The Saddest Part Of The Whole iPhone 4 Antenna Fiasco Is How Proud Steve Jobs Was When He Introduced It
Apple’s iPhone 4 Antennagate rolls on, with the question now, What is Apple going to do about this? Is it going to let it blow over? Is it going to slash prices on its “bumper” cases to appease the affected “death grip”-phone holders? Or give them away for free? Is it going to give everyone…
Pandas and Lobsters: Why Google Cannot Build Social Applications
After researching what pandas do all day, I was struck by how panda-like we are when we use the Internet. Roaming a massive world wide web of forests, most of our time is spent searching for delicious bamboo and consuming it. 40 times a day we’ll poop something out — an email, a text message,…
In a First, Full-Sized Robo-Copter Flies With No Human Help
In mid-June, a single-turbine helicopter took off from a test field in Mesa, Arizona, avoided obstacles in-flight, scoped out a landing site and landed safely. It’s like the kind of flight choppers have made tens of thousands of times before. Except this time, the helicopter did it entirely on its own – with no humans…