A high-level employee at RIM apparently wrote an open letter to RIM’s management team where he argues for significant changes. I suggest you read the entire thing, as it’s incredibly astute and insightful, but here’s one excerpt that’s particularly good: There is a serious need
Apture just released Hotspots (http://blog.apture.com/2011/06/announcing-apture-hotspots-your-curiosity-is-the-webs-missing-link/) to connect the web’s information together. Basically, what it does is make talked about topics clickable on web pages, so you can pull up more information about it without
President Obama will announce today the withdrawal of 30,000 troops (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jun/21/barack-obama-and-pentagon-split-on-afghanistan) from Afghanistan, nearly one-third of our current military deployment. This will effectively end the “surge” Obama ordered in 2009. The military is
Georgia passed a tough anti-illegal immigration law that, among other things, makes using fake identification to get a job punishable by up to 15-years in prison, and here are the results: Thanks to the resulting labor shortage, Georgia farmers have been forced to leave millions of dollars’ worth
MG Siegler says (http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/15/facebook-project-spartan/) that Facebook is working on an HTML5-based mobile platform, and are targeting Apple: Imagine loading up the mobile web version of Facebook and finding a drop-down for a new type of app. Clicking on one of
I hesitated when I wrote the title, because comparing a new product announcement to 2007′s iPhone introduction runs a big risk of being hyperbolic. I think, though, that iCloud will end up being as important a product for the evolution of computers as the original iPhone. In April, I
Microsoft previewed Windows 8 today, and it raises a fascinating question: what’s the future of computing? Apple is making their vision for the future quite clear with iOS, the iPad and Mac OS X Lion. Microsoft, for their part, seems to think the future will mostly resemble the present.
My article for the Read & Trust newsletter went out today, and I’m pretty happy with how it turned out. You can subscribe here if you haven’t already. Here’s a small excerpt from my article: What we typically see as “creative” is nothing more than someone who
Lukas Mathis has a great look at Windows Phone 7. Microsoft did a great job with WP7, but it sounds like it’s being held back by its licensing model. Hardware partners are holding back WP7 devices with poorly-designed hardware and a difficult OS upgrade path.
I began writing TightWind in April 2008. I started it because after writing at Newsvine for a while, and reading Daring Fireball and Shawn Blanc, I wanted my own space to write—somewhere I could control every piece of the site. I wanted to write articles exploring things I thought
The ascent of Netflix signals a broader shift in the way we consume television. For example, “news” programs aren’t really news in that they aren’t fresh, they’re already reheated when we watch them at 6 or 11. Many TV programs, from John Stewarts’s Daily Show to
Cliff Edwards, commenting on Apple’s plans to open retail stores in 2001: Indeed, rather than taking on the retailers who ought to be its partners, Apple would do better improving how it works with them. A good step would be to end the “think secret” approach that shrouds every