From the monthly archives:

April 2011

The unedifying arrogance of PC journalists

April 28, 2011

Barry Collins is angry. Specifically, Barry is almost splenetic about what he sees as “Apple’s unedifying arrogance” in its response to the brouhaha over the database which your iPhone carries of locations. In particular, Barry is vexed over what he sees as Apple’s slipperiness over whether it’s tracking your location, describing its explanation as… “at [...]

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The final proof that Symbian is dead, dead, dead

April 27, 2011

The Inquirer: “FINNISH PHONE MAKER Nokia has announced plans to outsource Symbian development and support to the IT management consulting firm Accenture.” Accenture: Where old software goes to die.

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Sometimes John Gruber just hits the spot perfectly

April 27, 2011

John Gruber arguing against the silliness that is Henry “Fraud, you say?” Blodget’s latest nonsense: “Keep in mind that Apple’s penalty for losing the PC war in the 1990s is that it is now the most profitable PC maker in the world.” Exactly.

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Which Android tablet is actually selling like hot cakes?

April 26, 2011

Asus Eee Pad Transformer Goes on Sale for $399, Sells Out Immediately “This mirrors the Tranformer’s success in the UK where its first three production runs have already sold out. Either Asus didn’t anticipate high demand and lowballed their stock, or the Eee Pad Transformer is the perfect example of what can happen when you [...]

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Apple is dead in the water, redux

April 26, 2011

Charles Arthur, reporting for The Guardian on an IDC/Appcelerator survey of developers: “App developer interest is shifting back toward Apple as fragmentation and “tepid” interest in current Android tablets chips away at Google’s recent gains in momentum, according to a new survey of more than 2,700 developers around the world. In the survey, 91% of developers said [...]

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So what does that location database on your phone really do?

April 21, 2011

Jim Smith, who knows a thing or two about mobile, pokes around in the controversial consolidated.db database on the iPhone and comes up with this: “I’m pretty certain that consolidated.db is used to seed the assisted GPS used for iOS location servers. If you open the map, or check in via FourSquare, it will look [...]

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iPhone isn’t the only thing sending your location to Apple. Your Mac does it too

April 21, 2011

There’s been something of a storm over the “discovery” that your iPhone contains a database file which includes details of where you’ve carried your phone, and that this information is sent back to Apple (with your consent, although as often happens you probably didn’t read the license you gave to Apple, did you?) But your [...]

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Goodbye, JKOnTheRun

April 15, 2011

Warner Crocker on the demise of JKOnTheRun: jkOnTheRun was one of the first mobile tech blogs I followed and JK was one of the guys who I always turned to hear or read his opinion. I still do. Whether it was reading posts on the blog or listening to the podcasts with James and the [...]

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Google’s “proprietary information” (or, what makes Google money stays in Google)

April 13, 2011

From Steven Levy’s marvellous new book on Google: “[Google] was becoming less a research project than an Internet start-up run from a private university. Page and Brin’s reluctance fo write a paper about their work had become notorious in the department. ‘People were saying ‘Why is this so secret? This is an academic project, we [...]

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