Good Morning Silicon Valley is spot on . It’s not about phones, it’s about philosophies.
It comes down to closed vs. open. In political terms, the Apple environment is like Singapore, where some freedoms may be ceded in favor of providing a pleasant and orderly experience, and Google, with its Android platform, is like a loud and messy New England town meeting. Apple has one iPhone, a tightly controlled App Store for third-party programs, and a touchscreen design that favors consumption of iTunes entertainment. The G1 is but the first of many Android-based devices to come, all of which will be served by the wide-open Android Market, and its design, featuring a real keyboard, leans toward typing-oriented functions like mail, messaging and mobile search, not coincidentally all Google strong suits. If you’re already happy in the Apple ecosystem, or with an “it just works (most of the time)” approach to tech in general, and you’re in the smart-phone m...
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Opera Mini ya se puede descargar en el Android Market, y las impresiones que nos llegan desde las islas británicas son bastante buenas. Las comparaciones con el navegador integrado de Google (Chrome mini) son odiosas en términos de velocidad, tanto en 3G como en GPRS/Edge: mientras con Opera Mini es raro esperar más de 5 segundos para ver la página completa, en el navegador nativo integrado tarda diez veces más, aproximadamente lo mismo que el navegador del iPhone, Safari Mobile.
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Opera Mini ya se puede descargar en el Android Market, y las impresiones que nos llegan desde las islas británicas son bastante buenas. Las comparaciones con el navegador integrado de Google ( Chrome mini ) son odiosas en términos de velocidad, tanto en 3G como en GPRS/Edge: mientras con Opera Mini es raro esperar más de 5 segundos para ver la página completa, en el navegador nativo integrado tarda diez veces más, aproximadamente lo mismo que el navegador del iPhone, Safari Mobil... more
Welcome to the second edition of our Android software snapshot reviews. As we did before with the games, we’re providing quick, one paragraph reviews of Android applications we find from the Android Market. Each of these reviews is dedicated to specific categories and the apps that are found to be associated with them. This week, we’re bringing you the applications listed under “Lifestyle”. Daily Horoscope Developer: Max Binshtok Available: Now, Android Market Cost: FREE The jist: Ther... more
My colleagye Robert McCrum is standing down after ten years as the Observer’s Literary Editor. He’s written a thoughtful valedictory piece .
When I joined The Observer in 1996, the world of books was in limbo between hot metal and cool word processing, but it would have been recognisable to many of our past contributors, from George Orwell and Cyril Connolly, to Anthony Burgess and Clive James. Everything smelled of the lamp. It was a world of ink and paper; of cigarettes, coff... more
Interesting blog post by Darren waters.
It seems to me that there are fewer and fewer water cooler moments, in part because television has become less of a cohesively social experience.
PVRS, video on demand, BitTorrent, digital download stores, DVD box sets have all helped to fracture the common viewing experience.
We tend to watch our TV content out of sync with one another these days.
But last night I experienced a water cooler moment as a programme was being broadcast. It was ... more
The cost of madness From: memex.naughtons.org Post Date: 2008-05-25 08:08:23
I’ve never voted Tory in my life, but the awful prospect is beginning to look like a possibility. A key determinant of how I vote next time will be the parties’ stance on the national ID card scheme to which Gordon Brown & Co are fanatically committed. On Friday Bill Crothers, commercial director for the Identity and Passport Service, announced that five companies had won the right to bid for the billions of pounds worth of work involved under a framework agreement announced o... more
Network Power From: memex.naughtons.org Post Date: 2008-05-25 07:50:35
Sigh. Another book to add to the ‘must read’ pile — David Singh Grewal’s Network Power: The Social Dynamics of Globalization. Here’s the abstract:
David Singh Grewal’s remarkable and ambitious book draws on several centuries of political and social thought to show how globalization is best understood in terms of a power inherent in social relations, which he calls network power. Using this framework, he demonstrates how our standards of social coordinat... more
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