Nokia showed off their first Windows phone, the Lumia 800 (http://thisismynext.com/2011/10/26/nokia-lumia-800-hands-on/), and it’s really nice. I hope it is as good as it looks and they sell a ton of them. * Member of the Read & Trust network. (http:
Michael Lopp (http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2011/10/24/the_end.html): A good ending, whether it’s a meeting, a presentation, or an article: * Introduces itself, invites the audiences to the stage, and acknowledges receipt. * Reminds everyone what was actually important. * Says one more thing. * Member of the
Tony Fadell, who was in charge of the iPod division at Apple and left the company in 2008, just announced his new company: Nest. And their product is a thermostat. Yeah, a thermostat. Here’s his idea: thermostats control about 50% of our monthly energy bill, but they suck. They’
Shawn Blanc explains how to add reminders to a shared list using Siri (http://shawnblanc.net/2011/10/siri-and-shared-reminder-lists/) so you can, for example, share a reminders list with your spouse and remind them to pick up dark chocolate covered almonds while at Trader Joes (because,
The Early Edition 2 (http://www.glasshouseapps.com/the-early-edition/). Looks beautiful. * Member of the Read & Trust network. (http://www.readandtrust.com/) GA_googleFillSlot("TightWind"); Powered by the Syndicate (http://syndicateads.net/)
The big test for whether Siri will become a lasting interface is not whether geeks use it and like it, but whether regular people will. If Tory Briggs’s wife is any indication (http://torybriggs.com/2011/10/19/technology-observations-watching-my-wife-use-an-iphone-4s/), it’s
Financial transaction taxes are no panacea. Kenneth Rogoff: Such taxes surely reduce liquidity in financial markets. With fewer trades, the information content of prices is arguably reduced. But both theoretical and simulation results suggest no obvious decline in volatility. And, while raising so much revenue with so low a tax
No, public control and unions don’t reduce innovation: The University of California last week tentatively agreed to a deal with UC-AFT that included a new provision barring the system and its campuses from creating online courses or programs that would result in “a change to a term
Rather than review iOS 5, I want to write a little about why I think Siri is important and what it means for the future of computing and the web. If you’d like to read a great iOS 5 review, Shawn Blanc will have you covered, I bet. Every
Starting October 31st, I am joining the Syndicate. The Syndicate is a new RSS feed sponsorship network for technology, design, development and business writers. The network consists of nine sites, including Shawn Blanc, Marco Arment, Khoi Vinh, and Horace Dediu, and I am incredibly honored to be included. My good
One million iPhone 4Ss were pre-ordered within 24 hours. 600,000 iPhone 4s were pre-ordered on the first day last year. It sure sounds like people are disappointed with the new iPhone.
I guess Netflix wasn’t so confident in their decision to split off the DVD business: It is clear that for many of our members two websites would make things more difficult, so we are going to keep Netflix as one place to go for streaming and DVDs. This means