That’s what the military wants.  —  DARPA has hired a company to develop a reading machine to reduce the gap between the ever […]

Apple runs short of iPhones (Philip Elmer-DeWitt/Apple 2.0)

Sunday, June 28th, 2009

Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
Apple runs short of iPhones  —  The iPhone availability widget is back — new and improved — and it’s showing spot shortages of selected iPhones at Apple (AAPL) stores across the United States.  —  The availability tool, which appears on Apple’s website in times of scarcity …

Google mocks Bing and the stuff behind it (Cade Metz/The Register)

Sunday, June 28th, 2009

Cade Metz / The Register:
Google mocks Bing and the stuff behind it  —  You call this a cloud?  —  Structure 09 Google has openly ridiculed Microsoft’s entire approach to online infrastructure, while taking some wonderfully sly shots at the company’s new [decision engine] search engine.

How To Save The Newspapers, Vol. XII: Outlaw Linking (Erick Schonfeld/TechCrunch)

Sunday, June 28th, 2009

Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
How To Save The Newspapers, Vol.  XII: Outlaw Linking  —  Of all the misguided schemes put forth lately to save newspapers (micropayments! blame Google!), the one put forth by Judge Richard Posner has to be the most jaw-dropping.  He suggests that linking to copyrighted material should be outlawed.

Acer’s Everywhere. How Did That Happen? (Ashlee Vance/New York Times)

Sunday, June 28th, 2009

Ashlee Vance / New York Times:
Acer’s Everywhere.  How Did That Happen?  —  ABOUT three months ago, Gianfranco Lanci flew into San Francisco International Airport, got off the plane and made his way to the passport control stations.  As he pulled out his documents, the passport agent immediately recognized him as the chief executive of […]