In the old days, mobile phones were designed to travel with people in cars. Nowadays, the cars themselves are becoming the connected medium.
Reuters - A defiant Steve Jobs on Friday rejected any suggestion the iPhone 4's design was flawed, but offered consumers free phone cases to address reception complaints that have hurt Apple Inc's image and shares.
New York (AFP) July 16, 2010
When British climbing legend George Mallory took his iconic 1921 photo of Mount Everest's north face, the mighty, river-shaped glacier snaking under his feet seemed eternal.
Decades of pollution and global warming later, modern mountaineer David Breashears has reshot the picture at the same spot - and proved an alarming reality.
Instead of the ...
Tech guru Elliott Drucker agrees that network capacity enhancements are necessary, but he says there’s nothing preventing carriers from specifying better UE radio performance from their vendors.
Apple claimed at its press conference Friday that virtually every competing smartphone faces the same antenna challenges as the iPhone 4, but three of its competitors — HTC, RIM and Nokia — have since stood up and challenged that claim. Apple used as an example the RIM BlackBerry Bold 9700, saying that holding it a certain way will cause ...
Guest post by Cyan Banister…
This week’s episode of Speaking Of… (video below) features venture capitalist Brian Singerman from Founders Fund.
What I find fascinating about Brian’s journey is the cross over from being an engineer (There.com and creator of iGoogle) to being involved in advising and investing in businesses.
There are a few VCs with engineering backgrounds, but Brian’s from ...
Your profile photo is an important part of your online personality, offering a glimpse of you to the wider world. We've previously brought you tips for creating the perfect profile pic, and in this post we'll be looking at some great online services that can help you create a variety of fun, vintage-looking pics for your profile.So, for anyone who ...
In response to Apple’s antenna-oriented press event, Consumer Reports responded by refusing to give the Apple iPhone 4 its golden seal of approval. The consumer product ratings company commended Apple for taking a first step in solving the antenna problem but denounced Apple’s case giveaway as a limited and temporary fix. Consumer Reports states:
Consumer Reports believes Apple’s offer of free ...
After reviewing several hundred applications for the Austin-based incubator Capital Factory, Jason Cohen observed that many of the startup pitches he heard shared the same mistakes. The mistakes were so common, he suggested that by avoiding even one of the mistakes, applicants really stood out from the crowd.
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As Cohen noted, it's a result of seeing so many ...
If Apple really wanted to silence critics, they have a place to do so. I’ve now seen it with my own eyes.
Inside Apple’s headquarters in Cupertino, CA, there are a collection of rooms that house 17 giant anechoic chambers. Basically, they’re rooms where no waves (sound or electromagnetic) can reflect off of anything, so there is absolutely no interference when ...
Analyst Keith Mallinson examines Sprint Nextel’s network migration path and the choices the carrier needs to make.
RISMEDIA, July 17, 2010 - In today's real estate marketing, we are hearing the term "hyperlocal" more and more.
Contributor Andrew Seybold argues that the FCC’s concerns about wireless competition – specifically when it comes to LTE – aren’t based on reality.
Mashable - As Apple's latest TV commercials for the iPhone 4's "FaceTime" functionality dazzle us with blandness, it got us thinking about the company's ad campaigns of years gone by.
Jessica Faye Carter is an award-winning author and columnist. Her company, Nette Media develops social media technologies for women and multicultural communities, and she blogs at Technicultr.A few months ago, I wrote about how social media presents women with increased opportunities for influence and professional development. In the comments, I found a number of commenters (both men and women) who ...
Email overload is a problem that’s as common as it is difficult to solve. Fortunately, everyone know it’s a problem, and there are plenty of startups (and webmail providers themselves) looking to fix it. One recent entry to the space is AwayFind. The service, which opened to the public earlier this year, allows you to set up filters identifying ...
Okay, admittedly, this doesn’t have a lot to do with tech other than the fact that it’s on YouTube. But it’s awesome. And happens to mashup two of our favorite memes in recently memory: Double Rainbow and Hitler Is Upset.
Mike loves the Double Rainbow thing so much that he made a mashup with me, the iPhone, and the two glorious ...
I wrote about ShirtsMyWay, the design-your-own dress shirt service, last month. I've since learned about a variety of other sites providing customized products, and I'll be writing a wrap-up post about the trend toward custominzation in general some time soon. But for now, please enjoy this brief review of the shirts created by ShirtsMyWay, and learn how one lucky reader ...
Facebook will finally reach the impressive 500 million user milestone sometime this coming week. To celebrate, it'll launch "Facebook Stories," a visual memorial to all the ways the social network has changed people's lives. All Things Digital's BoomTown blog uncovered the details in an interview with Facebook marketing guru Randi Zuckerberg last week. She said that while previous announcements ...
Mashable - Apple claimed at its press conference Friday that virtually every competing smartphone faces the same antenna challenges as the iPhone 4, but three of its competitors — HTC, RIM and Nokia — have since stood up and challenged that claim.