Ummmmm, like, you’re kidding, right? Please tell me your kidding. Please????
Will you be able to unbox your own iPhone?
Posted Jun 22nd 2007 9:00AM by Michael Rose
You’ve saved your pennies, and then thought better of the whole penny-centric strategy. You’ve moved on to cashing in your savings bonds. You’ve figured out which AT&T [...]
So, it’s not just Apple that’s taking a slightly lower than high road with the immanent release of the much touted iPhone. (See related story) AT&T intends to charge you $175.00 for early cancellation despite the fact you’re not getting any kind of deal on the price of the phone. Isn’t that special!
For years cell [...]
This is an old article I found in my drafts section when I imported all of my posts from my old BlogSpot blog.
I’ve recently been lax posting to this and my other blogs. I got a new job and just don’t have as much time as I used to. But there is one [...]
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A recent survey of on-line mobile phone shoppers (by the Electronic Manufacturing Services online presence, EMSNow!) has revealed some surprising results! Nearly 60% of the people polled were interested in the iPhone, but had no intention of jumping on the bleeding edge bandwagon.
The overall initial cash output which included the cost of the toy [...]
AT&T has created 2000 temporary jobs nationwide to handle the surge in business expected with the launch of Apples iPhone. With units available exclusively at AT&T and Apple stores, there is expected to be a mad, frenzied rush for the devices.
As many of you are aware, I’m underwhelmed with the whole idea. I [...]
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I’m glad that there are at least a few similar minded folk out there with regards to the iPhone. Here is a thought provoking article which logically debunks the ’break a network’ scenario that Jobs suggested in Newsweek.
Instead it appears that P2P file sharing might be one of the causes. Hmmmmm – I [...]
With Apple maintaining a stranglehold on the code for their newest toy, many experts believe that will only fuel the hackers frenzy to crack the code. Only Apple seems to know how to write apps for it’s soon to be launched mashup of technology. And so far the only thing it’ll do that is new [...]
A Judge in New Mexico has placed a large road-block in the way of the RIAA and their sleazy tactic of filing generic lawsuits against unnamed students, trying to pry identities from Universities and ISPs. The Judge seems to think that the ability to cure the ‘irreparable harm’ stated in the lawsuits with a large [...]
Doc Searls shared a though that came through an old friend of his. I think it’s important to realize that the Internet is not ‘yet’ the end-all in information storage. There must be Hundreds of Thousands, maybe Millions of volumes of information that exist only in your local, Public Library. And [...]
In a continuation of my last post, now it seems like Congress is going to get involved and ’Hold Some Hearings’, That’ll square things away quickly, I’m sure.
Congress holds hearings on tech insecurity at DHS
Over at Wired’s Threat Level blog, Ryan Singel writes:
A House Homeland Security subcommittee is holding a hearing [today] into security [...]
Yahoo is reporting that the Department of Homeland Security has come clean and admitted to having suffered from more than 800 types of attacks on their computer systems in the last two years. These attacks included break-ins, viruses and two computers found with password stealing tools on them.
DHS acknowledges own computer break-ins
By TED BRIDIS, [...]
So far this year the Consumer Product Safety Commission has recalled 24 kinds of toys. And every one of them was manufactured in China. From the recent lead paint coated Thomas the Train series to Hasbro Easy Bake Ovens the list is getting larger each year and more disturbing.
As More Toys Are Recalled, Trail Ends [...]
The Inquirer On-Line (the respectable English Newspaper, not the tabloid rag) reports that since EMI went DRM free they have been outselling locked music by a BUNCH. Their estimates say that The Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd has seen a jump in sales somewhere between 275 and 350 PERCENT!
EMI has DRM [...]
I almost missed this: On Monday, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in Warshak v. U.S., that people have a reasonable expectation of privacy in their email, the government needs a search warrant or similar process to access it. Note that this is not talking about your employer scanning your work e-mail, rather your [...]
When AT&T acquired BellSouth last December it had to make some concessions to the FCC. One of those concessions is GREAT news for people who are in the old BellSouth service area. DSL (Digital Subscriber Line) Internet service for only $10.00 a month. But you have to know it’s available to get it at that [...]
I guess I shouldn’t be surprised, after all I was in retail for a long time. But I am a little bit concerned about the Kodak 5300. They re-entered the home inkjet printer market recently touting inexpensive ink cartridges as their major selling point.
Selling their Black cartridge for only $9.99, color for a paltry [...]
The Vatican has recently decided that it wanted to get involved in one of the more mundane day to day activities of it’s faithful. A far cry from it’s normal interference in the lives of the Catholics (of which I count my myself) the 36-page "Guidelines for the Pastoral Care of the Road" includes a [...]
In Berlin this week a 16-year-old student convinced two friends to storm his classroom and make off with the classes report cards. Like that would keep anyone from actually failing the year and not getting held back. What a dufus! And to think that normally the European education system is held in much higher regard.
Student [...]
