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As of June, Apple said it had sold six million iPhones. Last Friday
was Apple’s biggest iPhone push to date, with the phone available in
21 countries, many for the first time.

Chief executive Steve Jobs has said he plans to offer the device in 70
countries in the coming months, bringing him closer to his goal of
selling 10 million iPhones this year.

But if the stubby eyeball voiced by Billy Crystal owed an unpaid debt
to a cartoon artist best known for his Grateful Dead album covers, the
company that launched the character was indisputably the first of its
kind. It may seem a bit premature to write a history of a business
barely more than 20 years old, until we consider that in the span of a
single decade Pixar has utterly overtaken the list of top-grossing
animated films. “Toy Story,” “Finding Nemo,” “The Incredibles,”
“Ratatouille”: Anyone who has been around kids in the past decade is
well aware of the company’s runaway, inimitable success.

Books about the high-tech business have become a genre unto themselves
in recent years, with multiple titles devoted to Apple, Microsoft,
Google, and plenty of other computing success stories. Though Price
mostly stays out of the way of his subject, telling the Pixar story
briskly and with great clarity, the author has the benefit of focusing
on a company of computer nerds who happen to churn out oversize works
of mass appeal.

Lasseter’s 2 1/2-minute short film “Luxo Jr.,” about an
anthropomorphized desk lamp and its “son,” received an Academy Award
nomination in 1987. More important, it captured the imagination of the
computer graphics community. When Lasseter was approached by a
colleague after a screening, he braced for an arcane technical
question. “John,” the programmer asked, “was the big lamp the mother
or the father?”

When Rockport native Andrew Stanton made a long pitch to Lasseter
about his idea for a film called “Finding Nemo,” about a clownfish and
his journey to find his missing son, Lasseter listened politely to the
hourlong monologue, then joked, “You had me at ‘fish.’ ” By this point
in the book, the tales of the making of each new Pixar feature
(stopping short of “WALL-E,” the company’s latest instant classic)
begin to feel similarly overwrought.

But the intrigue of the merger with Disney, featuring a blood feud
between Jobs and Disney chairman Michael Eisner, resolves that problem
handily. Upon finalization of the long-gestating agreement, Lasseter
addressed an audience of several thousand Disney shareholders. His
speech, reports the author, unfolded in much the same way as a classic
Pixar script: “stretches of adventure narrative and comedy punctuated
by moments of disarming earnestness – all capped by the inevitable
happy ending.”

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Brad Stone at All Things Digital, Mr. Lyons will be moving to Newsweek
as a technology columnist in the fall.

and only a year and a half too late. It was mildly amusing for the
first six months. After that it was just an ego trip. Best of luck but
you won’t be getting any clicks from me.

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Lyons played up some of the well-known traits of Jobs and Apple, such
as the CEO’s preference for mind-altering substances earlier in his
life and the company’s obsession with secrecy, to great comic effect.
But he also wrote withering posts about other tech companies and
executives from Jobs’ point of view. The anonymous nature of the blog
sparked a in August 2007.

by July 9, 2008 4:10 PM PDT I stopped being interested once he was
unmasked. Part of the fun was not knowing who he was.
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To me, these are all the hallmarks of a journalist. But he might have
been a doctor, I supposed.

“Most journalists become famous by sucking up to people. You know,
that Bob Woodward, he even sucked up to Bush. But I became famous .
Pissing off one of the only people in the world even more powerful
than Bush.”

“I never thought of it that way, but yeah. I suppose it was. I mean,
the tech world doesn’t always have a sense of humor,” whispered the
man who called himself Dan. “They think they’re changing the world,
but they don’t stop to experience the world at all. They don’t stop to
enjoy it. Some of them are so unfriendly. Especially to us
journalists.”

“That’s it. That’s it,” he said, spilling his scotch onto his crinkly
chinos. “They’re afraid you’re going to screw them. But, at the same
time, they’re afraid you’ve got something, something that they really,
really would like to have. You know, like information. Or charisma. Or
the address of a really good, cheap lapdancing club.”

No one with the remotest humanity in tech can allow Mr. Lyons to
suffer the remainder of his days being a mere journalist.

And, from my one encounter with his depressing, narcissistic,
depressive, downtrodden being in that New York bar, this would not be
a good idea at all.

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The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs has quite likely seen the last entry as
former Forbes Magazine journalist Daniel Lyons announces the death of
his cult online persona. But will a new blog under his own name have
the same impact as the satirical postings of the Fake Steve Jobs?
Running for two years, the blog has become that rare thing: a bona
fide Internet sensation. Written by Daniel Lyons, whose day job was as
a journalist at Forbes Magazine, the blog took the form of a diary
expressed through the voice of Steve Jobs. Not the real Steve Jobs, of
course, but this hugely funny fake one instead.

The iPhone 3G doesn’t officially go on sale in the U.S. until
tomorrow, but has a hands-on review today. How? They sent a reporter
to a location where the iPhone 3G is already available. Now there’s an
iPhone 3G (Australia version) review on Engadget’s Website. What’s
more, Apple had to release the iPhone 2.0 software to customers buying
the new phone in Australia and other countries hours (or more) before
it launches here in the U.S. So, someone simply mirrored the original
download site and now iPhone 1.0 owners around the country are
updating their phones and accessing an AppStore that they weren’t
supposed to see for another 24 hours.

It really could be the end of an era. Steve Jobs will find it harder
and harder to hop on stage in his blue jeans and black turtleneck and
surprise people. His announcements will become yawners because
everyone will already know everything anyway. There’ll be no more “one
more thing”�just the one, two, and three things you were expecting.

Get more from and (plus tons more on the latest tech products, news
and solutions) in the all-new !

Adobe Flash plug-in: Adobe’s (ADBE) is no secret. To be most
effective, the Flash animation/video software would need to display
Flash content in-line with Web pages. So it would need to be a plug-in
for the iPhone’s MobileSafari browser. But Apple doesn’t let companies
make plug-ins for the browser, and might never. And even if Flash
animations/videos were to open in a separate Flash player app, it’d
still need to take a cue from Safari. Which means Adobe and Apple have
some negotiating to do.

Wi-fi hotspot creator: An app that would hijack your 3G signal and
turn it into wi-fi for your MacBook, iPod touch, or other machine to
use. If “tethering,” as this is called, is ever allowed, it’ll
probably be an add-on service that AT&T charges $30-50 a month extra
for.

Jukebox software: Which either replaces or complements the iTunes
software on the iPhone. This means that Justin Smithline — – won’t
be able to officially distribute “Instinctiv Shuffle,” a “smart
shuffle” app, which he says some 70,000 people have already downloaded
to use on hacked iPhones.

Artman, it’s worth pointing out that iPhone 2.0 is short on media apps
for two reasons: 1) It would be one thing if Apple offered customers
chance to buy songs ota from its own store. But so far, no dice. 2)
iPhone frequently described as a computer, or computing platform, that
makes calls. But standard for any computer or OS to allow any third
party to create apps – not just non-competitors.

The ePocrates Rx application for medicines is a Palm OS killer. The
fact that they’ve given it away for free will get thousands of doctors
and medical professionals to switch to OS X and pay for the ePocrates
Essentials application coming out later. Wow. Palm is really
screwed.

Maybe the death of Fake Steve Jobs has previously been exaggerated,
but the satirical blog may finally have ended with a post that says :
Just FYI, I’ll be launching a new site under my own name in the near
future. Should be next week. I’ll announce it here as soon as it’s
ready and provide a link. I hope you’ll come check it out. Meanwhile
I’ve compiled a “Greatest Hits” book for anyone who’d like a small
keepsake of the FSJ blog.

Shouldn’t that be ‘bails out again’? Didn’t he stop it before? Also, I
read that one reason he was stopping was because RSJ was looking a bit
ill, and it might be beyond the pale to make fun of someone in that
position. Can’t say I’m interested in reading RDL without his USP.

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Don’t worry if you aren’t getting an O2 iPhone – nobody else is
either. Especially if they haven’t sent their passport. (Updated;
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In his final blog, the Fake Steve writes “I’m sorry that the blog is
fizzling out. I know you’ll miss FSJ. So will I. But rest assured,
Fake Steve is not really going away. He’s just taken on a new form. As
Jimi Hendrix once said, ‘If I don’t see you no more in this world,
I’ll meet you on the next one, but don’t be late’.”

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technology correspondent. .

The Oyster system used on London’s transport network is hit by a
fault, rendering the cards inoperable on Saturday morning.

Steve Jobs struck it rich early in life, and bought himself a mansion.
But he kept it nearly empty because he couldn’t bear substandard
furnishings. He slept on a mattress on the floor and hung a few
photographic prints on the wall.

He was booted from the company he founded for, among other things,
becoming a pain in the neck; then, was brought back for an unusual,
glorious second act, when he pioneered the iMac, iPod and iPhone,
which took Apple into new fields, dominating the music industry and
edging into cellphones and handhelds.

But he is also an enthusiast for consumer devices – an elitist who can
put himself in the shoes of average people who will use his gadgetry,
and figure out exactly what they will need (and, just as importantly,
what they don’t need, which is stripped away, in favour of the
simplicity he craves in their honour).

“Jobs has carefully designed this ‘unpacking routine’ for each and
every Apple product. The iMac packaging was designed to make it
obvious how to get the machine on the Internet and included a
polystyrene insert specifically designed to double as a prop for the
slim instruction manual,” Mr. Kahney writes.

The book is not laid out as a management guide. It has a few themes -
focus, despotism, perfectionism, elitism, passion, and inventive
spirit – that interweave, as each gets a chapter with lots of
anecdotes to make them come alive. It’s pleasurable reading, and Mr.
Jobs’ style will spur all of us to question what works and doesn’t in
our own approach.

Just In: Tribal Business School (Jossey-Bass, 138 pages, $37.99) looks
like National Geographic rather than a leadership manual as social
entrepreneur Jo Owen goes on a series of journeys to tribes in Papua
New Guinea, Tuareg in the Sahara, Saami in the Arctic, and nomads in
Mongolia looking for the secrets to survival and success – and how
that translates to business.

) 2 comments (Page 1 of 1) by July 9, 2008 4:47 PM PDT On the AMD-
Intel issue, I think that Intel has the upper hand now in its line of
processors and is trying to secure this hold by expanding to the
mobile graphics market. I really think that solar cells need just a
bit more efficiency to get it over the edge where everyone will want
(virtually) free power. More than anything,we need better battery
technology. We need more power storage and preferably in a non-
exploding package (we all remember the Apple/Dells/Sony exploding
laptops.)P.S. I like how you refer to your XBox as “she” as in “she
died.” Reply to this comment by July 11, 2008 2:02 PM PDT Further on
the MD-Intel issue. People have to agree that Intel currently has the
upper hand. But I can not agree that you definitevely say that the
game is over. AMD came from nothing to have the lead in for a time.
They have the opprotunity to do it again, BUT IO have to agree that
they need to get new management to do it. In order to keep Intel
honest and keep their prices down, and we all know Intel prices have
always been higher, you need someone like AMD there to keep the
pressure on. Reply to this comment

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New York (NY) – Daniel Lyons, the man behind the Fake Steve Jobs
blog, is hanging up his keyboard and heading to bigger and better
things. In his last post, titled “I’m sailing away”,
Fake Steve says Real Dan was given administrative access to the blog
and has now locked out fake Steve. But Lyons assures loyal fans that
Fake Steve isn’t completely going away.Started in 2006, the FSJ
blog has become immensely popular and Lyons has become somewhat of a
web personality. The former senior editor for Forbes started the blog
to stay busy and now sells FSJ-branded shirts and books through the
site. Some people may remember Lyons as the staunch defender of SCO in
its patent battle against IBM. He later aplogized and told readers
that he was duped by SCO executives.By all accounts the blog was doing
great until everyone discovered the real identity of Fake Steve. The
site’s last big hurrah was when Fake Steve was
‘served’ with a fake lawsuit from Apple. For a few days,
other blogs were speculating whether lawsuit was real or just an
elaborate stunt to draw more readers. Even now, people are wondering
if Fake Steve is really quiting, but that’s the price you pay for
writing a multiple-personality, Jekyll and Hyde website.Lyons admits
that he may have overstayed his welcome and says that he’s sorry
for the blog “fizzling out”. However he assures readers
that Fake Steve isn’t really going away. “He’s just
taking on a new form,” Lyons said.
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Steve Jobs is the archetype of the guy who thinks of the obvious and
gets rich from it. From the Mac to the iPhone, the great products seem
so self-evident once they are released that some personal technology
enthusiasts can’t help but say, “I wish I had thought of that.” For
people who write about Apple, at least this one, I wished I had
thought of . Since 2006, Dan Lyons has been writing in the caricatured
persona of Steve Jobs, often seeming to channel the iconic CEO.

With the iPhone 2.0 software and the introduction of the iPhone 3G,
users can now geotag their photos. Unfortunately, Apple has apparently
made a little bit of a boo-boo and is sticking everyone on the
opposite side of the world. Hello from Asia, also known as Chicago!

Many are sure to miss Daniel Lyons’ work but it is just a matter
of time before he’ll start growing tired of the rather boring
technology news and come up with a new and exciting character.

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Really need to acquire a sense of humour, set yourself up as a guru of
technology and you are going to get a few brick bats thrown at you, if
not the whole rotting vegetable stall, and deservedly so. Grow up and
deal with it.

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The secret diary of the Fake Steve Jobs has reached its final page.
Author Dan Lyons announced real plans to give up on the blog, as he
prepares to move away to a new job.
Lyons, currently working at Forbes, is getting ready to move on to
Newsweek starting this fall. He could’ve taken with him as well, but
it seems he prefers to elave the charatecter behind:

In addition, Lyons is currently working on a new site as well. At
present time, RealDanLyons is still on its default settings, but
should be up and running in the very near future:

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Shoppers were lined up at Apple stores in KC and around the nation to
buy the latest version of Jobs’ iphone. The cost: $199. But wait a
minute.

The first iphone sold last year was $499. That price was so outlandish
that Jobs a few months later felt obliged to offer what were
essentially rebate checks to the saps — I mean “customers” — who
bought the first version.

Note that your two favorite pieces of trailer trash used campaign
money to buy two of the what you call outlandishly priced versions of
the Iphone for themselves.

Lyons will be taking most of the summer off to spend time with his
family, including his young twins, and will start work at around Labor
Day. He told me that Newsweekwas initially very excited about Fake
Steve Jobs coming to the newsweek.com site, and were disappointed to
hear that he had decided to shut down FSJ — but are still supportive
of his decision.

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When Apple’s Steve Jobs unveiled the new iPhone back in June, he
promised us that the upgraded version would be in Jobs’ claims about
the new phone’s supposed superiority.

Yes, the new iPhone will cost half of what the old one did. But to get
the $199 discounted rate, you have to sign a two-year contract with
AT&T;—which is fine, except that the carrier has jacked the
monthly fee for unlimited data by $10 bucks a month. Do the math and
you find that you end up spending $240 more over the course of the
contract, or $40 more than the $200 Apple slashed off the front end.
Throw in text messaging—a necessity these days, and not included
in the unlimited data plan—and you’re even deeper in the hole.

yes, you should buy it. you should always base your purchases on the
opinions of random strangers encountered while spamming websites.

Federal and state authorities have thus far declined to prosecute
Jobs, or any current members of Apple, after an internal investigation
cleared the CEO, but the , Apple’s former general counsel, for
allegedly covering up the backdating.

by July 2, 2008 2:15 PM PDT Microsoft paid for their crimes of heavy
handed business tactics, how come Jobs gets a free ride from his
Crimes. He’s more corrupt then Gates and Ballmer combined!!! Reply to
this comment by July 2, 2008 5:31 PM PDT What about CNet’s own stock
option backdating scandal. Maybe *thats* the reason for the kit-glove
handling of this news. Option backdating is in many cases simply
fraud, saying that it is not illegal as long as it is not disclosed
oversimplifies the underlying problem of this practice. Reply to this
comment by July 2, 2008 6:02 PM PDT I just don’t understand!”Vogel and
Mahoney claim that the disclosure chopped $7 billion worth of
shareholder value from Apple’s stock”With this, they just make more
harm, than good and they saying they doing this for the
shareholders.Somebody should sue them, because they push done the
share price with this! Reply to this comment
by July 2, 2008 7:03 PM PDT This is amazing…it’s makes no sense!
Backdating is not illegal!!!! We went through this 2 years ago. Let’s
get this straight…these idiots are suing because when it was
announced that they backdated, they lost some value and they sold
their stock. Well, friends, if you can’t stand to lose money, stay out
of the stock market! If they were doing something illegal, then that’s
a problem. But the SEC already cleared them. But then again, why not
sue? The upside for the lawyers is huge, but they only have to spend
comparatively little money to prosecute the suit. Apple’s lawyers will
be busy, so the system feeds itself and basically keeps the lawyers in
business.
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At the start of the 21st century, there’s no tech outfit more
influential than Apple. CNET News.com’s Tom Krazit will attempt to
make sense of the rumors, hype, products, and people that will shape
the future of the company. But Apple’s not the only game in town, as
the established cell phone companies strike back against the iPhone,
and chipmakers try to figure out how to move past PCs and slip into a
little something more comfortable. Email Tom at .

Dan Lyons, the man behind Fake Steve Jobs is shutting down the blog:
“I know you’ll miss FSJ. So will I. But rest assured, Fake Steve is
not really going away. He’s just taking on a new form. As Jimi Hendrix
once said, If I don’t see you no more in this world, I’ll meet you on
the next one, but don’t be late.” Valleywag has a bit of speculation ]

Does anyone else think that he doesn’t strike much similarity to
Steve? Maybe it’s the lack of the 5 o’clock shadow and black
turtleneck…

@LindsayJoy’s MBP is into S+M: Ignore him -> bobdobbs “If it’s okay
with you, I’m going to continue to worship you for your body”: I may
have to appreciate that you have a mind — No slight intended….

updated . Attorneys involved in defending various participants said
the Justice Department concluded no charges should be brought against
Jobs or anyone else invovled in the backdating. The Securities and
Exchange Commission, however, is still pressing a civil complaint
against former Apple lawyer Nancy Heinen.

AMD to take huge charge: in the second quarter to write down the value
of goodwill for its acquisition of graphics chip maker ATI
Technologies. The write-downs amount to more than $800 million in lost
goodwill, and are an addition to a $1.6 billion goodwill write-off AMD
took last year. You could say that AMD paid a little too much when it
bought ATI for $5.4 billion in 2006. AMD will report its second
quarter results next Thursday.

Rambus adds to Nvidia’s headaches: that its results for the
second quarter would be weaker than expected, and it took a $150
million to $200 million write-off for product defect problems.

reported that Thomas, who has not been involved in the company since
2004, was disraught and his family hasn’t heard from him since
June 30. Meanwhile, the company appointed Frederick Ball as its chief
financial officer.

After months of speculation and anticipation, the Apple iPhone 3G is
finally out. New Zealanders had reason to rejoice as a fellow citizen
became the first owner of the latest avatar of the iconic product,
well the first one from the stores, that is. One can be sure that
Apple CEO Steve Jobs already has one, since he unveiled it to an
adoring audience on 9 June. (See: )

A visibly excited Johnny Gladwell, after buying the first iPhone 3G
sold, said, “I’m going to put this on charge, have a play around with
it, and have a nice long sleep.” His desire for sleep is
understandable, considering he had spent more than 60 hours camping
outside the Vodafone store in freezing temperatures before he could
get his hands on the object of his desire.

In its home country, the phone was available as the clock struck eight
across different time zones. Apple plans to sell its 8-gigabyte iPhone
for $199 in the US and the 16-gigabyte version for $299.

The company, based in Cupertino, California, says it has sold about 6
million iPhones since last year. It has said its goal is to sell 10
million by the end of 2008.

-On Friday, Rogers’ registry networks crash simultaneously with
Apple’s iTunes registering system after the new iPhone is unveiled.
Outage lasts into the afternoon at some locations.

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At ten to midnight, Jonny Gladwell folded his chair and put away the
things that had kept him busy over the last two and a half days.

After two and a half days queuing up in front of the store, the 22
-year-old Devonport student’s long hours of waiting were close to
being over.

‘It was a good idea that we had the security guards but I
don’t think we needed them. There was one incident but it was
nothing serious. I never feared for my life although there might have
been times when I had to stand up for myself’, commented Evert
Bruyns, the second person in line.

The first person to enjoy Evert’s generosity was Harrison
Gulliver, a 15-year old boy that went to the Vodafone store on
Thursday with his pocket money determined to get the latest Apple
gadget. Thanks to Evert’s kindness, Harrison can keep his pocket
money and took home a free iPhone offered by someone he had never seen
before.

Cheerleaders, a DJ from George FM broadcasting live, free chocolates
and ice cream were on hand in Auckland to make people forget about the
cold temperatures.

McCulloch, 23, who was among the first in the world to own the new
generation device, started the queue for the iPhone outside Vodafone’s
Colombo Street store at 8am yesterday.

Hours earlier, a lone figure outside the shop, she said: “I’ve had a
few people ask me if I was waiting for the iPhone but some people have
asked me if I was protesting or something.”

She had been planning to buy one of the phones since the new-
generation model was announced by Apple chief executive Steve Jobs
about a month ago.

A spokesperson for Vodafone said that they were unable to provide
specific numbers of how many phones were made available for the first
night but added that the stocks were “strictly limited”.

So much for a competitive telecommunications market. Lets hope others
comming in Nov/Dec have a more realistic approach to servicing their
customers, this includes Telecom… Disappointed really

What people, waiting for a phone for 16 hours… spend that time in
work you get some money to pay for your bread and petrol….

I thought Apple wanted a large market share before Google Android is
released? Maybe someone forgot to tell Vodafone NZ.

To the “yawn” and “boring” comments; If this is how you feel why are
you even bothering to read these articles? Let alone reply to them.

I think I was the first to purchase in New Zealand; I bought mine at
12:00am on the Vodafone online shop, and have the reciept to prove
it…..and did not have to stand outside for two days….!

the phone is worth it weight in gold but best on an open plan , all
the best to iphone buyers out there, you will love the phone

how stupid to sit in the cold and wait till the shops open to buy a
phone the bit that makes me laugh they cant wait to spend 3000 dollars
a year to run the stupid thing more money than sence

I can’t believe people are actually willing to fork out a tone of
money for the iPhone 3G. Pretty overrated! I’ll stick with my ipod
touch and laptop thanks! Congrats to anyone who got the phone today
but hopefully you won’t be getting any regrets when your bills start
coming in! lol…..

This is silly, what a waste of money. In 6mths this thing will be
worth half the price and there will be so many better “I” like phones
available. I imagine a lot of people buying these can’t actually
afford them (just want the latest gadget….), just adds to the huge
amount of NZ debt.

It was a nice atmosphere in the Queen Street queue. Vodafone supplied
coffee, burgers and soft drink.

If it was practical to use you could see the whole webpage at once
without zooming in. What burning need would someone have to internet
browse on a pathetic small sceen at a cost of $250 per month ?. Mabey
for business purposes but then youd have a laptop. iPhone is for poser
simple,ooooooooooooooo look at my iPhone, look how pretty it is.

Man I’m soooo behind. I haven’t even bought an i-pod yet. Although i
would have i-lost or i-washed it by now anyway.

Iphone is just an average smartphone that Nokia have made ages ago
although it isn’t touch screen but hey its not worth lining up just to
buy it.

Costing so much on the vodafone plan and lining up to buy one.Are
people thick or something?

What a joke about prices. Vodafone Australia has the phone $69 a
month, gets $310 credit, 250mb, other extras and the phone costs $199.
I heard in NZ to get the phone for aroudn $199, you have to be locked
into a plan that costs $250 a month.

I was considering buying an iPhone, but as I have an aversion to
having my eyeballs ripped from their sockets, I’m just going to wait
and see.

It’s a shame really, because if Vodafone really understood the product
and the market, they could have made a killing.

I see the sales frenzy for the iphones towards snaging customers into
premium prices, I was one of the first people to crack a iphone 3G in
the world so the iphone can work on pre-pay/contract/anything that
supports GSM/CDMA/EVDO/TRI-BAND/3G-4G.

LoL i don’t see what is so good about the iphone – Nokia make a better
phone that does more. I’m holding out for the iToaster!.

Steve & Barry’s LLC, the New York-based discount seller of clothing
lines by celebrities, listed debts and assets of $500 million to $1
billion in Chapter 11 documents filed yesterday in U.S. Bankruptcy
Court in Manhattan.

Yoneda said the store had a successful grand opening, is doing
extremely well, and continues its promotion of $9.98 or less for every
item in the store, including the new Wonderwall surf-and-skate
collection by Hawaii waterman Laird Hamilton.

Steve & Barry’s founders and CEOs, Steve Shore and Barry Prevor,
opened their first store in 1985 with the mission of providing
affordable, quality clothing.

“This mission has grown beyond our wildest dreams, providing our
customers with 80 million units of affordable clothing and accessories
during the past year alone, including products designed and endorsed
by celebrities who have believed in our vision,” Shore and Prevor said
in a statement.

Since mid-2007, difficult credit markets caused delays in store
openings and landlord reimbursements for store-opening expenditures
advanced by the company, creating cash shortages.

Steve & Barry’s has opened 276 retail stores in 39 states. All are
still open and doing business as usual, according to a company
statement.

In particular, its exclusive branded lines of merchandise created with
high-profile entertainers and athletes have performed exceptionally
well.

Peering into the tea leaves, Troubleshooter predicts two lines forming
at Sydney’s new House of Apple worship. The first will consist of the
Steve Jobs faithful eager to receive the blessed sacrament of iPhone
from July11.

The other will be lost sheep of the flock, doubters of the faith,
clutching Apple products that have lost their shine and hoping for a
miracle healing by a laying of hands from the company’s experts – or
at least an explanation of why their tech toy went toes up.

The latter line will include people such as Jonathan Ogilvie, who
wrote in response to last week’s tale of Jon Biddell and his G4
PowerBook laptop. Biddell’s PowerBook was one of many plagued with
vertical coloured lines on the screen after the 12-month warranty
expired. This seems a common problem for 43cm PowerBooks with serial
numbers beginning with 45. They are built by a Shanghai subcontractor.

Ogilvie also has a question that our own audience of genius readers
may be able to solve: that on the new drive he can change the player’s
DVD region coding only a handful of times. “Given that my work
requires me to buy a lot of DVDs that have been mastered overseas,
this is a real problem. Any advice on how to get around this issue
would be appreciated.”

“She examined the service history of the laptop and was ’shocked’ that
the customer-service agent who took my original call back in January
didn’t offer to repair the laptop immediately due to its less-than-
stellar service history. She asked me to take it to the Apple service
centre of my choice where Apple would arrange a complete repair at no
charge.”

Can’t get satisfaction from your ISP? New laptop on the fritz? Mobile
phone provider driving you nuts? Tell us your problem and we’ll try to
help: email troubleshooter@smh.com.au or see
www.smh.com.au/troubleshooter.

In watching a Webcast of the iPhone introduction I heard Steve Jobs
mention the “cloud” when talking about the new Mobile Me service Apple
is rolling out. When he says the data is pushed from the cloud what
exactly does that mean?

It became common to talk of pushing data “into the cloud” to represent
using the internet to send files to and from servers and Web sites.

Companies like Apple that sell storage “in the cloud” might not even
own the storage servers. They can lease the storage from large data
centers in more than one place. That way, adding more capacity is
quite easy. All those storage facilities can be combined into one
“virtual” server that grows as demand dictates.

IBackup is the preferred online storage and backup service of choice
for SMBs for its ease of use, security and value. Offers automated
backup and restore, file selection and securiy.

For a period of nine months, between September 2007 and the end of May
2008, Steve Wilhite, the man who brought us the “Drivers Wanted”
campaign in 1995 at VW and the “Shift_” ad platform at Nissan, was
without a daily job. His name was part of the rumor mill, of course,
some having him packing up for Dearborn, Mich., to handle the Ford job
that Jim Farley eventually landed as head of marketing. Others had him
going to General Motors to shore up its marketing. Instead, Wilhite
confounded many in May by accepting the job as president of Jumpstart
Automotive Media, an automotive interactive agency that works with
automakers and third party auto Web sites with the goal of maximizing
their Web marketing. The 1998 Brandweek Marketer of the Year came to
the job at San Francisco-based Jumpstart still smarting from a rocky
13 months as COO of Hyundai, during which he failed to meet U.S. sales
goals that some experts regarded as improbable. After stepping down at
Hyundai, Wilhite spent some time at a home he owns in New Zealand,
“decompressing and relaxing,” he said. He read books, hiked, swam and
lived a marketing-free life. Wilhite met withBrandweeksenior reporter
Steve Miller last week to talk about his gigs, old and new, as well as
the state of the auto industry as a whole. Brandweek: What made you
decide to go with Jumpstart? Steve Wilhite:I had been in touch with
Mitch [Lowe, CEO of Jumpstart] for some time. When I left Hyundai, the
second call I got was from Mitch to talk about a role for me at
Jumpstart. But I wasn’t ready. He sent me e-mails every couple of
weeks and finally I just thought that this was a pretty interesting
opportunity. I’ve worked in some very big environments and I was not
sure I wanted to go back to that. The online place is where people are
headed and need to be. BW:An eMarketer study last month noted that the
automotive category has dropped to No. 2 in overall ad spend, behind
retail. Are some auto marketers still reluctant to plunge into
digital? SW: There are three dynamics at play in this drop. One, there
is this constant pressure at the auto companies to reduce spending and
to migrate from communication to incentives, like just advertising the
money off on the hood. Second, automakers and their agencies haven’t
been as strategic as they could be in balancing their marketing
portfolios. That has to do with a number of things. There are prior
relationships in place for one thing, and there is a higher level of
comfort with traditional media that is hard to overcome. Finally, you
have to see that retail is a huge category and more people in retail
marketing are hip to interactive. BW:New auto sales this year are
headed for their lowest total in over a decade. Some of it is a
function of the economy, some is that vehicles are better built and
last longer. But some of it has to be the fault of marketing. What is
the biggest marketing mistake being made collectively by the auto
industry? SW:The auto industry used to be the most powerfully branded
category in the world. Each company had different characteristics and
communicated those at every opportunity. The tipping point came when
Lee Iacocca said, ‘Buy a car and get a check,’ [the rebate] promotion
in the early ’80s. The whole focus of marketing resources changed. The
money went to deal-oriented advertising, and then we began to see the
erosion of brand loyalty and the commoditization of brands. I mean,
really, for God’s sake, stop discounting products and extending these
low financing terms. BW:Who are some auto brands that are still
keeping their image upright today? SW:BMW, ‘the ultimate driving
machine’, still works. Mini still has a powerful position. They
changed agencies and still maintained incredible clarity. Porsche is
still a strong brand. Honda has managed to stay ahead with its brand.
When everyone was making SUVs and bigger engines, Honda was out with
4-cylinder engines, an environmentally friendly image and fuel
economy. That has always resonated, and now look at what it’s doing.
It has a bigger buyer group than ever. Toyota has stood for quality,
durability and reliability for a long time. Then they bring out Prius
and, in addition to the brand’s other attributes, it now has social
responsibility and engineering innovation. BW:So in building a brand,
what role does online play? And how do you envision the perfect way to
use online ads when someone is buying a car? SW: I’m not arguing the
effectiveness of TV and it is true that every marketer has a limited
budget. And we are fighting for our share of the portfolio. But online
has the most potential to reach the engaged buyer. I recently bought
an Audi A3. Now what should happen is that I go to Edmunds.com and
look at the car and get my information. But I got there and all I saw
were three ads that took me to Audi USA’s Web site. But I’m already
deeper into the buying funnel than that, a consumer doesn’t want to go
back to the home page of Audi. What can be done is an Audi factory ad
at the top of the page with maybe three cool factoids about the A3.
Then on one side a regional dealer association ad, maybe talking about
lease programs and a map showing some dealerships. Then one more ad
from a local dealer near me. That’s how it should work. But it
doesn’t, at least not right now. BW:You’ve had a number of high
profile jobs at some of the top companies in the U.S. and abroad. Any
of them you still think about? SW:Apple was the one I lingered over
leaving. But it was tough to be the marketing guy under Steve Jobs. He
would work on a particular curve to the iPod for three days straight,
no sleep. He was the smartest and most inspiring guy I ever worked
with.

Face time is quality time… That’s why more and more brands are
adding or increasing the use of events in their marketing mix.

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Happy news for Apple, CEO Steve Jobs (shown above in mid-victory
dance) and former Apple CFO Fred Anderson and former general counsel
Nancy Heinen, who’ve all managed to dodge quite a legal bullet.
Presumably it will be quite a bit more difficult for the civil suits
filed against them to succeed with no criminal charges being filed.

John Paczkowski has been poking fun at the tech industry and the
personalities that drive it since 1997. From 1999 to 2007, he wrote
the award-winning tech news Web log Good Morning Silicon Valley for
the San Jose Mercury News, Silicon Valley’s daily newspaper.

It is with great self-interest that I ask you to accept this letter as
my official resignation from Yahoo! My last day here will be the best
day of my life …

D is unlike any other executive conference. Since its debut in 2003, D
has brought to life the energy and excitement of the digital
revolution in an unscripted, upfront and unparalleled way.

In a letter to Yahoo shareholders, Icahn said: “Steve (Ballmer) made
it clear to me that if a new board were elected, he would be
interested in discussing a major transaction with Yahoo, such as
either a transaction to purchase the “search” function, with large
financial guarantees or, in the alternative, purchasing the whole
company.”

Microsoft could if it were to go directly to Yahoo’s investors with a
tender offer and work in tandem with Icahn’s proxy battle.

There might be an apples-and-oranges vibe when it comes to comparing
social-platform developers with iPhone developers, but the money
factor could easily make some of them willing to bridge the gap. For
small-time developers, it’s become increasingly tough to make a buck
or two from applications on Facebook’s platform, where the easiest
route to cash is ad impressions.

While the launch of the new iPhone App Store went fairly smoothly, the
migration of Apple’s .Mac service to the new MobileMe service
apparently . The scheduled changeover of users’ .Mac accounts to
MobileMe, or .Me accounts, was scheduled for 6 p.m. to midnight PDT
Wednesday. The migration was then pushed back to 8 p.m. to 2 a.m.

But Thursday at 11 a.m. PDT, neither service was accessible, at least
to several people in San Francisco. Reader Deidre Wyeth also
complained that .Mac account photos were inaccessible Thursday, and
instead the site redirected to the Apple.com/MobileMe page.

If you aren’t like the throngs of shoppers with iPhone fever, there
are plenty of alternatives that offer similar style and features. And
they may even be easier on your wallet in the long run.

Kaminsky decided to gather the affected parties and discuss it with
them first. Without disclosing any technical details, he said, “the
severity is shown by the number of people who’ve gotten onboard with
this patch.” On March 31, Kaminsky said 16 researchers gathered at
Microsoft to see whether they understood what was going on, as well as
what would be a fix to affect the greatest number of people worldwide,
and when they would issue this fix.

Google is battling a similar specter by using an e-mail authentication
technology to in order to steal usernames and passwords. The
technology, DomainKeys, uses cryptography to verify the domain of the
sender of an e-mail. It allows e-mail providers to validate the domain
from which an e-mail originates, and it enables easier detection of
phishing attempts by helping identify abusive domains.

Meanwhile, Microsoft issued a security advisory warning about in the
ActiveX control for the Snapshot Viewer in the Microsoft Access
database management system.

Basically, an attacker would have to lure a victim, via a link in an
e-mail or IM for instance, to a specially crafted Web page that could
exploit the security hole to allow remote code execution. This would
provide the attacker with as much access to and rights on the computer
as the logged-in user has.

The ActiveX control, which allows a user to view an Access report
snapshot without having the standard or run-time versions of Microsoft
Office Access, ships with the standalone Snapshot Viewer and with all
supported versions of Microsoft Office Access except for Microsoft
Office Access 2007.

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I have read a few of the FSJ things recently, but I thought it was
pretty funny!

Our campaign saw Jobs outlining Apple’s environmental policies. He
also unveiled the greener MacBook Air this year which is free from
mercury and arsenic. He has also promised to get rid of PVC and BFRs
by the which he should have done starting with the iPhone 3G launched
today. Apple has missed this golden opportunity and we’re going to
keep a close watch on what Apple does to keep its promises.

Apple Inc. shares fell for a third consecutive day on Friday, not long
after the technology company unveiled to great fanfare its new-and-
improved iPhone. So why the setback?

But bloggers have been quick to point out that Mr. Jobs battled
something far more serious – pancreatic cancer – in 2003,
and did not disclose his condition until nine months after the
diagnosis. This has fed concerns that he is, once again, concealing
something once again, and these concerns appear to be affecting
Apple’s share price now.

Submitted by on Mon, 06/16/2008 – 2:10pm.
The pop culture site is a great way to kill an hour online. Among
features such as “Commies and Russkies and Arabs,Oh My! Tracking ‘the
enemy’ in Hollywood” and “The Daily Video: The Gratuitous Profanity
Song,” you will find the oh-so-important Fame-o-Meter. The
Fame-o-Meter is Radar’s “real-time buzz index.” It determines a
person’s fame by measuring how many times the person’s name appears
online.

In the “i” world (where “i” stands for, take your pick: IT, Internet,
information technology, iPhone), rich boys Bill Gates and Steve Jobs
are battling it out for top honors. Jobs was beating at Gates at 3:42
p.m. ET on Monday but by 5:52, Gates had pulled out in front. As of
the time of this post, in the past 7 days, online references to Gates
have totaled 496 million and references to Jobs trail a little at 397
million. In the past 30 days, despite iPhone mania, Gates tallied 1.95
billion references online with Jobs coming in at 1.56 billion. But
Jobs popularity is surging and Radar seems to think that Jobs will
usurp the Gates for the No. 1 spot, and soon.

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In any case, I did a particularly jumpy video of the doings at one of
Apple’s most famous stores, as legions of New Yorkers waited in
line for their cheaper, faster, prettier iPhone.

Kara Swisher started covering digital issues for The Wall Street
Journal’s San Francisco bureau in 1997 and also wrote the BoomTown
column about the sector. With Walt Mossberg, she co-produces and co-
hosts D: All Things Digital, a major high-tech and media conference.

AllThingsD.com is a Web site devoted to news, analysis and opinion on
technology, the Internet and media. But it is different from other
sites in this space. It is a fusion of different media styles,
different topics, different formats and different sources.

Thursday, July 03, 2008 – 10:12 AM EDT
“Pity whoever has to follow Steve Jobs at Apple,” Brian Caulfield
writes for Forbes. “Not every great company stumbles into oblivion
after the departure of a visionary founder. The problem: Jobs has left
once before, and until he came back, it looked like Apple would be one
of those companies.” “Whether a leadership transition takes place 12
months from now or two decades from now, picking a Jobs successor is a
tricky task. ‘When you’re dealing with someone who really is a genius,
it’s not like you can say, ‘Let’s go find ourselves another genius,”
says Patrick Sweeney, executive vice president at Caliber, an
organizational consulting firm,” Caulfield writes. “The first time
that Jobs tried to share leadership of Apple was a disaster. Pepsi
President John Sculley, whom Jobs had picked as a mentor, ousted him
in 1985–and the company began to crumble. Only when Jobs returned,
about a decade later, was Apple able to surge from a computing also-
ran to an innovator able to crank out products that shattered the
status quo,” Caulfield writes. “Books have been written about why that
happened. But here’s one intriguing thread: Sweeney says Jobs is the
ultimate ‘ideational’ personality–someone able to find the links
between seemingly unrelated ideas fluidly. The result is a company
that has transitioned from strength to strength, moving from the Mac,
to the iPod, to the iPhone.” Caulfield writes, “Sculley could not
create products that Apple customers didn’t know they wanted. Nor did
Apple succeed under the sort of sharp-penciled manager able to turn a
troubled company into a booming business. Gil Amelio, who cut costs
and ground his way to profitability at National Semiconductor.”
Caulfield writes, “Apple will need much more than a skilled manager.”
Full article, in which Caulfield reports that “Jobs seems to have
assembled a smartly functional team,” .
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What? Jobs is being fired because he has cancer? OMG!!! RUN IN
PANIC!!! DUMP ALL YOUR STOCK SHARES!!! SOMEBODY CALL JIM CRAMER!!!
HURRY BEFORE THE STOCK PRICE GOES ANY HIGHER!!!

Team? Team? Who’s leading the team? No “team” ever succeeded without
leadership. Caulfield points out the obvious – there is no one able
and willing to assume the position of Great huckster and Tyrant (i.e
CEO Steve Jobs). I suppose Caufield believes that a CEO at Apple is as
obsolete as a PPC-based Sno’ Leopard. Apple has nothing left when Jobs
dies but design by consensus and innovation by popular vote from the
Keystone cops of Cupertino. Talk about lack of direction, purpose, and
motivation. Since the link supplied by MDN does not work, I reckon the
one person Caufield did not interview was Jobs himself. Still, I doubt
that Jobs would reveal his choice for CEO, that would take all the
attention away from him an his ego could not stand for someone else
getting more press than himself. That would make Jobs as irrelevant as
System 9.

NCIceman, Either way I’m sure Jobs will pick and train someone
eventually. “Will”, future tense fanboi, eh, fanboi? Keep clickin’ yer
heels, Dorothy. If Plan A doesn’t work, there’s always . Maybe one of
you fanbois would want to be a “donor”.

Love how they check out their facts “Apple Chief Operating Officer
Phil Schiller” isn’t that Mr Cook?? Mr. Schiller is in charges of
sales and marketing “while Jobs was out in 1994 for cancer surgery. “
I thought he was out running Next in 94?

@ha ha ha Really? To believe a large corporation has a plan in place
to eventually replace it’s CEO? That seems unlikely to you? Doesn’t it
seem like wishful thinking on the part of a mindless troll to dream
that a company will just dissolve once it’s CEO leaves? Nothing but
memories? Who is to say the person who they are grooming to be the
next CEO isn’t as good or better than Jobs? Or do you think that he
actually does all the work at Apple? Poor, sad little troll, you’ve
made my day. LOL

@ Denny The smell of troll fear was just too much for me to resist.
Poking them with sticks is awfully fun!

twodales, Ah, the consummate fanboi. “Please, please, MDN, only give
me tripe, only feed me the sweet syrup of irrationality, the gooey
goodness of wishful thinking, the succulent dessert of mindless
propaganda, the detectible edibleness of nonsense, the mind-numbing
flavor of foolishness.” You really don’t have to read my posts, but
you seem inexorably drawn to them. Why?

@ Ha,Ha,Ha, Another Microsoft troll. They keep crawling out of the
woodwork. “Team? Team? Who’s leading the team? No “team” ever
succeeded without leadership. ” So, how do you explain why Microsoft
keeps cludgeing on. ??? They have been missing leadership for years
now. LOL en

@ Ha Ha Ha, “Ah, the consummate fanboi. “Please, please, MDN, only
give me tripe, only feed me the sweet syrup of irrationality, the
gooey goodness of wishful thinking, the succulent dessert of mindless
propaganda, the detectible edibleness of nonsense, the mind-numbing
flavor of foolishness.” This boy is talking about Microsoft and its
“next” operating system??? I am so confused. LOL “You really don’t
have to read my posts, but you seem inexorably drawn to them. Why?”
Like watching an impending train wreck, we are all drawn to things
like watching Microsoft implode in slow motion. Ever read the articles
lately.??? More and more of the writers are leaving the “sweet syrup
of irrationality, the gooey goodness of wishful thinking, the
succulent dessert of mindless propaganda, the detectible edibleness of
nonsense, the mind-numbing flavor of foolishness.” that is dribble
that Microsoft puts out to hide its slow but steady crash into
meaninglessness. en

“”I actually have a photographer’s loupe that I use to make sure every
pixel is right. We will argue over literally a single pixel.” – Scott
Forstall” He’s going to be out of a job if resolution independence in
OS X ever becomes reality. Hey Loupe Boy, go get me some coffee and
donuts.

Better late than never department: Fake Steve Jobs has posted that
he’s :
Stay hungry, my friends. Stay foolish. I love you all. I really do.
I’m super-excited about the fact that I’ve been able to change the
world and restore a sense of childlike wonder to your empty,
meaningless lives. I honor the place where your disposable income and
my sleek, gorgeous, super-exciting products have become one, and I
wish you peace and happiness and all the joy in the world — oh Christ
now I’m crying. Dammit! Will someone please get in here with a box of
Kleenex? . Okay. I’m okay. So look. To keep you from getting lonely,
I’ve published the photo above so you can print it out and keep it on
your desk and gaze at it while reciting our mantra — Steve is fine,
Steve is God; Steve is fine, Steve is God — and you’ll be able to
keep yourself hypnotized until I get back.

Dan Lyons/Fake Steve has not stopped his ‘Secret Diary of Steve Jobs
Blog’. (http://fakesteve.blogspot.com/). As the entry quoted explains
other technology characters will appear over the Summer with
occasional appearances by ‘Steve Jobs’. Today an entry appears
authored by (a fictional parody of) Jerry Lang, of Yahoo. I don’t see
that the Alf Garnett comparison is very appropriate. Lyons is a self
confessed Mac fan and the appeal of the blog is its ambiguity as it
shifts between 1. A parodic narcissistic control freak tantrum
throwing Steve Jobs 2. Criticisms of Microsoft, Yahoo, Facebook, Sun
and other technology companies which while delivered by the parodic
Jobs persona clearly reflect Lyons’ own views. 3. Attacks on Hillary
Clinton which are clearly reflect Lyons’ own views, and refer to Jobs’
support for Obama Barack . That is where some weirdness emerged in the
comment section as some posters appear to seriously believe that
Clinton would have Barack murdered if she became Veep. Since the blog
itself is constructed around a parodic bad tempered and hyperbolic
Jobs, it’s difficult to know sometimes if posters are genuinely
bizarre or are just extending the joke. 4. A parody of Apple fans
which is also highly complicit with the fans, since the message of the
blog is that computers which aren’t Macs, smart phones which aren’t
iPhones, digital music players which aren’t iPods and technology
companies which aren’t Apple are second rate or worse. That is even
after filtering out the parodic Jobs egomania. 5. Tech journalists in
general, and particularly those who criticise Apple are lampooned.
While the joke is partly about the Jobs persona the joke is also about
those journalist, including links to videos and news sites so readers
of the blog can enjoy the unintentional self-parody of the lampooned
journalist.

After a piece here in April suggesting advertising is waning, Thinkbox
is here to tell you it isn’t. But do you agree?

O2 customers may have to wait until the end of August to get their
hands on Apple’s new iPhone, even though the device goes on sale
tomorrow.

O2 said today that initial supplies of the new iPhone would be limited
for several weeks, and that many customers hoping to get hold of one
by the weekend were likely to be disappointed.

When the operator began taking pre-orders on Monday, its website
crashed within an hour. “We are experiencing unprecedented demand for
the device, and whilst we are confident that all customers who want
iPhone 3G will get one by the end of the summer, initial supply is
limited and will be for some weeks,” O2 said today.

Some O2 stores will open at 8am tomorrow, but others not until 9:30am.
There are more details on opening times on O2’s website. Customers
wanting to buy the device in store are advised to bring two forms of
ID, a valid credit card, and proof of address.

When Steve Jobs, Apple’s chief executive, unveiled the new iPhone last
month, he admitted that many customers had been turned off by the high
price tag.

The Apple iPhone 2.0 software update will be with us all in the coming
hours today, we checked in the last few minutes and its still not
available but will be very soon.

I think it’s a disgrace Apple are charging iPod Touch users for
an update that essentially allows users to buy Apps from the iTunes
store.

All that was then, the iPhone is now old news. What is in the news
however is its rejuvenated version – the .

The 3G model is yet to be released (a week from now to be precise) and
I know tons of folks who can’t wait to get their hands on this beauty.
Yours truly included, I mean after all it does fall within my “all
things sexy” category.

Besides all the new features such as the two colour options
(Black/White), 16 GB option, 2 megapixels camera, 3G wireless
technology, GPS mapping, App store and Microsoft Exchange, the most
attractive bit of all is its marketed price; $199 for 8 GB model &
$299 for 16 GB model. Now when converted into Indian rupees, the
amount sounds easy on the ears and the pocket.

The iPhone 3G will be free in the UK as it’s subsidised by O2, a
service provider; it’s 1 Euro (Rs 70) in Germany, again subsidised by
T-mobile and costs US$ 199 (Rs 8,557) in the USA, thanks to AT&T. The
phone costs US$ 350 (Rs 15,050) in Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan and
the Philippines. It is not available in Dubai. []

And for my buddies in US of A who are jumping with joy (and mocking us
poor souls back home) thinking about the dream figure; here’s a news
flash for ya.

(Only) if you’re “upgrade eligible” ( to see if you are), you’ll be
able to buy the new iPhone for the discounted price of $199 for the
8GB version or $299 (INR 8,584.86) for the 16GB (INR 12,898.86) model.
(AT&T is somewhat vague about the eligibility criteria, although your
credit history and the time remaining on your contract are factors.)
You’ll also have to pay an $18 “upgrade fee.”

If you’re not eligible for the discount, you’ll have to fork over
extra for an “early upgrade”-$399for the 8GB iPhone 3G or $499 for the
16GB model. Ouch.

AT&T also says that a “no-commitment” (read: no contract) iPhone 3G
will be available soon, at $599 for the 8GB version and or $699 for
the 16GB handset. Pricey, but hey- no two-year contract.

Sakshi, When you say ‘The iPhone 3G will be free in the UK as it’s
subsidised by O2, a service provider; it’s 1 Euro (Rs 70) in Germany’
I hope you realise that the logic you extended to US AT&T contracts
also extend to UK and Germany where you have to lock into a contract
with the provider. If it’s 20k in India, and without a contract, I
would be mighty surprised and immediately buy it. Methinks, it’s gonna
be much more…probably 25k easily.

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Published: 07:00 PM EST
Some of Apple’s top executives, including Steve Jobs, have once again
been accused of bad faith in backdating company shares.
Simultaneously, Mac web share is nearing eight percent in one report,
K-12 educational material has reached iTunes U, and Microsoft has
shipped the second edition of Remote Desktop Connection for Mac. Apple
faces backdating scandal once again Some of Apple’s key senior
officials are once again being taken to task for alleged stock
manipulation. Although Apple has successfully had its most high-
profile case after a combination of internally-run and US Securities
and Exchange Commission investigations, Apple shareholders Kenneth
Mahoney and Martin Vogel late last week filed a new lawsuit that
charges co-founder Steve Jobs, executives, and board members with
damaging the company’s share value through backdating, triggering a 14
percent drop in the company’s stock value during 2006 that wiped out
about $7 billion of Apple’s worth on the market in just two weeks.
By knowingly dating stock options for executives to dates that weren’t
revealed to shareholders and falsifying records, the Apple officials
were aware of fraud and what the manipulation could do to other
shareholders, according to the claim. While Apple ultimately
adjusted its income to address the questionable actions, the move is
said in the lawsuit to have given Jobs “instant paper profit” of more
than $83.8 million in 2000, and $20.3 million in 2001, that wasn’t
properly accounted for. In addition to Apple’s CEO, the suit also
brings further action against former chief finance officer Fred
Anderson and general counsel Nancy Heinen, both of whom were directly
blamed for the irregularities that prompted the earlier US government
action. The long-serving board members accused in the suit include
Intuit chief William Campbell, J. Crew head Millard Drexler,
Genentech’s Arthur Levinson, and Harwinton Capital’s Jerry York. Mac
web share seen nearing 8 percent Continuning its upward climb, Mac
share on the web is now at 7.94 percent, according to June 2008 from
Net Applications. The group’s over 40,000 tracked websites showed
Mac OS X gaining a full tenth of a percentage point from month to
month while Windows declined two tenths to 90.89 percent of all
visitors. A significant gain by Linux from 0.68 to an even 0.8 percent
of all web views is also credited with the shift. iPhone web share
remains flat at 0.16 but is still at an all-time high, and is the most
successful mobile or console operating system in the rankings. K-12
school material reaches iTunes U Previously reserved just for
college and university material, iTunes U is now opening its doors to
content suitable for students between kindergarten and grade 12 as
well as their parents and teachers. Like the post-secondary
material, the iTunes material for K-12 includes audio and video
podcasts as well as text that gives students additional course
material and adults more information about school programs. The
initial launch lineup includents content from school departments in
Arizona, Florida, Maine, Michigan, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Utah.
Microsoft ships Remote Desktop Connection Client 2 Microsoft on
Wednesday released , its long-awaited update to its utility for
connecting to and controlling Windows PCs. The new version is more
Mac-like and includes several crucial additions, including the ability
to reach multiple Windows systems at the same time, to create custom
shortcuts for common actions, and to print content from the Windows
system through the Mac’s existing printer management interface. The
7.7MB download is free and requires an Intel or PowerPC Mac running
Mac OS X 10.2.8 or later with 128MB of RAM.

Everyone knew the new iPhone would have 3G networking for faster
Internet access. We also assumed the phone would run the previously
announced iPhone 2.0 software that included full Microsoft Exchange
support and support for thousands of newly created applications. Those
are features I’ve really been anticipating.

I was hopeful some of the other rumors would come true – namely
a forward-facing camera for live video chats. I wanted to be able to
have a face-to-face chat with my wife using my iPhone.

Heck, I want The Dallas Morning Newsphotographers to be able to
transmit live video back to our Web sites from their 3G iPhones.

Along with video iChatting, I also wanted the iPhone to record video
clips, even if they’re limited to 30 seconds or a specific amount of
the onboard memory.

The largest iPod touch has 32 gigabytes of memory. I suppose Apple
wanted to emphasize the low price point instead of bringing the high-
end iPhone up to the level of the high-end iPod touch.

I really think the iPhone is going to change the way we live. I
haven’t yet decided if I’m going to camp out with the crazies –
probably not.

About 100,000 people directly involved in the industry are set to lose
their livelihoods, the association said, with 150,000 more threatened
if conditions worsen.

Research by Cambridge Econometrics during the last housing recession
put total job losses in the region of 100,000 on the basis that
100,000 fewer houses were built each year. “We are heading in the same
direction again,” Humber said.

However, Humber warned job losses would not stop at 100,000. “The
housebuilding industry has a huge multiplier effect on employment and
the wider economy,” he said.

“Many more thousands of self-employed tradesmen and sub-contractors,
building materials producers, manufacturers of white goods, carpets,
curtains, DIY, estate agents and solicitors would be affected.

Many industry insiders fear that once the housing market picks up
again, the sector won’t be able to fulfil demand if it continues to
make more redundancies.

Pena is one of nearly 200 Latino high school students from around the
state taking part in the fifth annual Maryland Hispanic Symposium, an
initiative of the Washington-based Hispanic College Fund that aims to
keep Latino students on the college track. The program, which ends
today, invites students to spend four nights on the campus of Towson
University to get a feel for college life. Daylong workshops offer
advice in crafting a college application essay, applying for financial
aid and winning scholarships. Organizers keep the setting intimate,
dividing students into small “familias,” and pairing them with mentors
who will track their process throughout the coming school year. The
program also gives scholarships of its own to the winners of
competitions in categories such as speech and art. “Our ultimate goal
is to create the next generation of Hispanic professionals,” said
Idalia Fernandez, president of the Hispanic College Fund. “What we are
doing is capturing young people at the right age to be able to get on
a higher trajectory. At the end of the day, they will be aspiring for
a career, rather than just a job after high school.”The program, which
began in Washington in 2004, expanded to Maryland three years ago.
This year, workshops are planned in seven cities around the
country.Nationwide, Latinos are the least likely ethnic group to earn
a bachelor’s degree. In 2005, 12 percent of Hispanics age 25 and older
had a bachelor’s degree or higher, while that figure was 17.7 percent
for blacks and 30.5 percent for whites, according to the U.S.
census.The workshop didn’t focus on the challenges faced by Latino
teenagers who are in the country illegally. Rather, organizers tried
to inspire students, regardless of their circumstances, to see college
as a possibility.Too often, students lack the confidence to apply to a
four-year-college, even though they have excellent grades, Fernandez
said. Others are intimidated by the costs. Fernandez said that as a
high school student she was accepted to Boston University but was
taken aback when she learned that tuition exceeded what her parents
earned in a year. She ended up attending, paying with a combination of
scholarships, loans and part-time jobs.”So many times, just knowing
the cost will make them stop and say, ‘I’m never going to get in
there’,” said Fernandez, who came to the United States from Honduras
when she was 9 years old. “Other times, they aspire to be only what
they see in their communities, like a social worker or a policeman,
which is good. But some have the talent to be a

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The Pixar Touch: The Making of a CompanyBy David A. PriceKnopf,308
pp., illustrated, $27.95We’ll set out the disclaimer straight away: In
the computer-animated Pixar film “Monsters, Inc.,” the character of
James P. “Sulley” Sullivan is in no way based on this reviewer. My
middle initial is not P., I’ve never used an “e” in the nickname, and
I’m not 8 feet tall and covered in blue fur. But Sulley’s sidekick, a
one-eyed, lime-green bowling ball with pipe-cleaner limbs named Mike
Wazowski, may well have taken some cues from a preexisting character.
In 2002 a San Francisco-area poster artist sued Pixar for copyright
infringement, claiming that the concept for Mike had been cribbed from
one of his stock characters.

Art, as journalist David A. Price points out in his well-crafted book
on Pixar, the brain trust that revolutionized animated film, is “never
created in a vacuum chamber.” Pixar films have paid homage to “The
Magnificent Seven,” Hitchcock’s “Rear Window,” Marcel Proust’s famous
madeleine, and, in “WALL-E,” a cultural heap that ranges from “2001: A
Space Odyssey” to “Hello, Dolly!”

By bringing animation into the 21st century with state-of-the-art
computer programming, Pixar effectively controls the cartoon colossus
of the last century, Disney, which absorbed the younger company in a
2006 megadeal. As part of the agreement, Pixar investor Steve Jobs is
now Disney’s largest shareholder; director John Lasseter has taken
over as chief creative officer; and Pixar co-founder Ed Catmull is
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by July 9, 2008 5:59 PM PDT ALL the fun was not knowing who it was.
Once he was unmasked, he should have ended it. It was funny, but a key
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I was in a bar in New York last weekend and the man next to me looked
vaguely familiar.

“Because he’s not funny, so someone had to be on his behalf,” he said
with a large sip. Of scotch.

“Not at all,” he insisted. “All good things come to an end. Then other
good things begin.”

The real Dan Lyons would surely want to have kept going. Wouldn’t he
have wanted to develop the Fake Steve Jobs character? Wouldn’t he have
wanted to keep on loving his readers to the point of pant-wetness?

Which is why Fake Steve Jobs must continue. For Dan’s sake as much as
the whole tech industry’s.

And, from my one encounter with his depressing, narcissistic,
depressive, downtrodden being in that New York bar, this would not be
a good idea at all.

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This may not be a big deal, but I think we have to look at the big
picture. If this kind of leak can happen, then it’s likely that Jobs’
information control problem will only get worse. Every subsequent
software update could be leaked if Apple and Jobs allow it to show up
early in, say, Norway or Japan.

I don’t care what kind of rock-solid document Jobs has them sign. I
bet someone will talk.

What sort of stuff are we missing? Programs that shouldn’t be that
difficult to build, but that Apple doesn’t want on its machines –
unless it’s the one controlling it. Some of these apps could include:

Amazon MP3 Store: One thing we don’t think we’ll ever see on the
iPhone: A music buying/downloading shop that competes with Apple’s
iTunes store.

Skype: Or a similar Internet phone app that could be used over AT&T’s
(T) 3G network. Apple wouldn’t screw its partners that make money
selling airtime.

Unlocker: Which would allow you to unlock your phone from its official
carrier to use with a different GSM SIM card. Like T-Mobile in the
U.S., for example.

Nintendo emulator: Or anything that would let you play pirated games.
This is already available for hacked, or “jailbroken” iPhones. But
it’s not in the app store, and probably won’t be.

One iphone app you should check out – the new Bloomberg. Blows the
yahoo app out of the water…

Dan: I think your whole premise is silly. AAPL wants to make a profit
for AAPL and for the carriers. Why support AMZN or NBC, or anything
“illegal”? After all AAPL and the carriers are capitalists.
Capitalists want to optimize profits. If AAPL did any of the things
you suggest, they would not be optimizing profits. You got a problem
with that?

Peter: 1) “buy songs ota from its own store” Be patient. That may
come. So you have to buy songs when you are tethered to your computer.
Hooped-de-do. 2) “allow any third party to create apps” AAPL wants to
control the OS. Why let possible malicious software in. Wait for the
android Peter. That sounds like your cellphone. Lots of software, lots
of carriers, lots of manufacturers. Lots of cooks to spoil the broth.
The android is the disaster you have been waiting for.

I have to say, I hope the reason is not Steve Jobs possible illness.
yet, at the same time, I hope it’s not legal pressure by Apple. Fake
Steve was hilarious. Honestly, it made me like Jobs and Apple even
more.

Considering FSJ jumped the shark a long time ago, and has a history of
“faking” Apple’s “concerns” with his blog for publicity, you’d think
stories like this, would just be left to rot.

Don’t worry if you aren’t getting an O2 iPhone – nobody else is
either. Especially if they haven’t sent their passport. (Updated;
again)

After a piece here in April suggesting advertising is waning, Thinkbox
is here to tell you it isn’t. But do you agree?

As well as moving onto pastures new, the real Dan Lyons will get the
chance to shine through with a column under his own name. So it was
those developments on the horizon that prompted the affable Dan to let
the Fake Steve put down his weed and hippy mantras and call it a day.

But if you just can’t face the future without the musings of the Fake
Steve, then you won’t have too long to wait because a book of his bon
mots is out very soon and Dan is also working on a script to put his
creation on the silver screen.

It isn’t always pretty. “Jobs is a control freak extraordinaire. He’s
also a perfectionist, an elitist and a taskmaster to employees. By
most accounts, Jobs is a borderline loony,” Mr. Kahney writes.

His concern extends even to shipping. When he sold the original Mac in
1984, it had the first computer mouse. It was packaged in its own
compartment so that the user would be forced to unpack the device and
plug it in, making the mouse a little less alien when it came time to
be used.

In Addition: In Tough Love at the Table (Sextant Publishing, 224
pages, $24.95), Toronto-based corporate counsellor Allan Bonner
gathers together war stories from his behind-the scenes work with
companies in crisis situations and critical negotiations; not to
mention his draft-dodging friend’s experiences after moving to the
Maritimes from New York – those cultural clashes are unrelated but
fun, and that summarizes the book. Nothing really hangs together (the
opening is academic, the bulk of the book’s anecdotes often without
lessons), but it’s an enjoyable read, and you can learn something
about how to test yourself before a crisis hits and you need the likes
of Mr. Bonner to help you out.

The title Executive Stamina (John Wiley, 306 pages, $29.99) will call
out to those who are overwhelmed with their unrelenting burden.
Executive coach Marty Seldman – teaming for some chapters with his son
Joshua, a cycling and fitness coach – takes executives through
work/life alignment, building stamina, optimizing job performance,
career management, and personal relationships. You’ll learn how to
enjoy surreptitious yoga in the office, develop a new fitness training
program, and avoid career-limiting moves. That’s a broad vista, and
most readers will find they already know a lot in the book from
general reading. If your concern is stamina and energy, you would do
better with The Power of Full Engagement by Jim Loehr and Tony
Schwartz, which came out in 2003, but if you want a broader career
approach or can’t get that book this will give good pointers,
particularly on exercise programs.

Consultant Dan Kennedy shows how to get to the really rich in No B.S.
Marketingto theAffluent (Entrepreneur Press, 428 pages, $19.95), which
comes with a CD.

In the first segment, Don Reisinger tackles Apple, AT&T;, Video games,
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I know you’ll miss FSJ. So will I. But rest assured, Fake Steve is not
really going away. He’s just taking on a new form. As Jimi Hendrix
once said, if I don’t see you no more in this world, I’ll meet you on
the next one, but don’t be late.

Fans can pick up a bound collection of the best posts of FSJ, The
Secret Diary of Steve Jobs: THE SHORT VERSION,but it won’t be the
same. Every Apple fan wants to know what Steve Jobs is thinking, and
if you can’t have that, then at least you had Fake Steve, but no more.
Why, Fake Steve, why?

After being known for close to two years as Fake Steve Jobs, Daniel
Lyons, a former Forbes magazine journalist, writing on a blog page
entitled The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs, decided on shutting down the
popular page, moving to Newsweek as a technology columnist and
starting a brand new blog Web page under his real name.

“I tried transitioning to other voices, like Jerry Yang’s,
but it just didn’t work,” Mr. Daniel Lyons said, referring
to Yahoo’s chief of operations. “It seems clear that
people reading the blog wanted to read Fake Steve or nothing.”
He explained that he grew a bit tired of the fictional creation and
also, more relevant, were his worries about cracking jokes at the
expense of a person with alleged heath issues. The speculations about
Mr. Steve Jobs’ health were started by a report in the New York
Times, covering one of last month’s conferences, where he
appeared changed.

The medical world has lost a great man on Friday night in the person
of Dr. Michael E. DeBakey, a renowned heart surgeon whose
professionalism and medical utensils (he created) has helped many
people…

Cases of melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, are rising among
young women, according to a study by the National Institute of Cancer.
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Despite sailing up the nasal passages of the Sultan of Smug, Steve
Jobs, Lyons decided to kill off his creation. He said he will not be
continuing the column, although he has flogged the movie rights to
Hollywood middlemen Media Rights Capital, and it’s possible that the
character could show up in other formats. µ

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Shoppers were lined up at Apple stores in KC and around the nation to
buy the latest version of Jobs’ iphone. The cost: $199. But wait a
minute.

Now, a little more than a year later, a faster and better iphone is on
sale. Geeks who have to have the latest versions of everything were
rushing to buy it on Friday.

At this rate, though, the fourth or fifth iteration of the iphone will
be around $50. That will be just about the right price for buying
something I will use to make phone calls.

Fake ,” Lyons didn’t want to get stuck blogging during a possible
cancer relapse, or any other health issue, Lyons tells The Standard.
Jobs was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer several years ago, but was
given a clean bill of health after treatment.

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by July 2, 2008 1:50 PM PDT I’m glad someone is suing Apple. In
addition, Steve Jobs should go to jail for stock options backdating
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Valleywag seems about right. Dan said he’d be surprised if Jobs were
still running Apple in a year.

Ah me. Well, perhaps I’ll tell you. But I’m not gonna type it all out
here! But mostly I love to listen and enjoy other’s stories.
Surrounded by a family of over-achievers with their own best-selling
books and Forbes cover stories, perhaps it rubs off. But there is more
then that. Here on Giz you only see my silly outlandish side. And why
not? I’m pretty silly in real life, but I’m retardedly over-educated
and I love knowing what makes people tick and what drives them to
their greatness.

There was a chapter “Working Through Pain”, where Bruce Wayne goes to
try to find a way to work through his pain. He finds an Indian woman
who tries to help him. She then concludes that he can not be helped
because his pain leads him to something he desires (implying his pain
drives him to fight crime to avenge the death of his parents). So this
of course was my favorite part, for it showed what drives Batman to
his “purpose”. Two other people also watched this and did not get what
was implied and found that chapter “weird”. I read books about Physics
for fun. But you’d never know how geeky I truly am by looking at me or
talking to me at first.

At any rate, nice to know that you loved and will miss FSJ. I want
Options V2!. But I agree with Dan that he would not want to parody
Steve if he is ill, because we all want real Steve to be healthy.
Anyways, keep up the amazing work Brian.

@LindsayJoy’s MBP is into S+M: If that’s his real job he should do a
Fake Dick Karlgaard Jr- I mean “Rich” Karlgaard blog. Unless… he
already does?? IT ALL MAKES SENSE!!!!!

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There has been some grumbling about prices in New Zealand, where
Vodafone, the only mobile provider selling the iPhone there, is
charging between NZ$199 ($151) and NZ$549 ($416) for the new iPhone
unit and NZ$250 ($190) a month for a minimum two-year plan.

The company, based in Cupertino, California, says it has sold about 6
million iPhones since last year. It has said its goal is to sell 10
million by the end of 2008.

-In June, Rogers sets the iPhone’s debut for July 11, and is quickly
met with criticism about the data pricing plan.

-Rogers representatives say they expect record first-day sales, but
decline to disclose how many phones were shipped to stores or how many
they had expected to sell.

When the iPhone App Store was mentioned in Steve Jobs’ WWDC keynote,
one of the many applications announced was are coming forward with
their own iPhone app plans.

People started yelling his name and, for a few moments, the AUT
physiotherapy student at the head of the 200-strong queue was a star.

The 24-year old from Auckland arrived there at 7:30pm on Tuesday to
make sure he would be “the first person in the world to give away an
iPhone”.

New Zealand was the first country to sell the 3G iPhone with three
Vodafone stores in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch opening at
one minute past midnight.

McCullough and the others in line braved the chill wind and the stares
of curious passers-by as they waited for its release at midnight.

After she had secured her phone, she said she was looking forward to
getting back to a warm bed.

The new iPhone was similar to the first-generation phone with its
famed touch-screen interface but it had a few improved features.

Stuff.co.nz technology editor Reuben Schwarz said the phone had the
same look as the first one but had a plastic back for better
reception.

The 3G mobile connection provided maximum download speeds of 3.6Mbps
(megabits per second) for internet and email.

There was still no zoom or video on the 2MP (megapixel) camera, and
the phone could not send pxts or video by SMS (short message service).

As official “proxy/supporter/fill-in for when Luci is getting
interviewed” on the night shift, it definitely was an entertaining way
to spend a Thursday night And an exciting ride home!

Honestly, why waste 16 hours of the day in the cold to buy a phone you
could’ve bought for cheaper on a cheaper “plan” on trademe or ebay!!??
(albeit an older generation phone) What dummies. Wow “fast” internet
on a small screen, just get a PC and broadband.

Sure Tim, a PC would be handy to make calls on and listen to music,
watch movies or surf the web, whilst being able to be carried
anywhere….

If you get a you choose plan with 120 Anytime minutes and 600 Txt, it
costs you $72.90 .. that doesn’t include the $29.95 for 200MB of 3g
data a month .. a total of $102.85.

I can think of much better things to do with $250 pm (and locked in
for 2 years, lunacy!). Definitely would not waste it on flash harry
gadgets that will be obsolete before the fixed 2 year timeframe is
complete. Luckily for Apple not everybody thinks like this.

What people, waiting for a phone for 16 hours… spend that time in
work you get some money to pay for your bread and petrol….

I thought Apple wanted a large market share before Google Android is
released? Maybe someone forgot to tell Vodafone NZ.

Am totally bored of this topic already. Kiwis had a chance to protest
against corporate greed but these losers have flushed that down the
toilet along with mummy and daddy’s money.

I’m going to guess that Tim has never used one. I have the ipod touch
with the same “small” screen and it’s actually pretty good. The UI
makes it really easy to zoom in on sections of a web page and the
extra speed takes it from being painful to use (click, wait,
wait,wait) to practical.

the phone is worth it weight in gold but best on an open plan , all
the best to iphone buyers out there, you will love the phone

Words cannot express how excited I am that this “story” continues to
get so much media exposure.

Think about it, you go out on the Ibooze and loose your
Iphone…you’ve just Ilost your Ipod too.

This is the second generation of the tech. It’s got some vastly
improved features but it still can’t send pxt or record movies.

Mobile internet devices such as Blackberrys and Iphones are damn handy
when your traveling. No need to wait around for the laptop to boot up
so you can check an address or read email.

The iphone has no zoom,no pxt,poor camera.I can stick a 16GB memory
card on my n82 or even a 32GB.

What a waste of time standing on queue. I brougth my iPhone 10month
ago from USA and unlocked it. so can be use with any prepay vodafone
card. Why you want 3g so expensive. Use cheaper iPhone and use public
wireless hotspot in town to access internet. You don’t have to pay
$200.00 to browse internet. I am doing this last 10 months. Lots of
public wireless hotspots are available in Auckland,Chch and
Wellington.

I was considering buying an iPhone, but as I have an aversion to
having my eyeballs ripped from their sockets, I’m just going to wait
and see.

LoL i don’t see what is so good about the iphone – Nokia make a better
phone that does more. I’m holding out for the iToaster!.

Steve & Barry’s has opened 276 retail stores in 39 states. All are
still open and doing business as usual, according to a company
statement.

In particular, its exclusive branded lines of merchandise created with
high-profile entertainers and athletes have performed exceptionally
well.

Wendi Kopsick, spokesman for Steve & Barry’s, said the company is
analyzing each store location, but that no decisions have been made.

“I’m also concerned that the timing of this fault seems to fall
consistently outside the standard 12-month warranty on Mac products.
When I voiced this concern to a ‘concierge’ at their new Apple Store I
was informed that that is why people pay $500 for the extended
warranty.

“Apart from the obvious reluctance of customers to pay an extra $500
on top of an already expensive piece of hardware, this kind of ‘buyer-
beware’ retail logic makes me wonder if built-in obsolescence rather
than hip, hollow aphorisms is actually the cornerstone of Apple’s
marketing strategy.”

–S. K., Arlington The cloud is a fancy term for a computer or
server in a data center somewhere other than at your house.
Apple’s new Mobile Me service lets users store files on a server owned
or leased by Apple. Those servers are accessed through any Internet
connected computer. That’s like having a big thumb drive “in the
clouds.”

It became common to talk of pushing data “into the cloud” to represent
using the internet to send files to and from servers and Web sites.

Published: 06:35 PM EST
Despite reports to the contrary, TomTom is still working on a GPS app
for the iPhone. Meanwhile, Steve Jobs’ thin look may be permanent
evidence of his cancer cure, Greenpeace is concerned about a toxic
iPhone 3G. And a growing number of would-be iPhone programers are
attacking Apple’s backlog in approving their full developer status.
TomTom iPhone still in the works Dutch GPS maker TomTom is still
very much involved in developing its own in an interview on Friday.
Contradicting unofficial reports that the company , Lafargue says that
TomTom has been developing a version of its Navigator software for the
iPhone ever since the release of the SDK and that the software works
“very well.” Whether or not it will be releasable is still up in the
air, he warns. The company could find itself blocked from offering the
software through the App Store either as a potential competitor to
Apple’s own software or else as a rival to a chosen partner of the
iPhone maker. TomTom doesn’t foresee a clause in the SDK guidelines
against real-time tracking as affecting its development: Apple is
simply protecting itself against legal threats from users who land
themselves in trouble using navigation software, the representative
claims. Jobs’ thin frame the result of treatment: report Apple co-
founder Steve Jobs’ “. Jobs is believed to have received a special
treatment, known as a Whipple, that cuts off the tumorous part of the
pancreas and reattaches the rest to the small intestine while also
connecting the bile duct and stomach in a new manner. This allows
the remaining pancreas to perform normally but has a number of
potential side effects, according to doctors, including the tendency
to lose between five and 10 percent of body mass regardless of the
patient’s diet. Crucially, however, the loss is not a sign of a
worsening condition. Proper exercise and diet can let these cancer
survivors “live a normal life,” according to Dr. Dilip Parekh of the
University of Southern California. Apple has never publicly
described how Jobs’ cancer was cured or whether it would produce
adverse reactions. Greenpeace raises concerns over iPhone 3G When
Apple pledged that it would illustrate its ZDNet France. The
activist group’s toxics campaign head Zeina Al-Hajj notes that Apple
has been curiously silent on progress (if any) made in eliminating
harmful substances in the new iPhone. It suggests that Apple hasn’t
evolved its design to be more eco-friendly, she says. A lack of
progress would be worrying to Greenpeace, as the organization found
late last year that cabling in the iPhone , albeit in small amounts.
Observers have noted that the iPhone 3G’s plastic back is a step
backwards in recyclability for the Apple handset, whose shell was
originally made of the same aluminum that Apple has touted as being
desirable for recycling. Critics blast Apple’s continued iPhone dev
program backlog Over the more than three months since Apple first
began accepting applications for its iPhone development program, the
company still hasn’t shown signs of coping with the large number of
applicants., according to by Rogue Amoeba’s Paul Kafasis. Although
his company has a longstanding history of developing for Macs, it and
“a number of other respected Mac software companies” still haven’t
been accepted as official developers and received the signing
certificate needed to test code on an actual device and thus bring the
software closer to completion. The delay would be understandable
given unprecedented demand but is simply frustrating given the
inconsistency and lack of communication from Apple, Kafasis says. The
Cupertino-based electronics maker has so far fast-tracked individual
applications while leaving teams at larger companies without answers.
Little if any communication arrives from Apple regarding the status of
the projects, leaving prospective companies wondering whether they
should continue development or back out earlier. “We don’t know if
we should invest our time in a platform for which we may not even be
allowed to release software,” Kafasis says.

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confirming Icahn’s remarks about Microsoft’s renewed interest in a
transaction with Yahoo: “While, of course, there can be no assurance
of a future transaction, we will be prepared to enter into discussions
immediately after Yahoo’s shareholder meeting, if a new board is
elected.”

Microsoft could if it were to go directly to Yahoo’s investors with a
tender offer and work in tandem with Icahn’s proxy battle.

Although there could be a variety of reasons why Icahn has not yet
filed his definitive proxy, ranging from addressing any last-minute
changes requested by the Securities and Exchange Commission to
unexpected delays over Fourth of July weekend, it could provide the
investor activist with an additional bargaining chip in achieving a
friendly Yahoo-Microsoft deal before he finalizes his proxy plans.

One of the new features available at the iPhone App Store is the
ability for iPhone and iPod Touch owners to . With the free,
1-megabyte application installed, an iPod Touch or iPhone can use a
Wi-Fi connection to control and search through an iTunes library
remotely, flip around on an Apple TV, and control AirTunes speakers.

CNET News’ Marguerite Reardon has that highlights key features and
points out short-comings of seven possible iPhone alternatives. She
also threw in pricing information, not only for the phone, but also
for the service plans that go with them.

Fixing a hole A major flaw in how the Internet works has by attackers.
A flaw in the domain name system (DNS), the database that matches a
host and domain name with the numerical address of a computer server,
could allow an attacker to replace the addresses of popular Web sites
with that of a malicious server, said Dan Kaminsky, director of
penetration testing for security firm IOActive.

Meanwhile, Microsoft issued a security advisory warning about in the
ActiveX control for the Snapshot Viewer in the Microsoft Access
database management system.

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USA Today spoke with Steve Jobs about the impending App Store launch
that is rumored to launch at 9 am PT on Thursday, July 10th. Jobs
reveals that 500 applications will be launching on Thursday and that
it is “the biggest launch” of his career. Apps will be available from
MySpace, Facebook, AOL, eBay, SEGA and many more companies. One called
Pandora allows you to create custom internet radio stations:
Pandora is already available on other phones from AT&T; and Sprint,
for a monthly fee. On the iPhone, it is free. That makes it “a
credible alternative to broadcast (radio),” in part because iPhones
can be plugged into car stereos, founder Tim Westergren says.

It hasn’t even been a year since “Fake Steve” Jobs
was to the world, as Daniel Lyons, a senior editor at Forbes magazine.
The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs was a parody of the Apple CEO, which
became almost required reading in Silicon Valley, at least until Lyons
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Looks like it’s the same old stuff in new packaging. Apple has let us
down again by holding on to the toxic chemicals that we found lurking
in the original iPhone. Launch of the next generation iPhone would
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in the Sony Ericsson in my pocket so there’s no reason why Apple can’t
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doors of an “App Store” brimming with independently created mini-
programs promising to make iPhones even more coveted.

The shop, accessible through Apple’s online iTunes store, opened with
five times that many mini-programs. More than 125 of the applications
are free.

Software creators are allowed to set their own prices, as long as
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Apple stores will open early Friday to begin selling iPhone 3G models
in more than 20 countries and analysts say sales could pass the
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BoomTown landed at New York’s JFK Airport this morning and, of
course, could not resist visiting the flagship Apple (AAPL) store on
Fifth Avenue in Manhattan on iPhone 3G Day.

In any case, I did a particularly jumpy video of the doings at one of
Apple’s most famous stores, as legions of New Yorkers waited in
line for their cheaper, faster, prettier iPhone.

Actually I like the “jumpiness” of the video footage. I
got a real sense of the activity and the length of the line.

It may end up a team of people rather than just one. I think they’ve
learned from ealier and other examples that you need a visionary, not
a sales guy, in the top job. Ives has the vision, but dunno about his
business acumen. Either way I’m sure Jobs will pick and train someone
eventually.

You got to remember, Ha, ha, ha (what a stupid name) gets really upset
when you remind him that his penis is orange from eating corn curls
while reading Hustler in his parents basement.

@ Denny The smell of troll fear was just too much for me to resist.
Poking them with sticks is awfully fun!

I think he’s still on this side of the shark pit, but it was a mistake
covering the elections. That really brought out the worst in everyone,
as politics is wont to do. Hopefully he’ll also have more time with
his new job so he doesn’t have to croudsource the funny.

Most posting in the comment sections is clearly by Apple fans who
enjoy the joke, and it’s difficult to get the humour of the blog
without at least pretending to be an Apple fan and sharing that point
of view for a moment.

Limited supply means that most stores will only have a few dozen
iPhones when the device goes on sale

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the new iPhone and its competitionWhat it costs: iPhone monthly
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O2 said today that initial supplies of the new iPhone would be limited
for several weeks, and that many customers hoping to get hold of one
by the weekend were likely to be disappointed.

Initially, the new iPhone will only be available to old iPhone
customers wanting to upgrade, or new customers signing up afresh. O2
customers on contracts with other devices are obliged to serve out
those contracts before upgrading.

The iPhone has always shined in the application development area and
this kind of expandability has meant many things to different users,
with the iPhone 2.0 Software update you will be able to do even more
with the iPhone thanks to the new App Store.

All these features and more will be free in the next iPhone software
update, so if your not getting the iPhone 3G just yet then check them
out today by getting the update via iTunes. It will be officially
available today.

I think it’s a disgrace Apple are charging iPod Touch users for
an update that essentially allows users to buy Apps from the iTunes
store.

Can I ask around what time will we see the update for the old iPhone
version 2.0(GMT), and where will this happen. iTunes or apple website.

All that was then, the iPhone is now old news. What is in the news
however is its rejuvenated version – the .

And if like me you too are thinking of purchasing this baby for a
lesser price via the ever-enterprising eBay or requesting your
chacha’s wife’s grandfather’s cousin’s grandson to send you US-made
maal – well then, my darling, you are in for a disappointment.

And for my buddies in US of A who are jumping with joy (and mocking us
poor souls back home) thinking about the dream figure; here’s a news
flash for ya.

So it only seems wiser to buy an official piece, the only drawback
– can you wait for another 3 months?

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wow! as an old fart who has completely missed the cellphone revolution
(apart from that antique heavy as a brick device for emergencies such
as blizzards), I am amazed that anyone would pay this much, just for
its sex appeal and the pleasure of twiddling thumbs and pushing some
buttons. I have always wondered about all those folks yakking away on
the phone: How DO they find someone to talk to for THAT long? All very
mysterious forms of human behaviour. But then again, I love this quote
from ole man Marx: “nothing human is alien to me”

Now…again, How did “Steve Jobs” fool you? All the “fooled” issues
you mention are caused not by Apple or Steve Jobs…but by the
carrier. AT&T is handling their prices and policies for the iPhone
just like their policies for all their other 3G smartphones. And AT&T
policies are very similar to all the other carriers and their
prices/policies on smartphones. Steve Jobs negotiated the world’s
lowest price from the carrier for unlimited use for the first
iPhone…and everyone complained and criticized it as too slow.
So…now Apple is just like all the other smartphones subsidized by
all the other carriers. Happy now? (But Jobs had nothing to do with
your issues), he’s just providing smartphones just like Nokia,
Samsung, HTC, Motorola and Palm…only better and more usable.

Wow. Fantastic response I must say. And now getting to the point, this
is what I think : If the price of the 3G iPhone is around 20-22
grand minus any sort of yearly contract with Airtel or Vodafone, I
will go for it in a jiffy. But a contract is what I will be forced
into a contract(even if the iPhone price is lesser than predicted),
then the answer is a big NO. In that case I will go with HTC Touch
Diamond. A sexy piece I might add.

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I’m sure everyone breathed a big sigh of relief when Apple chief
executive Steve Jobs unveiled the new iPhone Monday. I was certainly
caught up in the iPhone rumor tornado, and I was really ready for it
to subside.

I was hopeful some of the other rumors would come true – namely
a forward-facing camera for live video chats. I wanted to be able to
have a face-to-face chat with my wife using my iPhone.

As I recall, when the original iPhone went on sale, after the campers
got their phones and the big rush subsided, the stores were pretty
quiet at the end of the day.

Roger Humber, strategic policy adviser to the House Builders
Association, said: “We have always said one house equals one job, in
that all the components – like the plumber doing half a day and the
electrician – add up to one person per house. This year we have about
80,000 homes coming in rather than 180,000 last year, so that is
100,000 jobs lost. It is the crudest rule of thumb we can apply.”

However, Humber warned job losses would not stop at 100,000. “The
housebuilding industry has a huge multiplier effect on employment and
the wider economy,” he said.

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The apple and apple tv’s waiting in line

A spokesman for AT&T, the exclusive carrier for the iPhone in the
U.S., said there was a global problem with Apple’s iTunes software
that prevented the phones from being fully activated in-store, as
had been planned.

When the first iPhone went on sale a year ago, customers performed the
whole activation procedure at home, off-loading employees. But the new
model is subsidized by carriers, as is standard in the wireless
industry, and Apple and AT&T therefore planned to activate all
phones in-store.

Apple rolled out its next-generation iPhone across 22 countries, with
the aim of positioning itself as a leading maker of pocket PCs at a
pivotal moment in the worldwide smart-phone market.

Apple, still a relatively small player in the smart-phone industry, is
hoping to innovate its way into the pockets of consumers around the
world with a lower-priced iPhone that for the first time is
engineered to run on a faster 3G network. By year’s end, the iPhone
will be sold in 70 countries.

The software – which is only available using the ‘Updates” section
within Settings on an Apple TV – adds support for MobileMe and the new
Remote application that will be free in the App Store for the iPhone
and iPod touch.

MobileMe now shows up in the Photo section and there is a way to
connect with the new iPhone and iPod touch remote application under
the Settings -> General -> Remotes section.

Apple’s Mobile Me service has been sighted in full operation during
the day, but it’s intermittent – it’s presently nonfunctional.

, Jul 11, 2008 08:42 AM
Live report from the field! I am waiting in line for the 3G iPhone at
the local Apple Store. There are about 30 people ahead of me. The line
hasn’t budged one foot since 8 AM.

I knew it wasn’t going to be like last year. When the iPhone first
became available on June 29, all you had to do was walk in, slap down
$600 and walk out. No so, iPhone 2.0.

Apple Store employees are going down the line and speaking to each
person waiting individually. They are making sure everyone has the
necessary documentation so the sales process goes smoothly. (They also
handed out free water.)

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So my advice is to check and recheck the plans carefully. Know exactly
how much you’re up for if you go over your data usage limit. Read the
fine print. Add up the total cost over the period of the contract.
Don’t choose a provider just because it’s your current one. Take your
time to digest it all. Don’t lose your head over a pretty phone.

Google’s native search application for the iPhone and iPod touch
is simply an interface to the popular engine with location awareness
— essentially the only advantage this application holds over the
mobile-optimized Web site. Like other location-aware applications,
Google may ask whether or not you wish to allow use of your current
location.

Photo access is accomplished via the Camera Photo icon at the bottom
of the Apps screen. You can touch the “Add Photos” button
and add them directly from the iPhone’s camera or from your
iPhones photo library. Basic editing allows you to delete photos from
your MySpace profile.

When a call is received while audio is streaming in AOL Radio, the
music fades and your call rings through. If you decline to answer AOL
Radio starts up where it left off with out a hitch. However if you
accept the call and subsequently finish that call you have to re-
launch AOL Radio. It does not automatically restart. This follows the
rules Apple has for apps developed for the iPhone.

The popularity of Sprint Nextel’s new Samsung Instinct — the
company says first-week sales beat those of all its other broadband-
capable phones — is a bit of a puzzler.

Yes, this device bears a resemblance to Apple’s iPhone, which saw its
latest version go on sale Friday. But the Instinct doesn’t come with
features to rival those of the iPhone.

Like many phones, the Instinct looks much better than it works. A
polished slab about half-an-inch thick and weighing only 4.4 ounces,
this smartphone dispenses with almost all of the standard buttons,
save a few on the sides that do such basic tasks as turn it on and
adjust volume, in favor of a large touch-sensitive screen that fills
most of its face.

The other is choice. The iPhone is an amazing machine. But in the
United States, Apple has chosen to handcuff it to a single provider,
AT&T Wireless.

Like iTunes, the App Store will allow users to easily buy and download
games from publishers and developers while providing trailers, user-
generated reviews and even some free game demos. There are already
over 175 games available.

“That’s a really big deal because it’s no longer just a phone. It’s a
media player, an Internet player, a camera and a games machine that
also happens to make telephone calls,” he said.

“Apple absolutely gets gaming with iPhone … Just look at the air
time that Apple is dedicating to games and that shows you that they
consider games to be a key application for the device.” Young left his
job as head of Electronic Arts’ (ERTS.O: ) Los Angeles studio, where
he collaborated with Steven Spielberg on game projects like “Boom
Blox” for Nintendo Co Ltd’s (7974.OS: ) Wii, to focus on creating
original iPhone games, which are also playable on any iPod touch
device.

“We can bring awesome gameplay mechanics together with these new
technologies and build gaming experience that frankly no one has
experienced before.”

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The new iPhone went on sale across the UK on Friday with customers
queuing through the night to secure one of the hotly anticipated
gadgets.

About 150 people were waiting outside Apple’s flagship store in
London’s Regent Street for the 8.02am launch.

O2, Apple’s network partner for the handset, warned that each of its
stores would have on average just “a few dozen” iPhones to sell.

It said supply issues meant numbers would be limited for weeks but
customers would have one “by the end of this summer”. Sales at O2
outlets will be limited to one per customer and two for business
customers.

Approximately 36 hours after the release of the iPhone 2.0 firmware,
existing iPhone customers still can’t download it. iTunes says it’s
unavailable. Apple should have done better.

I have the first-generation iPhone I bought a year ago–and as of
midday Saturday, the new v2.0 firmware was unavailable for download.
iTunes tells me, incorrectly, that “this version of the iPhone
software (1.1.4) is the current version.” See the above screenshot.

This is understandable, perhaps, but it’s disappointing–especially
because this should have been preventable with even a modicum of
advance planning.

Update 1:50 p.m. PDT: iTunes is now showing the update as available. I
should have noted that I already upgraded to the latest version of
iTunes. That wasn’t the problem–Apple’s servers were.

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The new 3G iPhone is displayed on a table, as customers buy the latest
iPhone inside Apple Store at Valley Fair mall in San Jose on July 11,
2008. (Dai Sugano/Mercury News)

That’s a big deal, because the slow download speeds of the old iPhone
were one of the main things that users and reviewers complained about.
Speed is no longer the device’s Achilles’ heel.

Apple has added a special section to its iTunes store where users
already can find hundreds of different applications, including games,
utilities and multimedia programs.

Among the applications I downloaded and tested were one from Apple
called “Remote,” that allows the iPhone to remotely control the songs
or movies playing on your
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computer, a version of AOL’s AIM messaging program and a game called
“Super Monkey Ball” from Sega. None of them took long to download. And
they all installed automatically either when I synced the iPhone to my
computer or after downloading them directly to the device.

I also found some bugs or problems in some of the applications. The
built-in Safari browser crashed the phone while trying to pull up a
Web page I had created in iWeb, Apple’s own Web design program. AIM
crashed while I was trying to delete a contact from my buddy list.

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, Jul 12, 2008 06:58 PM
I had a great time videotaping the launch of the iPhone 3G on Friday
at Apple’s big “glass house” store on 59th Street in
New York City. The fanfolk were friendly, famed CBS news analyst Jeff
Greenfield was gracious, and the Apple public relations woman was, er,
just as peachy nice as one would expect (watch the end of my three-
minute video to see).

Also, nearly everyone I talked to has bought into the idea that the
iPhone 3G is way faster than the existing model. My quibble with this
is, it means they don’t understand that AT&T;’s 3G
coverage is spotty once you venture away from major metropolitan
areas. Of course, since the Apple Store in midtown Manhattan is about
as major metropolitan as you can get, these folks probably have less
to be concerned about than customers in South Dakota.

The other interesting data point is that no one seemed concerned about
the scant battery life of the iPhone 3G. Me, I remain pretty unhappy
with the battery life of my first-generation iPhone. The fact that the
3G model has even less talk time on a charge makes me reluctant to
upgrade.

Anyway, this video is presented as a humorous commentary on the iPhone
3G scene. Check it out, and please leave your comments below or e-mail
them to me directly at .

, Jul 11, 2008 10:15 AM
Apple knew its iPhone 2.0 software would be popular. Nonetheless,
iPhone users trying to install the update have overwhelmed Apple’s
servers, leaving lots of unhappy iPhone users.

What’s good for Apple Inc. is bad for Research In Motion Ltd. – and
Apple has been basking in glowing coverage around the world for its
new iPhone, glitches aside, and how every living creature on the
planet should line up in the wee hours to buy one.

For investors in RIM, which makes the wireless BlackBerry device, what
else is there to do but sit back and watch the share price slide? The
shares, once one of the main drivers for the S&P/TSX composite index,
have fallen more than 25 per cent from their peak in mid-June.

Clearly, if you’re going to invest in RIM, it’s better to buy when
market sentiment is waning and the price of the stock is well off its
peak, than to wait until the buzz returns.

Trouble is, the risks are rising that RIM is entering a new phase in
which the market will cast serious doubts on the company’s growth
prospects. These doubts are unlikely to disappear as long as the
iPhone commands headlines. The better bet is to wait this one out a
while longer.

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Installer 4 can coexist with the App Store on firmware 2.0. This means
you can have all the bells and whistles of free and pay-for-use apps
of the App Store, PLUS all those apps Apple will refuse to put on
their store.

Like it or not there are any number of application types that could
completely thrash the phone network if they got popular. I think it is
fair enough for AT&T to limit things that could cause service outages.
You will not that they have no problem with you using VoIP, just as
long as you do it in a way that won’t fuck with their network.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for software developers making a buck on
their application if it’s worth it (see related rant on media from a
previous slashdot story).

The question here is… If -I- were to make a *free* French-English
dictionary… what are my odds of getting approved as a developer,
getting my app approved in the store, and so forth and so on. Keeping
in mind that this conflicts with a for-pay product also listed, and of
which Apple gets a greater share (as in > $0). I’m sure Apple would
allow it, but then there’s the case of TomTom (google them) still not
being approved for the program, while a competitor (google them also,
forgot their name – they’re better known in the U.S. I think) is.

In the case of iPhone/iPod Touch, the only way to add functionality
without voiding the warranty is through the manufacturer’s approved
method — the same applies to your car.

You picked a funny thread to ask that. Sorta like going into a packed
theater to see Episode III and shouting “Am I the only one that
doesn’t give a shit about Star Wars?”

stop telling lies. Apple has yet to reach their publicly stated sales
goals, because the time limit is still on going. They have always
stated from the beginning that they wanted 10 million units sold by
the end of 2008 they had some 6-7 million sold before iphone 2 was
released.

People I work with who don’t know anything about anything technology
related are asking me about the iPhone. They tell me they saw some
coverage in the news, and they want to know more.

Its a rather poor application and its considered the best of the
subway map applications. Thats not really saying much… or is it?

The games, what games? Apple’s own texas hold’em app is average at
best. It reminds me of a game from 1991. Its nice that there is
multiplayer but the graphics are ridiculous. And coming from Apple…
i would have expected a better ui for the game. Instead it looks like
bargain bin software.

There is POTENTIAL with the new app store, and app capability… but i
cant say that there is any killer app out there yet, other than AIM.

Don’t be too rough on the boy until he’s actually used one and still
says those things.

Though I’m not worried about Jobs passing away any time soon, I would
feel better if there was “another Steve Jobs” who could replace him.
Tech companies almost always suffer when their original founders
leave, and Apple nearly went bankrupt without Jobs once before

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Outside one Brussels store, where the iPhone is sold unlocked and
without a contract beginning at 525 euros ($828), Germain Merinero, a
European Commission employee, said he was not put off by the price.

The next-generation iPhone is Asia’s first official taste of the
touch-screen device previously available only in the United States and
Europe.

Others point to a vibrant grey market for fakes or unlocked phones –
hacked to work on the networks of other carriers — in China and
southeast Asia, cannibalising demand.

Outside of London’s Apple store, not everyone was infected by the
hype. Looking at the hubbub surrounding the store, one passerby
commented: “What’s the big deal?” (Visit the Reuters MediaFile blog
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Prodhan and Matt Cowen in London; Vinicy Chan and Judy Hua in Hong
Kong; Sachi Izumi in Tokyo; Edith Honan and Sinead Carew in New York;
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Mike Letcher queued up outside The Galleria’s Apple store at 3:50
a.m., getting a jump on the 8 a.m. opening. Rushing to get to work by
9 a.m. with a $300 phone that didn’t work, he said he couldn’t wait
for store employees to try to get it running.

They told him it likely would start working later when stress on the
company’s computer system eased after the initial crush of new iPhone
activations.

“Obviously I’m a little disappointed,” Letcher said. “It should be
working. I can’t even make a call on it.” He left under the impression
it was going to come alive at some point, and if it didn’t, he’d need
to go back to the store.

At the Apple store, clerks blamed AT&T servers for failing under the
load. AT&T said the problem was with “tethering to iTunes” and “Apple
is working on the problem,” according to local AT&T spokesman Dan
Feldstein.

“It’s bound to happen on launch day,” said Paul Joseph Serna, 31.
After getting in line at 5 a.m., he left with a working phone more
than four hours later.

Blogs, Internet message boards and services like Twitter buzzed
through the morning as the scope of problems locally and nationwide
became more apparent. However, that same message traffic later
indicated the troubles were easing.

David Catalan, 20, went through a roller coaster of a day while trying
to get his iPhone. He was the first in line at The Galleria at 3:45
a.m. Friday. But when the doors opened to hooting and clapping from
Apple workers, Catalan was still waiting for his mother to arrive so
they could put his new phone on the family plan under her corporate
account.

A couple of hours later, he was back at the Apple store opening a new
calling plan and by 10:45 a.m. — seven hours after starting the
line — he had his iPhone.

The new phone’s software — which is available to first-
generation iPhone and iPod Touch users — also adds improvements
such as Microsoft Exchange e-mail compatibility, which many corporate
accounts require, and access to third-party programs.

It wasn’t immediately clear whether there was more demand for the
iPhone 3G than the original. Feldstein said lines at AT&T stores were
longer then they were a year ago, but this time they didn’t form days
in advance. There were a handful of hopefuls setting up lawn chairs
and even a couple of tents Thursday night, but that was about as
fanatical as it got.

“I didn’t how many they had per store, but I was like, ‘I want one,’ “
she said. “I’ve wanted it since the last one.”

Any business owner can tell you a story of how he climbed the ladder
or made the leap from employee to employer. Few of those stories can
compare to that of John Le, owner of seafood importer Seafood
Connection Inc. in San Jose, Calif. In 1979 at age 17, Le and his
father boarded a boat with nearly 3,000 other people to flee their
native Vietnam.

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Spend! Spend! Spend!Frantic mobs in Madrid. Half-mile long lines in
Tokyo. Gadget-geeks forgoing showers and lingering for 27-hours
outside Silicon Valley malls. All for a chance to the new $199-to-$299
iPhone today. Remarkable!
Plus, hardly anybody seemed perturbed the gizmos came with a glitch so
they initially could only be activated on home computers instead of in
the stores where they were purchased.

We’re talking about the reduced-priced new electric blue version of
Palm’s Centro. Until Sept. 20, Palm will offer its smart phone for
just $70 – $29 below its usual $99 price – in hopes of attracting
back-to-school shoppers. But some wonder why Palm would time a product
release on a day it’s almost certain to be ignored.

EBay’s bogus-bag dispute:Remember the verdict in a European court last
week that found eBay failed to do enough to block the sale of fake
handbags, perfume, watches and other luxury goods?

A Paris appeals court now has upheld the court’s decision to fine eBay
$80,000 for each day the San Jose company allowed the sales to
continue.

“We are going to comply with the judge’s decision as technically and
humanly as possible,” eBay spokeswoman Sravanthi Agrawal said in a
telephone interview. She said the company was holding meetings to
discuss how to stop the sales of the phony goods.

AMD also will have charges of $32 million, mostly related to job cuts,
and $36 million, related to investments in Spansion and holdings of
auction rate securities. The expense will be recorded in the second
quarter, AMD said.

Yahoo update:The weekend is almost upon us. So we felt it appropriate
to give those of you who can barely make it through a day without news
about Microsoft’s bid to buy Yahoo two items to help tide you over
until Monday.

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, the free online personalized music service, is now available on
iPhones.It’s the first time Pandora has been available through a
mobile platform, and it’s potentially huge for advertisers: Roughly 6
million people own iPhones, and two-thirds of them are between 25-34
– a highly coveted demographic in marketing circles.Pandora users can
use the service on their phones after downloading the Pandora
application from the iPhone App Store.

My biggest gripe? That while you can sign up for a ShoZu account from
the iPhone itself, you have to visit the Web site to arrange for
multi-pinging. It’s the glue that ties ShoZu together for many users,
and is something they’ll need to add to truly be a standalone app on
the iPhone.

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any and all software for the iPhone.

Miller said he’d warned Apple that the iPhone was vulnerable to the
same attack, but the company had told him it was not. In an interview
via e-mail Friday, he expressed exasperation at seeing that the issue
had finally been addressed. In the past he has been of Apple for
patching bugs in its Mac OS X software while leaving the same issues
unpatched in the iPhone, which is also based on OS X.

The iPhone 2.0 software has a few other bells and whistles to
encourage the upgrade, such as support for Cisco VPN connections and
Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync. It also has better e-mail and contact
management features, Apple says.

With an iPhone and the right app, you can sync your e-mail and
calendar, use voice search, play games, and more.

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One of the two largest Social Networking websites, MySpace said that
it is developing an application for iPhone platform. Mobile
application will allow MySpace users to login to their MySpace account
and access some features using iPhone.

My 1st. Gen iPhone has the same function. I actl. thought that this is
a planned function by apple, but now since it is posted on the website
i wonder.

so far my iphone 3g doesnt seem to be having this issue, although i
have only tried it around 5 times. aside from this, when i switch the
ringer switch to silent, nothing happens. no icon comes up in menu bar
and incoming calls all function with a ringtone. just me?

I should say that the part that fixed it was doing the Reset All
Settings. You can find that here:

The problem you described is not occurring with my iPhone 3G. I just
tried it a few times and my call did not disconnect.

As you can see in our 2008 iPhone 3G video, the first test involved
placing the iPhone in a plastic bag with two sets of keys and jostling
it around like 3G Shake ‘N’ Bake. This test is designed to simulate
the rough life of a cell phone rattling around in a pocket or purse.
The iPhone’s screen, plastic backing, and ridges emerged relatively
pristine from this test.

Subsequent drops chipped away at the screen, producing a spiderweb
matrix of cracks by about the fifth drop. The touch screen, iPhone’s
480-by-320-pixel trademark visage, no longer responded to human touch.
And then came that unfortunate motorcycle event.

Apple’s new multimedia handset is the Timex of phones. Here’s a blow-
by-blow account of how it took PC World’s mauling and kept on calling
(until we literally drove it into the ground).

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AOL Radio may not offer the same element of excitement or surprise as
Pandora’s music-picking engine, but with a song and station history,
favorites, local stations, and collections, it’s a viable contender
for those who aren’t as interested in rating songs or having an
algorithm pick their next jam.

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At 6 a.m. Friday morning, the energy level outside of the Apple Store
in Chandler Fashion Center ranged from people dozing in lawn chairs to
excited early risers on caffeine highs, attempting to strike a
conversation with their sleepier comrades.

“This one is out of date as of today,” he said. “I had a dream about
my new iPhone. I dreamt it was in my hand. Only, in my dream, the one
in my hand was black and I want the white one, so I don’t know
anymore. Is that bad?”

The iPhone 3G is twice as fast as the first generation and includes a
GPS navigation system. It still retains features that made the first
iPhone a must-have — wireless Internet, touch-screen operation
and iPod functions including video. Prices range from $199 for the 8
gigabyte model to $299 for the 16. That’s down from the original
release price of $599 last year. Existing owners don’t get a price
break.

“I just want to sit here and experience this,” said Frederick Tognoli,
who took his seat at 6:30 a.m., coffee in hand. “As much as I’d like
to be a part of the excitement, I’ve already worked a full week.”

Michelle Steiner of Chandler, who retired from the Army in 1983, is
buying her second iPhone. She arrived at 5:40 a.m. and was 21st in
line.

This is her second iPhone release experience, she said. Her first
phone was either lost or stolen two weeks ago.

“Last year was a lot more hectic. More people could wait in line
because it was after work hours,” she said.

Have you ever wanted to be a little monkey in a clear ball and roll
your way through five different worlds? What, you haven’t? Once you
play this game, your mind will be changed forever. The awesome thing
about Monkey Ball is that it’s Nintendo Wii-like, taking advantage of
the iPhone’s motion detection. This means it’s one of the refreshing
few apps that, once you get going, you don’t have to touch the screen
with your finger.

We had limited success finding much using the search field�we found
NPR, but none of our favorite radio stations like WCBS in New York.
This was disappointing, but the genre search works quite well, and the
Top 500 is a great way to discover new music or content. If you like
something, just bookmark it and it’s saved for your next listen.

Urbanspoon shows opening blurbs from various professional and user
reviews, unlike Yelp, which only shows user reviews. That’s where
Urbanspoon on the iPhone falls short. I found that some of the review
links, including many Village Voice reviews, didn’t resolve and
instead linked through to blank Web pages. Still, though, it’s a fun
app if you don’t know where to go to eat.

The iPhone version of the popular business-review site makes it easy
to search for restaurants, bars, coffee shops, banks, gas stations,
and drugstores, especially since it uses either GPS or Wi-Fi
triangulation to grab your location. You can search by neighborhood,
price, category or name to check out businesses’ stats or read
community reviews. You can’t log in and enter reviews of your own,
though. Like any community-dependent site, Yelp works best in cities
and categories where it has a lot of user involvement: most notably,
for restaurants in San Francisco and New York. Searching and scrolling
zips by, even on EDGE. This is a model iPhone application: smooth,
easy, good looking, and efficient.

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death of the Net.

A year ago, I asked one of my NYU students, a proud owner of the old
iPhone if he liked it. He said, “iPhone changed my life”. As simple as
that. A year ago I wasn’t ready to shell out $500 for a life changing
experience (the price has been dropped to $399 later on). Besides, the
older iPhone was Internet-slow (70-150Kbps on AT&T EDGE network). The
new one is 4-5 time faster (200-500Kbps on 3G). At&T is investing
billions of dollars into upgrading their stations from EDGE to 3G.
Yesterday I’ve noticed a little 3G sign on my cellphone, and I live in
a small town 50 miles away from Manhattan.

Android, due in the second half, could reportedly be delayed
until Q4 or maybe even next year, according to the tale the Wall
Street Journal tells, a situation that opens up a can of worms
for Google. Google has to prove that it’s more than a one-trick
pony and that it can deliver some

Nokia wants to buy the 52% of the Symbian operating system that it
doesn’t already own to open source it and set it free. It’s a
defense against advances into the fragmented mobile space that
Nokia and Symbian dominate – particularly – from the looks of case
- against Google’s nascent

“Most important for me is the faster Internet because in the old model
it was much slower,” he said.

“Also the GPS is important, whenever you come up through the subway
and you don’t know where you are, you push the button and there you
are!,” Rappaport said, who admitted “I am probably going to give my
old IP to a family member … but I am a gadget freak so I needed the
new one!”

Zimbra is already available on a host of mobile platforms such as
Windows Mobile, Palm, Nokia, and Blackberry. Their latest support for
the iPhone 2.0 platform will help to increase their market share.
While the iPhone has progressed with its support with email, documents
and more, Zimbra is looking to make it easier for its users to stay
synchronized regarless of the platform.

Zimbra Mobile for iPhone 2.0 software provides users with enterprise
class features including OTA synchronization of e-mails, calendar and
contacts. Zimbra Mobile for iPhone 2.0 software will allow iPhone
users to maximize their business functions on the iPhone.
Additionally, Zimbra Mobile for iPhone will enable OTA photo-sync, so
photos associated with iPhone contacts will sync with the Zimbra
address book as well.

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The Facebook iPhone apps is more of a replica for the the Facebook
site optimized for the iPhone more than anything else. There isn’t
that’s new with this application except for the integrated Facebook
Chat and avatars. However to get the most out of Facebook on your
iphone, you’d be better off just going to the site in Safari. At least
you can post on people’s walls there.

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On the other hand, Midomi’s iPhone App has two nifty features for
identifying unknown music wherever you happen to be. Once the music is
identified, it lets you watch/listen to the song on YouTube or queue
it up for purchase in the iTunes music store the next time you’re
iPhone is connectd to Wi-Fi. In addition, users can send each other
songs they’ve identified, and rack up IDs in their online profile.

Business was supposed to be different today, thanks to the iPhone. But
so far, it looks like new software for Apple’s device
hasn’t changed much.

That’s our admittedly unscientific conclusion based on a review
of Apple’s App Store, which sells software designed for the
iPhone. The App Store divides the software into easy-to-search-through
categories, including “business.” Apple publishes running
lists of the 100 most-popular free applications and the 100 most-
popular paid applications. The number of business applications on
either list: one.

In the meantime, information-technology pros now have a retort when
workers ask them to support the iPhone: The business software just
isn’t there yet.

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YoOu love to jump the gun with useless conclusion. Most people are at
work now in the US and it will take a while before they have time to
get their iphone 3G or update their iphone to 2.0.

Why does the media look to destroy everything. The economy is bad
enough. On day one you are critcizing the Iphone. On your day one you
were pooping in you diaper. You should look for companies like Apple
to take us out of the weak economy- not try to tuen off prospective
purchasers.

at&t mobile network are very bad. I was at&t customer. It’s
signal is too weak. So i quit it. I am verizon ’s customer now.
My cellphone is lg 9900 cellphone. I feel very good.

I like Apple products, but I’m not an Apple Fan boy… still
I’d have to say this article is USELESS and PRE-MATURE…
How could say that a product that’s only been out for LESS THAN
A DAY is a failure because it doesn’t have a lot of business
applications YET? YOU TOTALLY LOST ANY CREDIBILITY You MIGHT have had.

Does a Blackberry even have the ability to use 3rd-party applications?
If so, I haven’t heard about them, and if not, then what is the
author comparing the iPhone to? The iPhone hasn’t yet penetrated
business users for the obvious reasons. The fact that it now has the
**capability** to use 3rd party apps puts it ahead of every other
smartphone. You expect corporations to have already written software
before they were able to evaluate the product for its security etc.?

How could Ben Worthen who wrote such idiotic article work under the
shield of The Wall Street Journal?

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BANGKOK/SHANGHAI (Reuters) – The new iPhone looks set to be a huge hit
in Asia countries where it goes on sale on Friday, but the sleek
smartphone is already in high demand in black markets from Shanghai to
Bangkok.

In Thailand, a Southeast Asian hub for pirated goods where Apple Inc’s
(AAPL.O: ) iPhone is not officially for sale, dealers boast they only
need a few weeks to smuggle in the trendy phones and “unlock” them for
use on local mobile networks.

An old iPhone with 8-gigabytes of memory now costs 22,000-24,500 baht,
up from 16,500-18,500. A model with twice the memory fetches
25,000-28,000 baht, up around 5,000 baht from a few months ago.

I hope they don’t sale that many. So they can bring down the price for
people that are not eligible for an upgrade.

Here’s the facts: Everyone knows Apple has the whole packaging thing
locked down. They’ve been doing it for years and you could say Apple
helped kickstart the unboxing fad of the recent years with pretty
packaging, but now after years of the same, usual Apple packaging and
unboxing, it’s finally time to retire this blogging fad. Here’s a tip
for the aspiring bloggers out there: Stop the unboxings! It’s !
Rather, take the time you would have spent taking hundreds of pictures
of every angle of the iPhone, and put it into some sort of a unique
first impression or review. And that doesn’t include “Gee whiz, those
3G speeds sure are fast!” We knew that.

Getting poor Skype sound and want to cut down on international call
costs? Truphone’s new might be worth checking out.

Calling a landline costs 6 cents per minute, and dialing a mobile
phone costs 30 cents per minute. SMS text messaging costs 20 cents.
Calling another Truphone user is free in certain countries, including
the United States, U.K., China, Australia and large parts of Europe.
But you need to be in a Wi-Fi spot.

In April 2007, Vodafone and Orange blocked Truphone’s VoIP capability
on its branded Nokia N95 handsets. In June 2007, T-Mobile in the U.K.
followed suit, blocking calls from its customers to Truphone’s mobile
numbers. But only a month later, a U.K. court forced T-mobile to stop
their blockade.

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“It’s basically redefining what a phone is,” said Raven Zachary, open
source software analyst for industry research firm The 451 Group and
founder of iPhone Dev Camp, a conference for independent developers of
software for iPhones.

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iPhone applications, today announced its first iPhone app approved for
download on Apple’s “App Store,” the myLite™ Colored Strobe and
Flashlight, is now being offered for the ultimate best price of all –
FREE. “Quite simply,” said Joe Sriver, founder and CEO of DoApp,
“we’re making this price reduction to drive home the point that
differentiation matters for consumers, after a confusing first day of
iPhone app offerings comes to a close.”

But not only is this instant “night light” good for reading in the
dark or finding a keyhole in a pinch — shining as bright or brighter
than any traditional or LED flashlight — you can very simply adjust
its light beam for both brightness and color with the two convenient
“slider” controls. Make your light beam more like fluorescent (cool)
or incandescent (warm) light – or any color at all, across the entire
color spectrum – whatever your personal preference is at the moment.
Use the Strobe feature to flash your light in any color at just the
time interval you choose. Or flash your light continuously through the
entire spectrum of colors with the Trippin’ feature, which is great
fun for kids or to dramatize any storytelling situation – not to speak
of trippin’ out at rock concerts.

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“It is worth noting that the Nokia N95 8GB with high speed 3G and
significant handset subsidies now has over twice as many users as the
iPhone across the UK, Germany and France,” observed Goode. “Yet the
iPhone, despite its small user-base, is already in the top 10 handsets
for online browsing in the UK and in the top 5 in France and Germany.
It is giving devices like Nokia’s N Series and Sony Ericsson K and W
Series a definite run for their money.”

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“This is the year that the cell phone becomes an Internet-connecting
machine,” commented Masayoshi Son, president of Softbank Corp., the
only carrier selling the iPhone in Japan, according to The Associated
Press.

Simon Evans, a 39-year-old chef in Hong Kong, told AP that he was
convinced his new iPhone would simplify his life.

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According to AP, Apple is more than halfway to its goal of selling 10
million iPhones by year-end, having already sold 6 million.

Some say the App Store could be the bigger draw to the iPhone than its
other major selling points, namely prices that are $200 lower than the
previous iPhone and the ability to run on a faster cellphone network.

“I got here at midnight,” said Rob Ven, who still hadn’t managed to
get inside the store as of 10 a.m. “Man, it sounds so desperate when
you say it like that.”

With the help of private security guards, Rogers staff appeared to be
letting in one customer roughly every 10 or 15 minutes. Meanwhile,
rumours of iPhone shortages and problems with Rogers’ computer systems
spread through the crowd of about 100, who formed a long line along
Yonge St.

“Systems are slow and there were periods where they were down but at
last check, they are up and running,” she said in the early afternoon.
“Our customers are experiencing some wait times for our customer
activation and even the process of ‘unbricking’ (unlocking) as iTunes
was experiencing unprecedented demand worldwide.”

A spokesperson for AT&T Inc., the exclusive carrier for the iPhone in
the U.S., said a global problem with Apple Inc.’s iTunes software
prevented the phones from being fully activated in-store.

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The 3G iPhone goes on sale this Friday, and the launch hype is already
in overdrive–but is the device really going to take the corporate
world by storm, as O2 hopes?
O2 claims there’s a lot of interest from business–largely because
Apple has licensed Microsoft’s ActiveSync protocol, so Exchange users
will be able to get push e-mail, calendar and contacts on the . This
is why the operator has finally launched iPhone business tariffs.
Previously, U.K. enterprises determined to get the 2.5G iPhone had to
sign up to an O2 consumer tariff.

So even if senior execs get their hands on iPhones, the iTunes factor
may make some corporates reluctant to push devices out to the rank and
file.

Of course the main problem with the iPhone is that companies not doing
business with their country’s exclusive iPhone carrier (or its B2B
partners) can’t adopt the hardware–and are very unlikely to go to the
hassle of immediately changing network operators just to get a couple
of iPhones. A radical strategy shift from Apple–moving to a multiple-
operators model–would be needed before the phone becomes an option
for the majority of U.K. businesses. As it stands, the iPhone’s
enterprise reach can only go so far at this point.

The operator factor is one of two main reasons why Associated
Newspapers, a Vodafone customer, will “unfortunately…not be
deploying or supporting iPhones in the near term,” according to CIO
Ian Cohen.

As one Mac developer said: “The iPhone is not just a phone; it’s a
whole new platform for developing consumer and enterprise apps. And I
think it’s the first truly mobile computing environment where
consumers and developers are excited.

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For years, Apple has paid little attention to products for enterprise
users. Now it’s pitching its new iPhone 3G as: “The best phone for
business. Ever”. But has it got the package right?
The update lets companies push email to the smartphone and supports
communication with Microsoft Exchange mail servers using ActiveSync.
There’s in-built Cisco VPN, location services using GPS (but no
driving directions) and, of course, the fast 3G networking. It will
also allow businesses to deliver enterprise applications to the
handset without any intermediary. Here at ZDNet.co.uk, we wondered
what ordinary business users would make of these new features. We
asked readers: “Is it enough? Could you see yourself using the iPhone
in your workplace?” Here’s what they said.

GPS was not essential, but I’m glad it is there now. Usability is the
key though. As someone said to me the other day: “There a loads of
phones out there that ‘do email’, but they are normally complicated to
set up.” The iPhone philosophy of making these tasks simpler is well
known to Mac users. Only criticism at the moment is the lack of
choice of network provider in the UK. I’m sure O2 are great (I have no
experience of them) but it would be best to have some choice here.

• The single tasking OS, crippling users in their ability to
multitask • Single UK carrier O2–our organization if 95%+
Vodafone 2,000 devices • Device security/data encryption.
Corporate data will be stored on these device and people lose them
• Corporate controlled firewall required to safeguard device and
users • Lack of CESG approval to use in government systems
development of corporate applications

Its camera is just not suitable yet for me to use to replace my
compact digital, which I use not only for basic photography but also
to record whiteboards from consulting sessions. Two megapixels is not
quite enough for this to be reliable. I would be happy with 4-plus.

Ignacio Toro Lyng I’m missing: • Microsoft office capacity
(this is Excel, Word and PowerPoint). • A good quality camera
for taking photos and video. It must be at least 7 megapixels for
photos, and a good quality for video. • Great memory capacity,
and the possibility to expand it with a microSD card. • The
possibility of installing two phone chips, so I could have two lines
in the same phone (my work, and my personal number). • The
possibility of blocking the numbers of certain people who I don’t want
to answer, and send them immediately to the voicemail. •
Capacity to install Skype and Messenger working with all the
functionality of a computer. • The possibility of backing up my
important documents in my iPhone. This is a functionality like a
external hard drive (an easy and quick backup).

Simon Stahn It may finally be ready as a business tool. In terms of
features, 3G is a nice-to-have, but GSM works just as well —
it’s just user perception, as we all like a bit of speed. GPS on
phones is a little gimmicky, but Cisco’s VPN client should give the
iPhone a little security boost. However, lack of on-board encryption
will still hamper the iPhone’s adoption in security-conscious
organizations. Proper Exchange connectivity will be a key for many
organizations, if only as a final excuse for management to buy some.

Tomorrow is a big day for people having urge to get a hold of the new
iPhone 3G. 8AM. Sharp. Apple stores open their doors and those who
didn’t mind waiting in line for a couple of days (in Hawaii people
formed lines 6 days ago) will get this baby.

The other thing I like about the new gadget is a new audio output that
allows to plug in any headphones you like.

Apple has introduced a number of extensions to the JavaScript
programming language to assist iPhone Web developers. Including
new fast lookup functions, native SVG graphics processing, CSS
effects, database storage and full screen mode. These new
functions will transform the way

TechInsights will analyze the Apple 3G iPhone, to be released on
July 11. TechInsights’ divisions, TechOnline, Portelligent, EE
Times and Semiconductor Insights, will collaborate to
investigate the second-generation handset to provide technical
detail about the new iPhone for rea

People reportedly waited in lines for several hours and some even
camped out overnight to purchase the new and improved phones, only to
have problems getting them to activate.

Trade Deficit
Everyone would agree they see more “Made in
Taiwan/China/Japan/etc…”tags than “Made in the USA” tags for the
past several years. Well, that “Made in _____” tag on your clothing
has an economic term sewn into it: trade deficit. A trade deficit
happens when one country buys more goods than it sells to other
countries.

But, countries aren’t businesses. They are, well, countries, and can
print all the money they want. People who deal with currencies, or
each country’s version of money, look at trade deficits as one way to
find out how much each country’s currency is worth. If you have to
print more money, each dollar you print can possibly lower the value
of the other dollars out there. Like stocks, you can buy and sell
currencies on what’s called the foreign-exchange market (or, if you
want a buzzword for the office, say Forex market).

Well, because the U.S. has been buying a lot of stuff from China for
many, many years, China holds a lot of U.S. dollars. If China were to
sell those dollars on the market at some point, well, it wouldn’t be
very good. The U.S. dollar’s value would fall — making imports and
traveling abroad much more expensive.

Trade deficits are usually a good thing, because it shows that the
global economy is working. It’s just when a trade imbalance gets too
high where economists and investors start to become concerned.

“As consumers shift their behavior and use more mobile devices and
services, we want to continue to provide the best tools for them to
find the news and information they need,” said Mike Potter, Director
of New Product Innovation for Internet Broadcasting. “NowLocal is
another example of the broad range of products and services that we
plan to offer to publishers, advertisers and consumers.”

– Automatically updates as the user moves to provide hyper-local news
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– Thousands of leading news sources ranging from newspapers to
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In June, AdMob served 51.8 million iPhone-optimized ads Worldwide, a
32% increase from the 39.1 million ads served in May. Of all the ads
during the period, 34 millions were served in the US, a 31% increase
from the 25.9 million ads in May.

iPhone ads served through AdMob include such features as the store
locator with integration of Google maps, click to call, and click to
play video.

NEW YORK A slew of major media companies have launched new
applications for Apple’s latest iPhone. Looking to make a splash on
the new high speed, portable Web device/cell phone are The New York
Times Co., IGN, Bravo and AOL. For example, AOL plans to release three
free applications to iPhone’s soon-to-be surging user base: an AOL
Instant Messenger application, another for AOL Radio and a third for
its video search product Truveo. Apple, much like Facebook, has opened
the iPhone to outside developers looking to create specific programs
for the device; these applications can be free or commercial in
nature. (For its part, AOL hasn’t said whether it plans to monetize
its applications in any fashion — something that will be worth
watching as more companies flood the market with apps of their own.)
Similarly, NYT is offering a free application that enables users to
read a digital version of the newspaper, whether or not they are
connected to the Web. NYT’s app also features a browsing tool that
allows readers to flip through different news photos and link to
related stories. Other media companies are simply producing pared-down
versions of their Web content for the iPhone. For example, IGN’s
offering is focused solely on game reviews. Along those same lines,
Bravo’s application supplies users with recipes from the series Top
Chef. Other companies launching apps include Fox Interactive Media’s
Photobucket as well as PopCap Games’ Bejeweled 2.

NEW YORK Turner Sports will provide video and text content to Yahoo!’s
NBA, golf and Nascar channels in a partnership whereby Turner will
manage ad sales and the two companies will share revenue.

Stay connected to what’s happening in the advertising industry with
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LOS ANGELES After a five-hour meeting between the Screen Actors Guild
and the studios Thursday, Hollywood is basically back where it started
when talks began on April 15: without a new actors contract. The
studios said Thursday that SAG officially rejected their final offer.
The guild insists that just isn’t so.

It’s funny (or maybe it isn’t), but this year seems to be filled with
a series of non-events in the advertising world. The Super Bowl (or
Stupid Bowl) was a big dud. The upfront came and went with a whimper.

Themed “The Road to Marketing Credibility,” marketers at this
Association of National Advertisers event will discuss measurement and
internal accountability practices.

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The google and cnet members’s viacom

Earlier this month Louis L. Stanton, the senior judge on the United
States District Court for the Southern District of New York, with
Google.

We and others cried out in protest, since the data being delivered
included username, IP address and identifiers of all videos viewed on
. And the entity it was being delivered to has a penchant for
litigating over copyright infringement (some of their many lawsuits
are mentioned in the original post). The fear is that if data is
turned over to Viacom, any YouTube user who has watched a copyrighted
video would be subject to a lawsuit.

Google’s self imposed is “Don’t be evil.” It doesn’t say “don’t be
evil unless there’s important litigation at stake.” Google’s
reputation is on the line, and how they respond will show their true
character. They’ve shown they’ll go to bat for employees, now it’s
time for them to show they’ll go to bat for their users.

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With the debut of the AppStore come a number of native applications
that replicate the functionality of already extant iPhone-optimized
Web sites. The impetus for creation of native applications has, thus
far, been driven by the ability to use location sensitivity, access to
the camera, and other iPhone technologies that are conventionally
inaccessible through MobileSafari.

The “Explore More Google Products” button brings you to a
page that shows all of Google’s Apps on one screen. Touching one
of those App icons results in Safari launching and bringing to that
application.

Tapping the stations button displays stations that AOL recommends,
“What’s New,” AOL and CBS Radio, Genres, and
AOL’s spinner.com. Even on an iPhone using EDGE exclusively,
there was no noticeable interruption

I’m not sure which classic rock song best describes the latest
in the Microsoft / Yahoo battle: “The Song Remains the
Same” or “Saturday Night’s All Right (For
Fighting)”? Both apply in their own right as yes, yet again.

The latest proposal sent to Yahoo on Friday had a 24-hour time limit
to accept. It would have had Microsoft take over Yahoo’s search
business while putting a new board of directors, as chosen by Icahn,
in place to run the rest of the company.

The company knows this and perhaps that is why it bluntly states that
it counter-offered Microsoft the option to buy the entire company for
$33-a-share or enter re-negotiations to just buy its search business.
It claims Microsoft rejected both offers.

I continue to believe that one way or another, this deal is going to
happen. Microsoft simply has no other real options if it is serious
about gaining in the search business, while Yahoo simply looks like it
has no other options — period.

Since the judge issued the order, Viacom has been . “Viacom suggested
the initiative to anonymize the data, and we have been prepared to
accept anonymous information since day one,” said a Viacom spokesman.

According to the sources, Google and Viacom were close to reaching a
deal last week about masking user data when Google backed out.

YouTube maintains that the video-sharing site is an Internet service
provider and is protected by the DMCA’s Safe Harbor provision, which
removes liability from ISPs for illegal acts committed by users. But
the DMCA requires that ISPs not have knowledge of the illegal acts or
not be able to prevent them.

YouTube has always argued that it has no way to prevent users from
uploading unauthorized copies of TV shows, movies, or other
copyrighted material, and adheres to the DMCA by also removing
infringing videos when notified by a copyright owner.

It’s safe to say that many copyright owners are skeptical of these
claims. For years, rumors have circulated in the technology sector
that some of YouTube employees salted the site, especially in its
early days, by posting clips from popular TV shows in order to bring
attention to the site. No evidence of this has ever surfaced.

) 11 comments (Page 1 of 1) by July 12, 2008 12:11 PM PDT I did not
follow with detail this V-G affair but it seems to me that it is
following the SCO-IBM Unix affair in which SCO made a complain that
IBM should prove innocent… just the inverse of common law: you are
innocent up to the moment that you are proved guilty.Am I right? Am I
too far in understanding Viacom/RIAA/etc. lawyers? Reply to this
comment by July 12, 2008 1:54 PM PDT This kind of looks like “Viacom”
is scrabbling, a bit, to continue its, unfocused, IP-lawsuit (and
vicarious responsibility for the actions of others) claims.I also
notice that a totally unproven accusation (that Youtube employees,
allegedly, knowingly allowed, and/or encouraged, copyright-
infringement)… is actually being used to further justify an
apparently, otherwise, clearly dubious- attack.Can you say RED-
HERRING..? But, you know how corporations work… once they start down
a path, no matter how insanely-asinine, they will simply NEVER back-
down (even if… it ends-up tearing them apart, and costing their
stock-holders enormously). Reply to this comment by July 12, 2008 2:54
PM PDT I’d like to see the reverse, that is, the uploading habits of
anyone from a Viacom IP, or using a Viacom (or viacom property domain,
such as comedycentral.com). Did anyone on The Daily Show, or any
staffer of those shows, or any other Viacom company, ever upload
something copyrighted to YouTube? Reply to this comment by July 12,
2008 5:11 PM PDT Relax. Reply to this comment by July 12, 2008 7:49 PM
PDT Viacom just wants to destroy the progression and the future of the
internet because they have LOST to the internet. They are old media,
like newspapers, old like oldy moldy Sumner Redstone. You can’t stop
the new wave, the new generation, Web 2.0, 3.0 what have you. You
either roll with it or it rolls right over you. Have you looked at
Viacom’s stock price lately. That’s a reflection of where they’ll
continue to head which is down, down, down if they don’t get with the
NEW! Reply to this comment by July 12, 2008 7:50 PM PDT Viacom just
wants to destroy the progression and the future of the internet
because they have LOST to the internet. They are old media, like
newspapers, old like oldy moldy Sumner Redstone. You can’t stop the
new wave, the new generation, Web 2.0, 3.0 what have you. You either
roll with it or it rolls right over you. Have you looked at Viacom’s
stock price lately. That’s a reflection of where they’ll continue to
head which is down, down, down if they don’t get with the NEW! Reply
to this comment by July 12, 2008 7:50 PM PDT Viacom just wants to
dessstroy the progression and the future of the internet because they
have LOST to the internet. They are old media, like newspapers, old
like oldy moldy Sumner Redstone. You can’t stop the new wave, the new
generation, Web 2.0, 3.0 what have you. You either roll with it or it
rolls right over you. Have you looked at Viacom’s stock price lately.
That’s a reflection of where they’ll continue to head which is down,
down, down if they don’t get with the NEW! Reply to this comment by
July 12, 2008 7:51 PM PDT Viacom just wants to dessstroy the
progression and the future of the internet because they have LOSSST to
the internet. They are old media, like newspapers, old like oldy moldy
Sumner Redstone. You can’t stop the new wave, the new generation, Web
2.0, 3.0 what have you. You either roll with it or it rolls right over
you. Have you looked at Viacom’s stock price lately. That’s a
reflection of where they’ll continue to head which is down, down, down
if they don’t get with the NEW! Reply to this comment
by July 12, 2008 7:53 PM PDT Viacom will lose to the future of the
internet if they don’t get with the new.
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by July 12, 2008 11:30 PM PDT Chad and the team knew about SNL content
being on YouTube. It’s what made YouTube popular, showing copyrighted
clips from comedy shows off TV. The whole YouTube thing was based on
being an archive of video from all sources. Viacom, NBC Universal,
Disney, Sony, Fox and others should sue YouTube/Google for every
infraction. Basically YouTube is the Napster of video and should be
accountable for theft of copyrighted material. Reply to this comment

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But the cinema companies were very clever in encouraging agencies to
create ads for movie theaters that the TV authorities wouldn’t accept.

But with YouTube, Google has the issue of a dedicated following whose
attention-span rivals that of a hamster having a nervous breakdown.

Those sites that incorporated it early have the benefit of advertising
already being part of their culture.

It will find it very hard to expect its devotees to watch an ad before
every video. (tmz offers a series of videos daily. You only have to
watch one ad. And the one I just looked at was for Herbal Essences,
which promised to treat my non-existent hair to a luscious fragrance.)

When you have accumulated, say, fifty thousand, you could get a prize.
Maybe free child care for a year or something?

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Also, the Chinese media had just reported on a scandal: The owners of
a commercial complex in the Xi’an province had adorned their building
with a mural of what was described as “a long black train with a Nazi-
inspired swastika” on the locomotive. Xinhua news agency quoted a
bystander: “If it’s creative, the businessmen were neglecting people’s
feelings; if that wasn’t their intention, then they do not understand
that part of history.”

Google, it turned out, was right — probably. There is no way to
verify the chain of events, as 4chan posts are not archived and
generally cycle out of view within minutes. And a moderator for 4chan
said, “I’ve seen nothing to denote 4chan was involved at all.”

The flurry of searches for the swastika code — most of which, it
seems, were by people who did not know what the code represented
— shot the swastika itself to the top of the Trends list.

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Billions of dollars in capital and they give us a retread of
[digitalspace.com] from 1996? What’s next, GoogleMUD?

He has a point on porn: the terms of service forbid it, much to my
dismay, I must say. But then, it is open for anyone older than 13 so I
see no way Google could get around that.

Are you kidding me? Porn the ultimate mark of success. The fact that
Lively has it before it has even taken off properly makes it like an
uber stamp of approval. Yes yes.

Besides the fact that guy obviously isn’t a native English speaker,
“several” and “maybe a dozen” seem pretty in line to me. His point
seems to be that Google isn’t being as tight with it as they are with
YouTube, which is certainly true (although I’d suspect that’s a result
of pre-takeover YouTube policies being carried on by Google). It’s not
a matter of any concern to me, but its his opinion. And it’s not like
adding keyboard shortcuts would eliminate mouse usage, as you seem to
think.

I’ve wondered if there could be a market for “Christian porn” that
addresses all the issues they have with it.

Actually, calling it a beta is being generous. There are a lot of
interface quirks and bugs to work out, and the content (as far as
avatars, furniture, clothes, etc.) definitely feels more like a sample
of what will be available. Once they open it up to user created
content, I imagine there will be no shortage of “stuff”. FWIW, I
didn’t really have the connection problems the reviewer had. The whole
thing thing gets a little laggy in a crowded room, especially if the
room is full of junk, but I didn’t have any problems getting in. As
far as the sex themed rooms, they seemed pretty tame to me, at least
for now. (Uh, not that I checked them out or anything.) You’re limited
to streaming videos from YouTube, so you can’t show anything that
wouldn’t pass muster there. You can also display static images in a
“picture frame”, but the frames seems to be pretty broken at the
moment. They seem to only display a small portion of the image,
regardless of the resolution. So, at least for the moment, it’s pretty
much impossible to display anything pornographic. I imagine once they
open it up to user created content, though, it will become yet another
haven for furries.

I looked at this the other day and it seemed to claim to be a “Windows
only” service. My Windows system was busy at the time, so I didn’t
investigate further and it was unclear if they planned on supporting
other platforms in future. That’s a non-starter in my book.

Direct hit to the nail head. I was truly let down with Second Life. I
will even go back here and there to see if things changed but they
never do. Last time I ventured into second life I searched for ‘Beach’
and was treated to a picture of a girl fingering herself. I had hopes
for Second Life for businesses that I work with to have open house and
virtual tours for lodging. I would not think about suggesting it
anymore.

It could be a good thing if it was an antimatter copy of Second Life,
which was then brought into contact with the original Second Life.

Do you have a lawn, and if so, any particular thoughts on where I
should be in relation to it?

iPhone/iPod touch only: Google’s first offering in the iPhone App
Store comes in the form of Google Mobile, an application that
integrates your local contacts and the web for seamless searching
between the two. Developed in part by one of our favorite programmers
Nicholas Jitkoff (), Google Mobile brings many of the things we love
about Quicksilver to the iPhone—namely universal search. From
one search box, you can look up web sites (I’m Feeling Lucky-style),
entries on Wikipedia, call any contact, or access their contact card.
The app also uses your location data for local search, so searching
for pizza will give you a link to search for pizza places in Google
Maps.

The most innovative feature in the Google Mobile interface is the
auto-suggest, which provides autocompletion of queries and suggestions
in a scrollable bar below the search results. Also, you’ll notice that
the screenshot has a small call icon next to the contact. When you
first search a contact this isn’t available, but after you call
someone once through the Google Mobile interface, it sets that number
as the default for the little call icon. If you don’t want the
universal search, you can limit searches to local, images, news,
shopping, or Wikipedia.

you in the US, Jono? I tried to see that google mobile thingie from
the swiss app store, but not to be found there, so I switched over to
the US store, and presto, there it was

@: not sure if my first msg went thru, jono, are you located in the
US? if not, well, that’s the culprit, didnt see google mobile in the
swiss app store myself, then switched over to the US store, and
presto, there it was

, Jul 11, 2008 07:24 PM
On Thursday evening, Google threw open the doors of its San Francisco
office to members of the media and San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom.
Though Google’s San Francisco office has been , the dust has cleared
and Google wanted to celebrate.

I mean, how much applause do you think Newsom would have received had
he said its all about patents, servers, lack of competent competitors,
and consumer inertia?

DomainKeys is an e-mail or reject it outright. Yahoo! (which owns the
patent) has long been a proponent on this system, but many ISPs also
like SPF (Sender Policy Framework), and Microsoft backs SenderID.

SPF, DKIM, and SenderID are not the cure-all for spam, and they aren’t
intended to be. But they are effective in weeding out spam in some
cases. They don’t work in the same way, but towards the same goal.

Indoctrination into the socio-liberal philosophy can be very
expensive. Just look at the high cost in California, and they aren’t
providing any basic education at all.

Campaigners have attacked the move as an invasion of privacy but
Google defended its actions, stating that it employs face-blurring
technology.

Street Map already allows people in the US to navigate using the
innovative tool. In addition, cycling enthusiasts can currently trace
the Tour de France route.

Google has confirmed it is now in the process of photographing Britain
as part of the Street View project.

The spokeswoman added: “The technology isn’t perfect – it will
sometimes miss a face or licence plate, for example if they are
partially covered, or at a difficult angle – but we make it easy
within the product for users to report a face or licence plate for
extra blurring, or to ask for their image to be removed.”

Simon Davies, of Privacy International, wrote to Google outlining his
concern that claims of protection are being made that cannot be
upheld.

With petabytes of data floating around, Google developed its own
protocol for data interchange and now it’s open sourcing it.

Google’s documentation on Protocol Buffers noted that the new format
has numerous advantages over XML. Among the advantages cited by Google
is the fact that Protocol Buffers could be 3 to 10 times smaller and
20 to 100 times faster than XML for serializing structured data.

According to Google’s documentation, protocol buffers were initially
developed at Google to deal with an index server request/response
protocol.

“There is some patent activity around Protocol Buffers, but I’d like
to point out that we use the Apache license, which grants permission
to use any applicable patents,” DiBona told InternetNews.com.

So far, Google has included support for C++, Java, and Python for
protocol buffers, though other languages are welcome.

Cloud computing, in which software runs not on PCs or company servers
but instead on computers on the Internet, requires something of a leap
of faith both technologically and culturally. Those making the move
must get accustomed to a reliance on somebody else’s computing
infrastructure, and that can be scary.

Salesforce.com shows details about service responsiveness and
specifics about problems that do emerge. (Click image to see larger
version.)

There are two broad categories of cloud computing. First are online
applications such as Google’s Apps, on which customers can run their
own applications.

Amazon.com, too, offers a . “A service dashboard is something our
developers asked us for, and we made the service available to them as
soon as possible,” said spokeswoman Kay Kinton.

“You can’t get away from owning your own risk. This is slowing the
adoption of the cloud,” she said.

Those with high-end services boast of “five nines” of reliability,
where services are available 99.999 percent of the year and therefore
down no more than 5 minutes and 15 seconds per year. Google’s Gmail
SLA, at 99.9 percent uptime, promises downtime of less than 9 hours
per year.

by July 12, 2008 7:05 AM PDT 99.9% available? What’s the use of online
storage when it’s not available? Reply to this comment by July 12,
2008 8:18 AM PDT Interesting that we don’t hear reporting about the
daily or weekly brief outages at most of the fortune 1000 companies.
The Amazon cloud is running at 99.9993 from the time we started using
it at DigitalChalk in 2006. I’d like to see that beat in a do-it-
yourself data center. Reply to this comment by July 12, 2008 5:14 PM
PDT Maybe. Reply to this comment by July 12, 2008 7:37 PM PDT If you
ask me, the scariest part of the growing trend of cloud computing and
storage is that if a big part of the system shuts down for long time,
it could be catastrophic to more than just individuals, or companies,
or even industries, but entire economies and whole populations. If we
ALL depend on the cloud, which in time I think we will, we will all be
at risk of cyber-terrorism, super-viruses, or just a simple breakdown
(ok, not simple, but old fashioned I guess). Reply to this comment

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The term cloud computing started when network architects started
drawing diagrams for their presentations. The architects had symbols
for computers and servers and hard drives and switches, but they
didn’t have a universal symbol that represented “the Internet.”

It became common to talk of pushing data “into the cloud” to represent
using the internet to send files to and from servers and Web sites.

For example, if the entire United States (all 300 million of us) made
only 100 shirts this year, and if all of China made 100 shirts, some
of those shirts would be traded between us- we would sell a few to
China, and vice versa. But a trade deficit happens when one country
sells more shirts than another. China, in this example, could sell 85
shirts to America. The U.S. could sell 55 shirts to China. So, in this
trade, China sold more shirts to the United States, 30 more in
fact.Most businessmen and economists believe that most trade deficits
aren’t a bad thing; it’s just part of trade, and at some point trade
between two countries should balance out eventually.

Why does this matter? Well, in order to buy those shirts, you need
money. And if you are buying more shirts than you’re selling shirts,
you’re losing money. If you’re a business, you won’t be in business
much longer.

DigitalGlobe operates three imaging satellites: Worldview I, Worldview
II, and QuickBird. These satellites collect the highest resolution
commercial imagery of the Earth, and offer the largest image size, and
greatest on-board storage capacity and resolution compared to any
other commercial satellite imagery available today.

The market has become increasingly aware of the advantages of
navigation and Global Positioning System (GPS) tools, especially for
vehicle navigation systems. These tools include both built-in systems
and Personal Navigation Devices (PNDs), which are handheld devices
that users can carry with them and use in their vehicles. Industry
analysts estimate that sales of PNDs will grow from approximately 14
million units in 2006 to approximately 56 million units in 2011. As
the demand for these personal navigation devices continues to grow, so
does the need for better quality images covering more parts of the
world.

Columbus Geographic Systems (GIS) Ltd. is a rising player in the field
of geographic information systems (GIS) and navigation applications.
The Company brings advanced software capabilities to a wide range of
users and devices, previously only accessible to trained professionals
on dedicated devices.

– Innovative, affordable GIS tools easily used in a range of
applications, including businesses, agriculture, surveys, and
government agencies.

Certain statements in this news release may contain ‘forward-looking’
information within the meaning of the Federal securities laws. All
statements, other than statements of fact, included in this release
may include forward-looking statements that may involve risks and
uncertainties.

Middle England’s howitzers have turned full force on Google today, as
the finally wanders into the debate about the legal status of Google
Street View.

The internet giant’s StreetView website will allow anyone in the world
to type in a UK address or postcode and instantly see a 360-degree
picture of the street.

However, the paper’s influence and its spittle-spewing rage are new
additions to the mix – and there’s an extra political angle, too.

But in this case, Cameron has very close links with Google – - and
it’ll be interesting to see if the Mail gets the Tory front bench to
take a stand on this issue, or if it just slides into history as
another one of the paper’s moments of fury.

Personally, I’m torn. I use the US version of Street View a lot, but
don’t like the idea of a surveillance society. However, given the
number of CCTV cameras which spy on me every day, I’m not sure that a
Google car counts as the biggest infringement of my liberties right
now.

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I’d trust Google more than most governments, particularly ours and the
US, anyway – which in itself is very worrying. I have big issues with
our surveillance society, but as you say this is a snapshot and not
rolling film like the 300+ CCTV cameras that supposedly capture us
each day. I love using the US one to show people around where I used
to live so although it goes against some of my issues with privacy I
have to admit that I’ve been looking forward to this announcement and
can’t wait to use it.

I’m happy to be corrected and to remember in future to ask for a Data
Protection form when I’m next asking some organisation or business for
their footage of me.

But the reality is that I can point my camera into the public space in
front of my building and record it to my heart’s content. And I don’t
suppose that there’s anything to stop me putting it online or sending
it in to one of those “People do the funniest things..” type shows.

As you say, if you’re in a public place, then by the very nature of
that place, you can be seen, photographed and videoed.

I think it’s a terrible invasion of privacy, which is why I’m going to
render their photo of my house useless by standing naked in the front
window at all times.

If you search for a homeopathic cold cure, for example, on the Google
search engine then you will soon be bombarded by every quack medicine
man in California. Every single time you ‘Google’ something, the fact
is automatically recorded.”

Since the Peck case (http://www.out-law.com/page-3290) Authorities
have become very nervy about what is released and how. I personally
have had several complaints from people about how hard it is to get
their images but none from any about how they have been given out.

Oh and it really isn’t like Enemy of the State. Most systems are so
underfunded that we cheer when we can get a copy off within the
confines of our own room never mind having the infrastructure to allow
MI5 to hack in.

@lb001: “Is that libelous?” You can’t (except in extreme
circumstances) libel an organisation or company. I was going to make a
comment about the other quotes you offered but then realised those
*might* be libellous because they would be about a person. So I’ll
restrain myself to pointing out that Google doesn’t sell its data, and
doesn’t deal in phone numbers, so it can’t have any connection with
cold callers. However I can’t find the AN Wilson piece on the Mail’s
site, so perhaps he didn’t say that.

@CharlesArthur. Daily Mail have removed it, but it is still available
in a cache form, if you type “invasion almost criminal” into Google,
and click the second, indented link.

I would have thought this was clear cut defamation of a company – and
they are very likely to sue in a case where they have been accused of
misusing personal data and selling it to spam companies. Or at least
they should!

Slander is when you make a wrongful comment about an individual,
defamation is when you make one about a company or organisation, I
believe. Although that might be wrong!

@lb001 @Charles. Bizarley the Mail seems to have left a text version
of the “almost criminal” (almost insane?) words of AN Wilson. So just
to ensure they are not lost for posterity:

You are being watched. Not by the KGB, or by the Inland Revenue, or
even by one of those strange vans parked in your street, which purport
to know whether or not you own a television licence.

This is good news for snoopers, stalkers, peeping Toms and burglars.
But are its advantages to the rest of us really going to outweigh the
obvious disadvantages?

Aren’t invasions of personal privacy by commercial companies every bit
as indefensible as similar intrusions into our lives by a Big Brother
state?

If you are used to European habits of shopping, it is a vaguely
threatening experience, and it is nice to get home, and to feel that
shopping in the ‘civilised’ world is all a little different.

And most of us would think that some element of discreet intrusion by
the State was legitimate.

The matter of Google is of a quite different order. This is a computer
company which is spying upon us for the sole purpose of exploiting us,
controlling us and making money out of us.

Identity theft is one of the growing crimes of our age. A clever
manipulator of computers can reconstruct from a single electricity
bill, or one credit card, a huge raft of information about us,
including our bank account numbers and even our medical records. Such
thefts are rightly regarded as crimes.

I am always very suspicious about people who do not like security
cameras etc…. What are they doing that they do not want the rest of
us to know about? These people need investigating.

Don’t worry if you aren’t getting an O2 iPhone – nobody else is
either. Especially if they haven’t sent their passport. (Updated;
again)

After a piece here in April suggesting advertising is waning, Thinkbox
is here to tell you it isn’t. But do you agree?

San Francsico Mayor Gavin Newsom (left) with Google co-founder Larry
Page at event held at Google’s Mountain View headquarters last year

I don’t know. He never seems to miss a chance to celebrate with the
Internet colossus and its founders, with whom he is close friends.

“I have been beating on Larry and Sergey for years” to open an office
in San Francisco. City-dwelling employees who traded city fog for the
sun that beams over Google’s Mountain View headquarters seemed pleased
with their shorter, commutes.

The open house was attended by employees from all facets of Google’s
massive organization, including Google.org and the newbies from the
Doubleclick acquisition. Headlining the event was one of Google’s top
executives and public faces, Marissa Mayer.

“This is a city of doers and dreamers,” overflowing with technology
and new-media companies drawn to a place that celebrates, not just
tolerates, diversity, Newsom said, drawing applause.

Michelle Quinn covers computers and digital music. She has chronicled
the digital revolution since 1993, when she wrote for the first issue
of Wired magazine about how computers were changing Hollywood special
effects. She covered Netscape’s 1995 public offering for the San
Francisco Chronicle and rode the roller coaster of the dot-com boom
and bust for the San Jose Mercury News. In the evenings, the Delaware
native can be found at home watching TV shows and movies on her
laptop, with another nearby to surf the Web. michelle.quinn @
latimes.com

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Yahoo Inc. has rejected Microsoft’s latest
attempt to buy its online search operations in a “take or leave it”
proposal that Yahoo said would have dismantled its Internet franchise.

Yahoo said it received the complex proposal Friday and was given less
than 24 hours to respond.

“It is ludicrous to think that our board could accept such a
proposal,” Yahoo Chairman Roy Bostock said in the statement. “While
this type of erratic and unpredictable behavior is consistent with
what we have come to expect from Microsoft, we will not be bludgeoned
into a transaction that is not in the best interests of our
stockholders.”

Yahoo said it unsuccessfully reiterated its willingness to sell the
entire company to Microsoft for $47.5 billion, or $33 per share
— a bid that the software maker dangled in early May before
withdrawing it in a pique over Yahoo Chief Executive Jerry Yang’s
demand for $37 per share.

Microsoft in May offered to buy Yahoo’s search operations for $1
billion and to spend another $8 billion to acquire a 16 percent stake
in Yahoo’s remaining operations.

Instead of selling its search engine to Microsoft, Yahoo opted to
forge an advertising partnership with rival Google Inc. That
represented a bit of irony because Google’s dominance of the Internet
search advertising market is the primary reason that Microsoft is
pursuing Yahoo.

Yahoo has estimated that it can boost its annual revenue by about $800
million by relying on Google’s superior technology to show some ads
alongside the search results on its Web site.

Google has quietly ventured into the virtual worlds space with a web-
based 3D chat application called Lively. Does it matter?

Google’s Lively team seem to want you to, uh, hang around in some cool
online chat rooms and exchange virtual hugs. To be honest, the whole
thing seems a bit underwhelming. Its launch reminds me a bit of
Google’s social network site, Orkut. This was another project, like
Lively, that was developed by a Google employee in part of the
“20 per cent time” devoted to individual pet projects, and
another one that has not really set the world alight. Orkut is a
perfectly respectable online community, but of course something of an
also-ran in a world now dominated by My Space and Facebook.

For now, Lively is what we’ve got: that’s the science fact. However,
given Google’s extraordinary scale and the immense possibilities
created by its huge web audience, I can’t help thinking more along the
lines of science fiction, imagining where Google could take this
technology and do something really interesting with it.

The second unique advantage is Google Earth. This is already an
amazing creation, a mirror world of incredible richness available free
on most PCs. You can already see the planet from space, dive down to
the street level and see incredible detail in 360-degree panoramas.
You can already build your own 3D buildings and add them to Google
Earth, and Google continues to add more content to this remarkable
piece of software.

However, imagine if Google Earth became a portal to other virtual
spaces. If you were in business mode, you could fly in via Google
Earth to check the name of that company whose building you keep
driving past, find its real-world buildings, use them to launch its
webpage, and then enter its Lively virtual space to interact with some
real employees. As a tourist, you could fly into New York, check out
the hotels in the area near where your friends live, and then fly your
avatar into the hotel’s Lively space to talk to someone about getting
a deal on a weekend break.

Google Earth comes alive because it’s a living, breathing online
community which uses the power of social networks to layer value onto
a planet simulation. You enter a 3D space but can then easily locate
and activate 2D web information, such as pictures or Wikipedia
entries. It’s this integration of 2D and 3D which is so powerful, and
Google, which dominates the world’s text-based information and has
hell of a leg up in 3D via Google Earth, seems to me well placed to
create the ultimate mash-up of real and virtual world content. It will
be interesting to see how Lively develops, but for now, we don’t need
another stand alone virtual space: the real magic will happen when
these worlds start to collide.

Thomas Claburn for the iPhone in his post from earlier today. He also
points out that the application points you to other Google products.
But they are browser-based applications, and not on-board native
applications. I was hoping for much more.

This week saw yet another Google product hit the virtual streets.�
This one, Lively, is one of those 20 per cent time projects. You know,
the pet projects that Google encourages their employees to work on.�
So what is it?� It’s basically virtual rooms or locations that
you can create for chatting with friends.� It reminds me a lot of the
days when chat rooms started offering avatars.� Only now, they move
and look a whole lot more like actual people.

I can see Lively being implemented into Android, Apple and other
mobile platforms before too long.� Why send a boring old text message
to someone, when you can chat them up on the roof of a high-rise or in
the middle of the jungle?� Bring a handful of your friends in and
spend time debating the latest episode of The Hills or whatever kids
are watching these days. It would be easy to open the program or point
your browser to the chat rooms and talk away.

With no native application to install, it would likely not be a drain
on your battery.� Having an always available connection like 3G or Wi-
Fi would ensure that you can hop in and out of rooms at your leisure.�
To top it all off, location based chat rooms and hangouts would be
sure to go over well.� Imagine a room full of high school students
talking to each other in front of a landmark.� Or virtual tour guides
to answer questions from visitors and tourists. I could see virtual
movie or television sets where you can meet your favorite stars for
some Q&A.

Andy on :
I suppose Lively does have potential, but definitely needs a lot of
work to be the sort of app I’d like it to be. The biggest
problem with it, currently, is all the sexually oriented rooms that
are popping up all over the place, when this is a service meant for
those as young as 13. Either Google needs to do a better job with
blocking, or removing unsuitable content or they need to separate them
out (i.e. have 13 & older rooms and 18 & older rooms that are in a
separate location). For now I’m staying away until they have
some sort of legitimate solution figured out.

In addition to updating the popular Twitter and facebook service, it
can also tie in to your Google calendar and import from TripIt and
Doplr… cool. The tie in to Google Calendar is very powerful and
something that users are going love! See video demo below (source:
http://vimeo.com/1313233) – I can’t wait for a mobile client!

Learn to address security risks in wireless handheld computing systems
with a solution that provides end-to-end security

Serves the decision makers responsible for networking, voice data, and
video communications technologies at enterprise and service provider

… where retail meets industry – The fourth edition of the No. 1
European Navigation Event will take place in the inspiring environment
of the High Tech Campus in Eindhoven, The Netherlands.

Google has released as open source a web application assessment tool,
Ratproxy, that was designed to root out potential security flaws.

“We decided to make this tool freely available as open source because
we feel it will be a valuable contribution to the information security
community, helping advance the community’s understanding of security
challenges associated with contemporary web technologies,” Zalewski
wrote. He added that Ratproxy is intended to complement active
crawlers and manual proxies, as well as other passive proxies.

Google has come under increasing pressure in recent months to tighten
its security strategy. Last month StopBadware.org, a site sponsored by
Google, found that Google itself was one of the top five networks
hosting malicious web pages, largely due to the popularity among
attackers of Google-owned networks such as Blogger. The other four
top-five networks were based in China.

What was achieved there is recognised to be of fundamental importance
to both winning the war (Churchill visited to say ‘thank you’ to them)
and the development of the computer. Maybe Bill Gates doesn’t want to
support this museum because it underlines where electronic computing
started i.e. here, not the U.S.

It was not so long ago, April 1, 2004, when Google mail first
appeared. In 2005 there were 5.4 mln subscribers and 51 mln in early
2007. Do you know how many Gmail accounts were registered…

Hello, I’m a PC. I’m a Handheld. Author: Eric Everson,
Founder MyMobiSafe.com I have said it before and I am sure I’ll
say it again, mobile devices are simply replacing computers….

Google will no longer forward eBay and PayPal phishing emails to
recipients using its (DKIM) standard. The protocol provides for simple
signing of outgoing email using a key which is valid for the relevant
domain and can be queried by the recipient via the domain and matched
with the incoming email.

A DERBY academic believes criminals will be getting
“fatter”, sitting at home planning burglaries, thanks to a
controversial new website.

Internet giant Google has now deployed a fleet of camera cars in
Britain, where critics are branding the site an invasion of privacy.

A spokeswoman said: “Google works hard to make sure our products
respect both users’ expectations of privacy, and local privacy laws,
in each country in which they are launched.”

Campaigners fighting plans to build four 335-ft high wind turbines at
Carsington Pasture have criticised claims that they would not affect
local views ,

By Cassidy FriedmanStaff writerThe people at Google first felt obliged
to capture images of the boring U.S. cities in their virtual tour of
America.Places like Manhattan, San Francisco and Los Angeles.But Twin
Falls locals say they’ve spotted the Internet company’s distinctive
camera car in their town, a sign the company must be planning to add
this town to the ranks of the big cities.The company can’t actually
say for sure – the cars now traversing the nation operate
independently. But a Google spokeswoman said it’s likely the car -
which shoots 360-degree street-level photographs of all public roads
where it travels – cruised through Twin Falls earlier this
month.Chances are, the car spotted in Twin Falls was first deployed to
a larger metropolitan area like Boise, before it expanded its trip
east through Twin Falls, said spokeswoman Elaine Filadelfo.”We have
over 60 metropolitan areas,” Filadelfo said. “And within each of those
metropolitan areas we really try to include the surroundings. We think
everywhere can benefit from this. We think everybody, whether they
live in New York or Twin Falls can benefit.”Filadelfo said each car in
Google’s large fleet is armed with a sophisticated camera mounted on
its roof that shoots still photographs at and between
intersections.The photos, to be added to Google Maps at some
unspecified date in coming months, allows an on-screen visual tour.One
reason for the StreetView effort is to allow users the novelty of
taking a virtual drive through most American cities and a dozen or so
national parks. But the program also satisfies practical needs,
Filadelfo said.In one Midwestern state, department of transportation
officials use the program to identify dilapidated roads they need to
pave, Filadelfo said. It saves gas and time, they said. Viewers can
check out a restaurant’s ambience – at least exterior – before they
dine there. They can see a neighborhood before they rent a home on the
block.”We’ve seen a lot of really great uses of it and heard some
great feedback,” the spokeswoman said.It’s unclear how long the photos
will be of use, however. The company is unclear on when it might make
subsequent passes and update the street scenes.Google hit a patch of
rough road when some members of the public caught in StreetView’s
frames complained the photographs posted online invaded their
privacy.Viewers could request their face or private property be
blotted out.When shooting Manhattan in May, Google blurred all the
faces in its imagery, Filadelfo said.By June, despite having the clear
legal upper hand to shoot photographs of what takes place in public,
Google began blurring faces in all its shots. So don’t expect to be
famous for anything but your shirt and shoes, Twin Falls.”We thought
the focus was on business and geography and it just seemed a way to
preserve that,” Filadelfo said.Cassidy Friedman may be reached at
208-735-3241 or .

Obviously the swastika carries hateful connotations. But if a service
purports to accurately represent people’s searches, who gets to decide
what counts as offensive? The swastika isn’t a derogatory term or
obscene word; it’s a symbol with a history.

“Despite the ancient origins of the symbol, most folks today don’t
recognize it as a symbol of Hinduism — its primary meaning has been
its association with the murderous racism of the Nazis.”

Who, exactly, are “most folks”? Obviously Adina is being a bit racist
herself to discount the views of over a billion people (Indians), and
others, whose primary association of a swastika is not murderous
racism but something quite the opposite. Why does the negative
association that white western culture has with the Swastika
(presumably what is meant by “most people”) trump the beautiful
symbolic meaning held by southeast Asians?

I am surprised and dismayed that Google removed swastika from Google
Trends. After all, people will continue to search for swastika, trends
or no trends.

If “most” people fail to realise that it is an integral part of
Hinduim, then they are clearly ignorant. Worse, they are not prepared
to learn either.

If the sight of the swastika does offend you, then I may suggest no
traveling Asia east of Pakistan, because you can’t miss it. I think
the most blatant clashing of East and West, in regards to the
swastika, I’ve encountered was in Kochi in the Jewish Quarter, where a
simple spice shop, owned by Indian Jews is named ‘Swastik Spices’. And
the swastika is proudly displayed on their sign, windows, business
card and labels, right facing. i would gladly post the picture from
that establishment, if I could here.

The Hindu swastika runs counter-clockwise – facing the left. The
swastika adopted by the Nazis faced to the right.

Here’s a more likely explanation. If you do a (Baidu is the Chinese
equivalent of Google), you’ll find that there was a swastika-related
story recently in the Chinese press that has gotten widespread
coverage over the past week. apparently there was a big mural-type
advertisement on a wall somewhere in xi’an (ancient capital of China,
geographically speaking it’s roughly in the center). the mural
contained a painting of a long black train with a nazi-inspired
swastika painted on the train’s head. judging from the baidu news
results, this story was literally reproduced in hundreds of online
news outlets. my sense of the article is that it’s meant to inspire
shock (as in, how could they not know this looks like a nazi
swastika?!), but also to provide the general lesson that the swastika
has negative connotations outside of buddhism (for those who don’t
know anything about the nazis? also remember: Buddhism comes from
India too). i’d say this story is what inspired all those google
searches, and not the simple fact that “good luck is on their minds.”

This week, Google jumped into the battle against Bell Canada’s anti-
BitTorrent practices, this time through the country’s equivalent of
the FCC, and on different legal grounds than privacy advocates.

Idiot. You really shouldn’t comment on something you obviously don’t
have a clue about….. You seem to have missed this section, or did
you actually bother to read the article? “As previously reported in
BetaNews, in May, the Canadian Internet Policy and Public Internet
Clinic (CIPPIC) asked another agency, the Canadian Privacy Commission,
to investigate whether Canadian privacy law is being broken in Bell’s
use of deep packet inspection (DPI) technology to find and limit the
use of P2P applications.” Its NOT the government, but a corporation
that is limiting rights, like what is happening even more so in
America right now…. Canadians have more rights and freedoms than the
average American does now. We have better privacy laws. Canada is a
democracy. The USA isn’t and never has been. Its a Constitution-based
federal republic with a strong democratic tradition.

Internet giant says large carriers shouldn’t be slowing certain
traffic and is calling for a halt to the practice

“Protecting end user choice is the central issue in this proceeding,
but also a much larger issue. It goes to the heart of the Internet and
how it acts as an extraordinary platform for innovation and fair
competition.”

A spokesman for Bell declined to comment, saying the company would be
filing its response with the CRTC tomorrow.

Bell Canada – a division of Montreal-based BCE Inc. – has faced harsh
criticism from CAIP and other proponents of “net neutrality” over its
policies regarding the flow of content on its network. CAIP is
alleging that Bell is illegally managing their subscribers’ traffic.

Last month, however, the head of the commission said a broad
investigation into the way Canadian ISPs manage the flow of traffic on
their networks is likely.

“Sooner or later – hopefully later – this is going to evolve into a
major consultation … It seems to be inevitable,” Mr. Finckenstein
said.

Google’s 15-page complaint lauds the Internet as an open platform that
should be accessible to anyone and “facilitates unparalleled social,
political, cultural and economic innovation.”

“The commission should make clear in this proceeding that at least
blocking or degrading applications of consumers’ choice is prohibited
in Canada because it is not technologically and competitively
neutral,” Google says in the filing.

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The U.S. Small Business Administration armed Joey Johnson with the
money and motivation to step out and launch her graphic design
business. Johnson formed Graphic Mechanic Design Studio in October
2006, after running the company on the side for nearly a decade.

Because they’re independent companies and Google has no legal
authority to force an outside company to do anything.

Google could then request the records, but the data storage company
could refuse to approve the request, and there would be no way for
Google to force the other company to provide the information.

Personally, I like to be able to find a video which I watched
yesterday to send link to a friend.

Google has just been stupid here about privacy, and now it’s coming
home to roost in a very public way. The problem is that we I.T. people
are Data Hoarders. Even if the data isn’t useful today, or at all
useful into the foreseeable future, we still hang on to it. And we
save every detail we can just to prove how clever we are to have been
able to discover it in the first place. (Note: P2P program writers are
the same, and that’s how Media Sentry can tell you so much about
filesharers they discover on the Internet right down to the full
directory paths of files.) Now if storage wasn’t so d@mn cheap we
wouldn’t have this habit, but Moore’s Law applied to disc drives means
we no longer have to store 2-digit years and have Y2K problems. We
have these problems now instead.
This is why the RIAA is able to use IP addresses combined with
timestamps to identify ISP account holders. It doesn’t identify any
actual copyright infringers, but they don’t care as long as they have
somebody to sue. If these logs were deleted after 3 days this whole
RIAA mess would have been a non-starter.

Chances are that Google themselves has never had to follow-up on an IP
address to identify a user for anyone except the Chinese government
and/or the NSA, neither of which are our friends. The first poster who
asks why they keep this at all, let alone weren’t anonymizing it long
ago has it right. This is hardly the first time Google has had to turn
over access records so they certainly know that it can and will
happen.

I personally cannot comprehend how a judge ruled that privacy issues
resulting from this are “speculative”. You are essentially handing
over information on millions of people on what content they watched,
uploaded, commented on, rated, tagged, etc. to a media company,
without need. This information is also the foundation for YouTube’s
business being handed over to a competitor.

As for Google, their lawyers should have IMMEDIATELY said to the judge
“Our client cannot do that, on privacy grounds. Google’s duty to
protect the privacy of millions cannot be dismissed by a legal
ruling.” Judges are not omnipotent, even when some of them think they
are.

just say they were ‘lost’ and that the backups were destroyed or lost
due to shady backup practices. works for the White House.

I can think of many problems. For example, there are tons of videos on
youtube that are never accessed except by the uploader and a few
friends. Pretty easy to identify who the likely uploader is from the
records, and thus identify a user. Or even if you never upload, a lot
can be learned. For example, somebody looking for my records could
first see what youtube videos have me in them. Most people have
probably searched for their own name, and as such this is a clue as to
which user is probably me.

My cable IP address doesn’t change often, I had one IP address for
almost 10 years without changing… just when I did a router upgrade
it switched.

(However, some people would no doubt trade away their privacy for
coupon discounts or whatever–but right now we have no choice. Lots of
companies (and of course including Google) collect lots of our
personal information and treat it like *THEIR* property when it should
belong to *US*.)

But as an economic downturn looms, deteriorating ad spending will
likely cramp Google’s style — if it hasn’t already. While Wall Street
largely anticipates a dandy second-quarter — the — we suspect the
economy has finally caught up with the search monstrosity.

“We’ve been wondering about [spending reductions] since the first
quarter,” says Jeffrey Lindsay, a Bernstein Research analyst. “I don’t
think the new CFO has really taken up his role just yet, but there’s a
growing body of evidence that Google is cutting back on wasting money.
They’re not quite at the point where they’re saving money, but at the
very least, they’re not wasting as much. And that’s probably a very
positive sign.”

Or maybe it’s positively a sign that the company is finally getting
pinched by an economic slowdown.

This is a “big piece of chicken” question…but what are those
children holding? I think I see legs and fur… but beyond that I
can’t identify the mystery meat. I can only assume, at such a food
event, that the “petting zoo” comes with a very realistic ending?

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Mukesh Ambani, India’s richest man, found himself in a
humiliating situation when customs officers impounded two executive
jets belonging to his Reliance Industries, claiming he had failed to
pay an estimated £12m in tax on them.

Back to those pesky taxes, though. Also believed to be on the
taxman’s hit list are brewing and airline boss Vijay Mallya, the
Tata family and property billionaire KP Singh.

We expect it will be quite empty if the taxman continues to do his job
with such vigour.

I DON’T wish to spoil Michael Grade’s Sunday, but imagine
how different his job would be if ITV owned Google.

A bike activist has collected more than 35,000 signatures on an online
petition asking Google to add a “Bike There” feature to .

Google Maps currently offers a option for a number of cities in the
United States and around the world (but not Boston, for some reason).
Smith envisions that the link to “Bike There” would sit
next to the transit link.

Google Maps already offers a check box for those who wish to avoid
highways, but as Smith points out in his site’s FAQ, the feature
that are unpleasant for cyclists.

Andrew Brown, founder and CEO of New Amsterdam Project, a Cambridge
company that hauls cargo via industrial tricycles.

The web search and advertising giant Google has recently jumped into
the game with a feature called Google Transit. In some areas, if you
do a search for directions on Google maps, you will also get
directions to reach your destination via mass transit.

What do you think Bottleneckers? Google Transit? Are you a believer? A
skeptic? The comment board awaits your wisdom….

Don’t get me wrong, I think Google Transit is great, but for more
detailed itineraries I will use the transit companies trip planner.

Google needs some grown ups who remember when transit systems were not
government funded. They are usually 2-4 generations away from
actualization of producing industrial strength software.

Try communicating with one of them on a personal level they are so
insular it’s incredible. They have receptionists that have graduate
degrees just to swish the public away..

Google also has the ability to infest your computer if they disagree
with you. Their google android project is 2-4 generations from
completion who really needs more from them than a search engine. One
of the grown ups probably thought of guugle ads revenue.

Metro’s bus and rail schedules are “proprietary”? Huh? Last I checked
they are distributed on paper, over the phone, on the web, and created
from start to finish, including the software systems used to maintain
the data, with taxpayer money. That doesn’t seem like something that
can be defined at “proprietary”. Move into the current century Metro,
and hand it over to Google. A transit agency so proud of its poor
product that it is frightened of someone else offering to improve it
for free? Yeah, sure, that’s what we pay them for….one can only
shake their head at yet another brilliantly dumb notion, public
transit information is “proprietary”. Metro gives away real time
traffic data for free – why should Google Transit be any different?
Guess car drivers still outrank bus riders – must be that sales tax
income from the high price of gas clouding their vision.

Yes, it does the job, mostly, but it’s flaky as hell and almost
impossible for a newbie to use. You have to learn all sorts of stupid
tricks, like knowing that for some reason the Universal City subway
stop is called “University City Sta” in the planner. It also does a
shoddy job of telling you how long a commute is gonna take.

BTW, if you are ever dismayed to find that the timetables on OCTA
signs don’t match what you were given on Google maps, don’t worry; the
signs are what’s wrong.

I don’t bother with the map feature at Metro.net; it’s a joke. The
trip planner also suffers from constant crashes, something I don’t
*think* would carry over into Google (in the long term). I think that
Google’s interface promises a lot more user-friendliness, but I’d want
to know its flexibility: to option for Metro-only or bus-only routes,
for example. Click-and-drag for multiple-stop trips? If either Google
or Metro.net can manage that… HOT.

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Steve Hymon is The Times’ Road Sage. He covers traffic and
transportation in a region united by a confounding network of freeways
that frustrate drivers daily. The Bottleneck Blog is Steve’s website
home, where he breaks transportation news, reports on traffic tie-ups
and brings a critical but humorous eye to commuting in Southern
California. You can reach Steve at steve.hymon@latimes.com.

“Now, when you use the Keyword Tool to search for relevant keywords to
include in your keyword list, you’ll be able to see the approximate
number of search queries matching your keywords that were performed on
Google and the search network,” said Trevor Claiborne of Google’s
AdWords group in a Tuesday. (See an image of the tool in action
below.)

The move is probably smart: advertisers love quantitative analysis,
and this gives them more hard data immediately.

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Excerpts from the blog After spending Friday morning playing with an
iPhone 3G, I can see why Apple enthusiasts lined up again for Steve…

(AT&T, the phone’s service provider, loaned me a pre-activated phone
to test. This meant I wasn’t caught in Friday’s activation nightmare
caused by Apple’s server problems.)

Most people won’t be able to tell whether you’re using version 1.0 or
2.0, although the new one feels more svelte with its rounded, plastic
back.

What appears even better is the process to synchronize the phone with
Exchange. However, I couldn’t complete this task because my employer
hasn’t tweaked its servers to accept iPhones yet, so I was unable to
finish the last step.

My tip of the day: Check with your IT department to be sure it has
authorized iPhones. Otherwise, you may get a message saying that it’s
unable to verify a certificate and the sync won’t work.

A few little quirks: Just because the 3G phone uses a faster network,
don’t expect blinding speed over the wireless network.

You also can’t connect to iTunes over the network — you must be
on a Wi-Fi network to connect to the store.

So is the iPhone 3G worth the $2,000 you’ll spend owning and operating
one for the next two years?

As I mentioned in the comments yesterday, I’m getting ready to depart
this space; I’ll have a fuller explanation tomorrow, sometime before
or after I get in line to buy the new iPhone.

Another thing on the book: I’ll be reading and signing at Book Passage
in the San Francisco Ferry Building next week — 6 p.m. on Thursday,
July 17.

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The owner of “Obama’s Chocolate Nuts” is feeling
like “the luckiest person on Earth” in the wake of the
Rev. Jesse Jackson’s crude remarks about Sen. Barack Obama.

Jesse Jackson is no more than a vicious Black thug that fantasizes
about castrating other Black Liberal males.

SIC WILSON … talk to the hand, cause the volleyball ain’t listening.
THE FITS GIRLS … somebody’s gotta be the brains of this operation.
SIC WILLIE … not sweating but protecting the technique.

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A number of readers have noted Google’s , with which it is most
comparable. Google’s blogger claims, “And, yes, it is very fast
— at least an order of magnitude faster than XML.”

Looks like Google just invented the [wikipedia.org] wire protocol,
which is also platform agnostic and an open standard.

I guess the main difference here is that their “compiler” can generate
the actual language-domain classes off of the descriptor files, which
is a definite advantage over “classic” IDL.

“Google protocol Buffers” is cooler than the OMG terminology, but this
kind of thing has been around for 20 years.

“Google’s blogger claims, “And, yes, it is very fast — at least an
order of magnitude faster than XML.” That is just because they aren’t
using enough XML!

The example they give is for a small set of data, and percentages vary
more dramatically as sample sizes decrease.

I agree that the tiny “person” example is not a good benchmark case.
It was intended as a usage example, not a speed example, but I stuck
the speed numbers in there just meaning to give people a vague idea of
the difference. The “20-100 times faster” comment is based on testing
a variety of formats — both unrealistic ones and real-life formats
used in our search pipeline — against programmatically generated XML
equivalents (which may or may not themselves be realistic, though they
contain the same data with the same structure). libxml2 was used for
parsing XML. I don’t really know how libxml2’s speed compares to other
XML parsers, but I didn’t have a lot of time to investigate. The 20x
faster number comes from the largest data set (~100k-ish) while the
100x number comes from a very small message. The most realistic case
was about 50x. Sorry that I cannot provide exact details of the
benchmark setup since many of the test cases were proprietary internal
formats.

Just wait for the XML zealots to come crashing and not believing that
XML is not the fastest, best, solution to all the world’s problems
(including cancer) and of course people at Google are amateurs and
id10ts and WHY DO YOU HATE XML kind of stuff.

The point of this isn’t so much that it’s faster than XML (so is
everything else), it’s that google took everything that a real person
needs in a IDL and cut out everything else. Most IDLs have a serious
case of second system effect, where features are added that nobody
uses but seriously complicate the API. Even XML suffers from that
(have you ever seen the kind of data structure you need to store a
DOM, or what that does to library APIs for manipulating XML)? I’d use
it because 95% of the time all I need is something simple like this,
and the other 5% of the time I should go back and rethink my design
anyway. That said, there is still a case for XML, especially the self
documenting and human readable nature of the document, but there are a
lot of cases where it is used today where it only adds unnecessary
complexity and actually makes your code more difficult to maintain
instead of simpler.

2. Verification in situations when it’s impossible to devise a
meaningful reaction to a failure (other than either “everything
failed, turn off the computers and go home” and “assume the data to be
valid anyway because ALL of it will have the same formatting error
because the same program generates it”)

3. Dealing with data that arrives in neatly packaged “documents” and
“requests”, as opposed to being constantly produced and consumed.

4. Either communicating between programs that have the same knowledge
of message semantics, or preparation of pretty human-readable
documents.

So here is your example of how superior can be ANY format that is not
based on this stupid idea.

… now you have pretty much exactly the same message definition as
protocol buffers, but in pure JSON. It could also use some convention
like “@WORK” for labels/classes so that a normal JSON parser can parse
the message definitions. You can write a code generator to make access
classes for messages just by walking the json and looking at the
types. I don’t see that ‘required’ and ‘optional’ keywords help
much… imo defaults are generally better (even if they are nil). But
this could easily be expressed in a json message definition.

Maybe somebody can explain, but it doesn’t seem like protocol buffers
really have much advantages over JSON. It sounds like it is
effectively just a binary format for JSON-like data (name-value pairs
they say) along with a code generator to access it. The code generator
is nice, but this is like a day’s work max. Maybe I’m not
understanding google’s problems, but I’ll stick with JSON since it
actually is a cross-platform, language neutral data format… and you
can always optimize it if actually needed.

You’ve also missed that they’ve just told the world how the majority
of their systems talk, something most people would find interesting
given how much Google does and the fact that one of Google’s strong
points is mangling huge amounts of data in a relatively quickly
manner.

PS. Your format stinks and is horribly slow and unscalable when it
comes to adding to the library. Genre’s are so unbelievably grey
defined that you might as well just sort them by the dominate color of
the cover. Google would have done better.

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Google has emerged as one of the leading proponents of open source
software development, as a user of open source technologies and as a
developer of open source code. And as a funding source, Google’s open
source commitment is well known.

Leading the open source charge at Google is Chris DiBona, open source
program manager. DiBona was well known in the open source community as
a former editor at the popular Slashdot Web site, as well as the co-
editor of the landmark 1999 book called Open Sources, which discusses
the open source revolution and included essays from Linus Torvalds,
Richard Stallman, Eric Raymond, Bob Young and other notables.

Q: At the beginning of the Summer of Code there was some chatter in
Google’s public boards about participants having trouble with getting
forms in and other such legal issues. Are some of those issues going
to be addressed next year in a different way if you go ahead with
another Summer of Code?

We had 49 different countries represented in the student body that we
had and some of the tax issues were pretty vexing for them. I think
that next year will be a little easier. The fact of the matter is
taxes are complicated. This isn’t a typical scholarship because it’s
based on performances measured by an external body.

What that means is if you put in cancer or a certain kind of cancer
you can find out what genes in the human genome express that disease.
Or you can put in a gene and find out which proteins and genes it’s
connected to.

This sort of thing had been done commercially before but nobody had
ever done it in an open source way. It was one of those projects that
we took and thought, “Well I don’t know if he can possibly succeed in
the time frame to complete the project,” but he did and it is pretty
remarkable.

Q: What was the experience like revising your landmark book Open
Sources some six years after first publication?

It’s been in the works for awhile. We wanted to show how open source
has changed over the last six years and how its ideas have reached
into different realms.

Q: One of the most widely used open source security tools, Nessus,
recently closed its source. There is now apparently a fork under
development. Is that something that Google would help to support?

The OSI-approved slate is really the way to go. We don’t want to cause
any market confusion around creating yet another license. I’ve been
pretty cheered by Sun and Intel pulling back their particular licenses
– and reducing the number of OSI-approved licenses. I think it’s a
pretty good thing.

I haven’t done a deep reading of them. If they’re OSI-approved I would
consider them, but I would have to read them.

We’re really happy with the Apache Software Foundation license and I
don’t think that it gets enough attention.

I love working at Google. It’s been fantastic. Not just the people I
work with but the depth of resources.

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: My Lonely Planet book said that if you want to stay with a family
instead of the hotel you need to register…

: No info on that. As far as I heard from friends in Bukhara,
everything seems to be more or less ok now….

: The 5th microregion in Bukhara has already been evacuated.
What’s going on, that’s 15 km away from…

Earlier, I about the explosions in ammunition storage in Kagan town
that is located in 12 km from Bukhara city. The explosions were the
result of a fire in the ammunition storage, which originally used to
be an ammunition storage for shells and warheads for Soviet military
operations Afghanistan. After the withdrawal of the Soviet troops from
Afghanistan in 1989, the ammunition supplies were left in Uzbekistan.

Officials stated 3 people were killed and 21 injured. However,
eyewitnesses [ru] and the city has returned to its normal life again

I will be checking for updates in the Google Earth and whenever they
come, I will put both old and new pictures of Kagan, so that readers
can see the damage and changes caused by explosions.

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Dan Berlin writes “After announcing that was being discontinued, a lot
of people asked for Google to open source the code so development
could continue. Well, they’ve done just that. The code for browser
sync is now available on “

Might it be part of the reason they’re shutting down and releasing
source?They don’t want a judge to release the data to Corporation X.

I can’t imagine a company that actually does what the public asks?
They must have a secret agenda!

Whereas Browser Sync is in the interest of technology/simplicity, I’d
see the source code of Windows ME being released in the interest of
tragic comedy more than anything…

I use a bunch of machines all over the place (mostly for
development/personal interest). I use old machines, dial-up, new
machines, servers – having browser sync was a god-send. It was great
to be able to reference everything regardless of architecture and O/S.
I agree that there are concerns about what Google would/could reveal
to legislative bodies, but that’s only because they are so huge that
other factors come into play. Maybe this is their way of extricating
themselves (somewhat) from the liabilities associated with having that
much info about a person’s real interests. That said, I feel that I
was never ‘targeted’ as a result of their handling of my data, nor was
there ever any ‘push’ marketing as a result. I think that’s where you
draw the line between good corporate citizen and spammer. I hope that
someone who has the time can re-incorporate it into FireFox 3.x

I’m sure there’s better examples, but off the top of my head I know
that a few years ago, there was a petition started to release the
source code to [wikipedia.org], an old (yet brilliant) 3D RTS game
that still stands out amongst the crowd today. After a few months
(possibly a couple of years), Eidos scrambled together the source code
and released it to the community.Since then, the Warzone resurrection
project has come leaps and bounds – fixing bugs, improving what
platforms the game runs at, allowing higher resolutions, improving the
AI, etc.The only slight catch (that I’m aware of) is that the Video
CODEC used in the original game was proprietary, so Eidos couldn’t
release the source to that and the company that owns the CODEC
wouldn’t allow it to be distributed any more.

He who loses, wins the race, And parallel lines meet in space. — John
Boyd, “Last Starship from Earth”

Since most of us can’t head over there to watch it in person, we’re
giving you the next best thing

The map also serves as a promotion to kick off Street View in the
European version of Google Maps.

Q: I enter events into AOL’s calendar and program it to send me e-mail
to remind me. Unfortunately, a few months ago, I stopped receiving
e-mail reminders, and AOL has not been able to correct this problem.
Do you know of any other software programs that will let me enter
events into a calendar and receive e-mail to remind me?

If the data were stuck on 3.5-inch disks, you could order an external
3.5-inch floppy USB drive for $19.95 from FloppyDisk.com. The store
mentions on its site that it can’t find equivalent drives for
5.25-inch disks.

One caveat: The Web site warns that some data might be unrecoverable,
and that you’re paying for the attempt, not necessarily the results.
ANNE KRISHNAN, (RALEIGH) NEWS & OBSERVER

But while this might (might!) be interesting TV, we get the feeling
it’s going to be more Kabuki than anything else: The only way this
pact is relevant is if Yahoo keeps its existing management, or if it
isn’t eventually sold off/broken up. And while we’d like to see Yahoo
kept alive as a standalone company, and returned to its previous
glory, we’re sadly skeptical that we’re going to see that happen.

Institutional investors are mostly not tuned into the Google ()
Creative Suite. For Google and other SaaS-styled companies, it’s
not about product cycles. New products, particularly strategic ones,
do have a role to play and bear watching closely.

In any case, it’s good to see this particular project out in the open,
and as a Firefox user I’d love to see someone pick up the ball and run
with it.

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By scrutinizing the traffic Google searches produce, Internet analysis
firm Hitwise in January . So what’s next?

“The data suggests Google Autos and Google Music,” Hopkins said. “I am
not sure we’ll see Google Government just yet!”

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Salesforce.com shows details about service responsiveness and
specifics about problems that do emerge. (Click image to see larger
version.)

Google, for example, offers a promising that Gmail, the online e-mail
component of its overall Google Apps service, will be available 99.9
percent of the time, with service credits extended to paying customers
if Gmail dips below that level.

Taking the plunge into the cloud Service level agreements are the kind
of contractual guarantees that appeal to CIOs making cost-benefit
analyses. But there’s a gut-level factor at play here, too.

So naturally there’s some fear with cloud computing: it means you
can’t reboot your laptop or check for blinking red lights on the data
center servers.

Amazon.com, too, offers a . “A service dashboard is something our
developers asked us for, and we made the service available to them as
soon as possible,” said spokeswoman Kay Kinton.

“You can’t get away from owning your own risk. This is slowing the
adoption of the cloud,” she said.

“With the docs outage, we posted immediately in the administrative
console that there was an issue. We posted to the help center and the
phone line system that we were working quickly to resolve it,” Chandra
said.

That might not be five nines, and it’s for Gmail only today, but
Google chooses to see the glass as half full.

With so much fairy dust in the air over Apple’s day-early for a ride
to test out some of these apps. Be forewarned that the firmware has
not yet been Apple-approved for wide release and cannot be vouched
for.

More than 500 applications are already clustered in the App Store,
many of them tiny apps and widgets that have been custom-built to run
natively on the upgraded iPhone firmware. Most of these early entrants
are nearly identical to the iPhone-optimized versions previously
released by publishers to work with the iPhone Classic.

The app does save a fraction of time in bypassing Safari’s initial
loading of the iPhone-optimized page and works without a hitch.

I’ve embedded the original live blog after the break, which is simply
the same post as what’s seen above (sans update).

By scrutinizing the traffic Google searches produce, Internet analysis
firm Hitwise in January . So what’s next?

“The data suggests Google Autos and Google Music,” Hopkins said. “I am
not sure we’ll see Google Government just yet!”

Keep in mind that not all of the Starbucks locations listed are
definitely being shuttered. Most listings are based either on rumors
or speculation, since the first smattering of downed stores has not
yet been announced.

Second, fixing the algorithm rather than a specific result, if done
right, helps more than just one particular search. “Often a broken
query is just a symptom of a potential improvement to be made to our
ranking algorithm. Improving the underlying algorithm not only
improves that one query, it improves an entire class of queries, and
often for all languages,” Singhal said.

The service, Google’s online productivity suite, went from having some
features not working, like the log-out button and the document
creation drop-down menu, to coming up with a 404 page.

“For a short period this morning, our users had difficulty accessing
Google Docs. Some Google Apps users were also affected … We have now
resolved the problem. We know how important Google Docs is to our
users, so we take issues like this very seriously.”

has not been updated with any additional notes, or an explanation of
what exactly went wrong, although Google Docs’ help section has some
small notes first acknowledging the problem, along with a note to say
it was fixed.

Interestingly enough, of the three services offered in Google Docs,
only the word processor and presentation tool were truly down. If you
had a link to a spreadsheet you could apparently view and edit it just
fine.

The technology, , uses cryptography to verify the domain of the sender
of an e-mail. It allows e-mail providers to validate the domain from
which an e-mail originates, and it enables easier detection of
phishing attempts by helping identify abusive domains.

Last October, that it was protecting Yahoo Mail users with eBay and
PayPal accounts from phishing attempts using the same technology.

It looks like it’s available to select users in select locations for
the time being, and indeed, I can’t access it from my Google account
yet. It’s also unclear whether this will get expanded to the mobile
version of Google Maps, where the availability of walking directions
would certainly help.

: Google, which has a 5 percent stake in Time Warner’s AOL, now has
the right to force the media conglomerate to bring its Internet
division to the market.

Renewed hopes for an AOL sale or merger sent Time Warner shares rising
as much as 2.6 percent on Monday after Citigroup named the company its
top pick within large cap media and entertainment stocks on the
conviction that AOL would be sold or merged into either Yahoo or
another company.

AOL and companies like News Corp’s MySpace have been driven to conduct
deal talks since Microsoft revealed its pursuit of Yahoo in February,
a takeover attempt that threatened to redraw the Internet landscape by
creating a more viable rival to Google.

After Yahoo rejected Microsoft’s offer to buy its search business and
struck a search ad deal with Google in June, the momentum for Internet
mergers has slowed, analysts said.

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