White House Petition To Investigate Dodd For Bribery
Walkingshark writes: “Chris Dodd’s recent statements complaining that congressmen who receive donations from the RIAA and MPAA should toe the line has spawned a firestorm of anger on the internet. Among the bits of fallout: a petition on the White Houses “We the People” site to investigate him, the RIAA, and the MPAA for bribery! [...]
Motorola’s Atrix 4G, a great idea
I know this isn’t Apple or Mac related, but it’s such a great idea that I hope Apple takes a look at this idea and looks at a way of doing something like this themselves. Motorolla has announced a smart phone that doubles as a notebook computer when plugged into its dock. The Motorolla Atrix [...]
Xmarks ending service
After quite a run, Xmarks is throwing in the towel. They just were not able to make the service profitable. I used to use the service myself. I started using FoxMarks way back in late 2006. They changed their name to Xmarks at some point later. It seemed to work pretty well. It was only [...]
Apple Sells Three Million iPads in 80 Days
Well, Apple seems to be keeping with it’s trend of selling a million, that 1,000,000, iPads a month. They have hit their 3rd million just 80 days after it’s introduction: Apple Sells Three Million iPads in 80 Days — CUPERTINO, Calif., June 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ Apple® today announced that it sold its three millionth iPad™ yesterday, [...]
Woman sues Google over walking directions
The AP wire has a story about a women in Utah that was using Google Maps to get walking directions, then proceeded to follow them. So far nothing out of the ordinary. So, she started on the route which took her to a four-lane boulevard without sidewalks. Now this is where things get interesting. She [...]
AT&T security breach exposes 114,000 iPad 3G email address
Apparently, AT&T had a virtual break-in and 114,000+ email address of owners of Apple’s new iPad 3G were captured by a group called Goatse Security. Ryan Tate from TalkingPointsMemo.com and Gawker.com seems to think that Apple should be embarrased about this saying: “Apple has suffered another embarrassment. A security breach has exposed iPad owners including [...]
WWDC 10: New iPhone
Surprisingly, this was one of the lightest WWDC’s as far as developer info goes. They talked about iOS 4 (used to be iPhone OS 4) and that was really about it. Steve told us that developers have made ONE BILLION dollars since the release of the App Store. The rest of the show was talking [...]
See your AT&T monthly data usage…
OS X Daily has an article on how to get a report of your monthly data usage. Now, normally, that would be pretty boring, but AT&T recently announced that there are new data plans for iPhones that have different data limits but are much cheaper per month. When you follow their instructions, don’t go looking [...]
Yankee Stadium Bans iPads
In the Odd news column this morning, Mashable.com is reporting that Yankee Stadium is banning iPads!? This doesn’t sound like a similar ban that was in force recently for Israel where iPads were interfering with the countries WiFi standard. Nope, apparently, the folks that run Yankee Stadium figure that the iPad is a notebook computer [...]
Google rumored to have purchased Simplify Media
RazorianFly has an article that is saying that Google has purchased Simplify Media to work with it’s Android phone OS and it’s new phone Froyo. They pulled the info from the Google I/O conference. Looking at the links and text that they quote, I don’t get the impression that an announcement was made that Google [...]
