Easter Eggs Give Clues to Next-Gen iPhone
Beta testers for iPhone 3.0 are finding oddities on their phones that Apple didn’t tell them about. This article lists several of the “hidden” features that may be on your iPhone this summer.
Web 2.0 Mogul Michael Arrington Creates New Web Tablet
Projected to sell for $200 the Crunchpad has an on/off button, 512 MB of memory, and a 4GB solid state hard drive. Photos show a sleek, keyboard-less, device in candy colors.
Time Warner Cable Earnings Refute Bandwidth Cap Economics
Time Warner Cable has been trying to convince subscribers that flat rate prices are “unfair” to those who use less bandwidth. Though costs for providing service dropped last year, and revenue rose, Time Warner Cable continues to predict possible outages from over-demand.
AT&T calls on Twitter during outage
Your telephone and internet services are down. You can’t call anyone to ask what happened. How does your provider get updates to you? In the Silicon Valley and San Francisco Bay Area, AT&T turned to Twitter.
Cable Sabotage Cripples Internet for Parts of Silicon Valley
Someone deliberately cut fiber optic cables in the San Jose and San Carlos areas Thursday causing phone and internet outages. While AT&T works to repair the cables they’re offering $100,000 reward for information leading to arrest and conviction of the vandal(s).
The Pirate Bay’s Anonymity Service Signs 100,000 Users Pre-Launch
Ipredator is designed to hide IP addresses from authorities, or anyone else. Already over 100,000 people have signed up for the service offered by The Pirate Bay for about $6.
College too expensive? Try YouTube
On-line learning has moved to YouTube. Over 100 schools, including Stanford, MIT, and Yale, have started posting videos of guest lecturers, introductory classes, and full semester courses.
Are you a twit if you don’t want to Twitter?
There are those who like to socialize and share all aspects of their lives. Then there are those who prefer to have some time to themselves.
Activist Charged for Inciting ‘Twitter Revolution’
Social networking tools, such as Twitter, were used to organize a demonstration against the Moldavan government. Now the government has started prosecution of one of the organizers.
Kindle Readers Ignite Protest Over E-Book Prices
If you buy a paperback novel, which may cost $10, you can loan it to a friend, or trade it for another book, or sell it when you get tired of storing it. But. If you pay $10 for a Kindle e-book, you’d have to loan your friend your Kindle for them to read it, and you can’t sell or trade it.
