Posts Tagged ‘iphone’

Jason Fried says in his post The Class I’d Like To Teach: It would be a writing course. Every assignment would be delivered in five versions: A three page version, a one page version, a three paragraph version, a one paragraph version, and a one sentence version. I don’t care about the topic. I care about [...]

Posts of the week

Posted: 9 January 2009 in Technology, Travel
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Pagolac: delicious inexpensive Vietnamese food in downtown San Francisco Mapplr’s favorite ryokans in Japan Macworld: traditional conference trade show format is dead, what’s next? Will VC funds produce the next Madoff? No Exit: venture capital firms struggle to sell startups Make Skype calls from your iPhone and iPod Touch via Truphone

Stats: iPhone has 0.09 percent of Web usage — yes, that’s a lot: In this post Valleywag points out that iPhone users tend to use the Web more than non-iPhone users. Excerpt: Windows CE, which encompasses every Windows Mobile device shipped, holds a 0.06 percent share; Danger Research’s Sidekick product family holds a tiny 0.02 [...]

In the past few weeks, I have attended two conferences, Mobile 2.0 in San Francisco and Nokia’s Mobile Mashup in Palo Alto, on the supposedly new world of mobile Internet, a paradise where everyone can use these incredible applications on their mobile phones AND access the Internet in all its glory. Unfortunately we’re stuck with [...]

Orange, Apple’s exclusive partner in France, is required to sell the iPhone unlocked, if requested by a customer. The reason: French law prohibits the tying of a device to a cellular service. Operators can sell phones for a lower price if they subsidize it, but if the customer just wants the phone, they have to [...]