April 2010
Facebook opening Sixth St. office - Austin... →
Facebook Inc. plans to open on Monday a downtown office on West Sixth Street in Austin with about six employees and grow it to 200 during the next four years.
The California-based social media giant, which first confirmed its interest in Austin in late February, is establishing an office at 300 W. Sixth St. Company workers will initially occupy 21,000 square feet of the 23-story...
“Motorola sold a total of 8.5 million phones in the quarter, while Apple sold 8.8...”
– Apple Becomes Largest U.S.-Based Mobile Phone Manufacturer - Mac Rumors
Apple Didn’t Kill Flash, HTML5 Did - Mashable.com →
The problem for Flash isn’t that it can’t adapt to contain other types of video; it is that software and hardware, particularly on the mobile side, have moved in a direction that natively supports the playback of H.264 content. Why bother using a container if you can play the file natively and get the memory advantages of not having a container, plus hardware optimization?
Even on devices that...
Table Hopping | Dill in Reykjavik - NYTimes.com →
The word up north these days is no longer Scandinavian, please, it’s Nordic. More precisely, in food trends, it’s New Nordic — a kind of frosty Slow Food locavore movement in which chefs (with toques off to Rene Redzepi of Noma in Copenhagen) are resurrecting and refreshing old food traditions. Butter and rapeseed oil are in, and Tuscan olive oil is out.
In Reykjavik, the New Nordic trendsetter...
Wireless group pushes hunt for spectrum
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The U.S. wireless industry is pressing a key senator to clear the way for a government study that could accelerate plans to free up airwaves for devices such as smart phones.
“Microsoft has finally confirmed that it has been working on a tablet concept...”
– AppleInsider | Microsoft confirms Courier tablet, quashes hopes of shipping it
Thoughts on Flash...An Open Letter From Steve Jobs →
saramdle:
“Flash was created during the PC era – for PCs and mice. Flash is a successful business for Adobe, and we can understand why they want to push it beyond PCs. But the mobile era is about low power devices, touch interfaces and open web standards – all areas where Flash falls short.
The avalanche of media outlets offering their content for Apple’s mobile devices demonstrates that Flash...
iPad Shipping Update
My 3G iPad has shipped. According to Apple, it’s in Nashville and will be delivered to me in Austin by 3pm tomorrow. Shipping method is Federal Express Standard Overnight.
List of the first round of apps I'll load on iPad...
Pages
Keynote
Numbers
Things
NPR
Netflix
iBooks
Kindle
TweetDeck
BBC News
Evernote
NYT Editor’s Choice
Wikipanion
Reuters News Pro
Dragon Dictation
Bento
Citrix Receiver
Digits Calculator
What apps do you think I should get?
Financial Reform Bill Heads to Senate Floor -... →
While the Republicans can still filibuster, they are at a disadvantage during floor debate given the Democrats’ 59 to 41 majority. And the decision to allow floor debate appeared to be a significant retreat by the minority, reflecting a calculation that further delay was politically untenable.
Among the challenges for Republicans was explaining how they could participate in an oversight hearing...
Nike stands by Roethlisberger |... →
It’s going to take more than sexual assault allegations originating from a nightclub’s bathroom and an NFL suspension for Nike to drop Ben Roethlisberger as an endorser. The shoe company confirmed last week that Roethlisberger remains part of their “roster of athletes,” according to the New York Times. Roethlisberger has previously been used to sell the company’s...
HP to Acquire Palm in $1.2 Billion Deal - Mac... →
HP today announced that it will acquire Palm in a deal valued at $1.2 billion. The deal brings Palm, struggling to reinvent itself as a smartphone company after being a major player in the PDA market, into the fold with HP, a traditional computer company that has yet to make a signficant foray into the smartphone market.
HP and Palm, Inc. (NASDAQ: PALM) today announced that they have entered...
AppleInsider | Steve Jobs likely to spill details... →
Kara Swisher has confirmed that Apple’s chief executive Steve Jobs will attend the Wall Street Journals’ eight annual All Things Digital conference to be held June 1-3. His appearance will likely include interesting revelations, considering his past sessions.
Texas gov. shoots, kills 'wily' coyote during jog... →
Pistol-packing Texas Gov. Rick Perry has a message for wily coyotes out there: Don’t mess with my dog.
Perry told The Associated Press on Tuesday he needed just one shot from the laser-sighted pistol he sometimes carries while jogging to take down a coyote that menaced his puppy during a February run near Austin.
Perry said he will carry his .380 Ruger - loaded with hollow-point bullets...
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Radiohead: Subterranean Homesick...
WatchThis Is How Air Space Reboots - Airplanes - Gizmodo
AppleInsider | NYT confirms Apple purchase of... →
Sources also confirmed to the Times that Intrinsity helped to design the custom A4 processor found in the recently released iPad. Weeks ago, one analyst suggested that only Intrinsity could have delivered the A4 processor with its snappy 1GHz clock speed. The Cortex-A8 reference design on which the A4 is based can only be clocked up to 650MHz.
“Prepared for Shipment.”
– Status of my iPad 3G order. - Shane
Current.org | KWBU in Waco shutting down PBS... →
Citing an impending $400,000 budget shortfall, PBS affiliate KWBU in Waco, Texas, is ending its broadcast at the end of May, according to a statement from Joe Riley, station president. The move will not affect its NPR broadcast. Riley told Current that it hasn’t yet talked to nearby PBS affiliates to as to the future of its channel. “The first thing we had to do, was let our staff...
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“I love an empty room. There’s a couple who lives in another building of our loft...”
– m. wachsmann
AppleInsider | App Store submission offers... →
A developer has created an application that allows the iPhone and iPod touch to sync wirelessly with iTunes over Wi-Fi, and plans to submit the software to the App Store later this week.
thesleeplessnights:
Bullet with Butterfly...
Ford Reports Profit of $2.1 Billion in Quarter -... →
The profits are in large part a result of the new products Ford has been bringing to its dealers’ showrooms, including the revamped Taurus sedan whose sales in the United States were 96 percent higher than its predecessor in the first quarter.
Later this year, it is introducing new subcompact and compact models, the Fiesta and Focus, which it hopes will capture a larger share of the fast-growing...
“Come what come may,
Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.”
– William Shakespeare, Macbeth, 1.3 (via fishanelephant) (via dev-o)
Steve Jobs' Advice to Nike: Get Rid of the Crappy... →
Apple CEO Steve Jobs is among the greatest innovators of our time. And yet his genius for understanding business is rarely explained in any public way. Rarer still is to hear the advice he would give to the CEO of another hugely successful company: Nike. But that’s exactly what you’ll learn from this video, in which Nike president and CEO Mark Parker tells about the advice that Jobs...
WatchConversation: PBS President Paula Kerger Making a Push for More Arts Programming | Art Beat | PBS NewsHour | PBS
