Ewan MacLeod SXSW – where everybody knows your Twitter name March 17 at 5:50 pm – Comment – Like Convenient, unless you decided to call yourself MrSexyUnderpants or something similar.. – Ewan MacLeod
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Ewan MacLeod SXSW – where everybody knows your Twitter name March 17 at 5:50 pm – Comment – Like Convenient, unless you decided to call yourself MrSexyUnderpants or something similar.. – Ewan MacLeod
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Ewan MacLeod “TFL destroys hopes of a mobile phone/Underground relationship http://tinyurl.com/cvr5t2.†March 17 at 5:21 pm – Comment – Like I get this; I really do — you don't want people arsing about on their handset texting and falling off the platform… that said, I'd still like to have signal myself..
Flippin’ ‘eck! I knew they were popular but this is getting silly. In fact, analysts are suggesting that Apple could have got its figures wrong and been slightly conservative in its belief in the iPhone. It is, estimated, to have shifted 3 million new iPhones in just over four weeks.
That’s a lot. In fact, that’s obscene.
Michael Cote of the Cote Collaborative has told CNN that Apple had seen “unprecedented demand†for the iconic doo-hickey.
Wall Street had previously expected a similar number for the first three months of availability.
Cote’s prediction is still way above many other’s but, with 1 million iPhone 3G handsets sold in its first weekend, he might be right.
Chuck in the extra countries and we might have stupid and un-imaginable figures on our hand – akin to those normally only seen in geological timescales.
Well done boys.
“In 1972, a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn’t commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum-security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire… the ?A-Team.”
It seems that Jobs and Wozniak have found the four men, including him from Breakfast At Tiffanies. The Dutch website that claimed to offer sim-free unlocked iPhone 3Gs has suddenly disappeared without sending out any handsets.
The owners of the service are possibly dead in a ditch somewhere.
Alternatively, Robert van Zanten, who started iphonehelpdesk.nl just before the new version of the iPhone was released, may have merely scarpered. I’ll let you decide between logic and conspiracy theories.
The website promised sim-free handsets, avoiding a 24 month tie in to a T-Mobile contract.
But, the phone lines have been shut down and the website is no longer on the… er… web. According to Tech Radar, consumers are €700,000 (£500,000) out of pocket.
The few iPhones that did get sent out were the old type with AT&T sim cards from the US – helpful.
Whilst I prefer the idea of Jobs and Woz as mercenary killers, trying desperately to keep the iPhone to one operator by all means necessary, the concept is looking doubtful.
The main theory currently doing the rounds is that van Zanten failed to get his grubby little hands on Italy handsets, but panicked when he found this impossible.
I’m a little frustrated by some of the technology coming out of the Olympics.
I’ve loved watching Phelps’ gold rush, Cooke’s cycling gold was equally amazing to witness and, being a rowing nut, I’ve not moved from the TV whilst these events are on. But, some of the interactive services suck royally.
Aside from screaming at the internet and TV when a mistake meant the lightweight women’s double race, scheduled to be shown, was replaced on both with sailing – made all the worse by a friend competing in it – I’ve been most disappointed by the Beeb’s text service to alert you to the top events.
So far I’ve had the sum total of zero texts to alert me that Cooke could be on for a gold in the road race cycling. Zero texts to alert me that men’s 4-, the flagship boat, is about to race. And zero texts to suggest that a swimming gold was being contested.
I’ve registered twice and am getting particularly fed up. How hard could it be to get this service sorted.
I’m also slightly annoyed that AOL has ajusted the medal table to put the US above China (it’s counting medals, not gold medals as all other charts do). i’m now actually routing for China over the US in everything except the three remaining events in which Phelps is swimming. But that’s beside the point.
It’s always the way. You charge the space fortress, breach its defenses, set a bomb in the heart of the enemy base and then flee only to discover that your spaceships and weapons have been created by your enemy and he has the stop button to both.
Returning from the world of sci fi. You charge the corporate building, breach its sole security guard, set a virus using your iPhone and then flee only to discover you’ve raided Apple’s corporate HQ and he has a button to stop your virus.
And he does too.
According to Electric Pig:
If you’re poking away at your iPhone and your app suddenly stops running don’t complain to Apple, chances are it was Steve Jobs’ own doing after he confirmed Apple has the power to turn off iPhone apps at the touch of a button.
The kill switch is apparently for our benefit and is there to protect us from malicious programmes. Speaking to the WSJ, Jobs said: “we would be irresponsible not to have a lever like that to pull.â€
It’s probably good that Apple have thought this through but it does give you a sense of the willies that one man can wield so much power – could he simply turn off all MS apps?
Ok, so most leaks are truly naff, unveiled attempts at marketing. I doubt this one is though. A video has appeared on YouTube of the Android phone.
Now, Google has always gone for secrecy so I’m assuming Larry Page and Sergey Brin are probably quite miffed right now.
It’s hardly the clearest video and doesn’t give much information away, but it does at least give a glimpse of the current Android SDK.
