Touchscreen, WiFi, MicroSD Card slot for expandability and not bound to any carrier. Oh, and it runs Linux. The OpenMoko project is producing the first open-source hardware phone which will go on sale for $300 and $450 on July 9th.
There will be two models, the Neo Base and the New Advanced. Both are mainly geared [...]
Thomas Friedman has a very interesting column on the blogosphere in the New York Times today (sorry – it’s behind the paywall, but you can listen to it by subscribing to this feed):
Three years ago, I was catching a plane at Boston’s Logan airport and went to buy some magazines for the flight. As I [...]
Google just upgraded the Docs and Spreasheets products with a very nice, Windows Explorer like feature to browse documents. It almost looks as if the focus is now more on organizing documents than producing them.
Sadly, with all the upgrades, there is still no support for footnotes or endnotes. Here is my dream version of D&S: [...]
(Via Techcrunch) MizPee tells you where the closest public toilet is, including infor an disabled acccess, diaper-changing facilities and, in good Web 2.0 fashion, you can comment on the quality of your visit is well.
Now that’s what I call a useful service.
The business model seems to be adding information on local deals at stores, bars, [...]
Walt Mossberg loves the phone, but hates the network.
David Pogue loves most of the phone (and Google Maps with free traffic updates on it), but hates the network.
And it looks as if the battery charge is almost as good as Apple promised:
Apple says one battery charge is enough for 8 hours of calls, 7 hours [...]
Update: In the comments, Fleishman explains that he did not intend his article to be a review but that the New York post labeled it is such.
The New York Post’s Glenn Fleishman pretends to be the first “journalist” reviewing the iPhone:
The iPhone crams so many different features into its slightly bulky form that it [...]
Via Consumerist: Apple has revealed the rates for its iPhone and they strike me as very reasonable and the rest of the Blogosphere seems to agree.
If you already have an AT&T voice plan, you can tack on an unlimited data +200 SMS messages for $20.
The basic monthly price for a line with 200 SMS and [...]
Danah Boyd argues that there is a statistically relevant socio-economic divide between Facebook and MySpace users:
The goodie two shoes, jocks, athletes, or other “good” kids are now going to Facebook. These kids tend to come from families who emphasize education and going to college. They are part of what we’d call hegemonic society. They are [...]
RSS feeds make our world go round and Google Reader is our dealer - however, right now, the Reader is on strike.
Last night, Techcrunch reported some outages, but I didn’t see them then. This morning, however, my feeds stopped updating and now the whole page has stopped loading.
I hope they will get it up quickly, or I will [...]
Mike Arrington reports that Google might be in talks to acquire GrandCentral or possible has already closed the deal.
GrandCentral has a great service and Mike thinks it would be a good compliment to Google’s GTalk and GMail:
GrandCentral was recently pitching a second round of financing to Silicon Valley venture capitalists, but broke off discussions abruptly [...]
Sad, because it’s true (via Valleywag). Second Life – with real people.
Technorati tags: second life, sl, parody
Apple just published a 20min video giving an overview over the iPhone and its features. Just a shame that the guy narrating it has a somewhat annoying way of not moving his eyebrows and not trying to blink.
Some nice details:
Contact list doesn’t just have to be flicked up or down, there is an alphabet on [...]
It is standard business in the mobile phone industry to subsidize phones and then locking in consumers for one- or two-year contracts. The idea is that the phones are cheaper and the company makes its money back over time. If the consumer wants to cancel the contract earlier, an termination fee applies to make up [...]
Digg just updated its comment system and it is bad. Very bad. It’s is slow and not very pleasing on the eye. Daniel Burka has a good post up explaining Digg’s decision making process from the inside perspective.
Right now, the number one and two digg story of the last 24 hours are negative stories about [...]
