The LA Times on the Disneyland Maintenance Crew
Walt Disney:
“When I started on Disneyland, my wife used to say, ‘But why do
you want to build an amusement park? They’re so dirty.’ I told her
that was just the point; mine wouldn’t be.”
The pursuit of perfection. (Thanks to DF reader Austin Brown.)
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NEWS: Intel: Phones with 10 day battery life here by end of year
Moorestown becomes Atom Z-Series promises to last a long time
Intel is promising phone makers that use its new Moorestown processor, now dubbed the Intel Atom Z-Series, that they will be able to offer handsets that can last up to 10 days without charge.
The chip maker has detailed more information on its Moorestown processor designed for [...]
NEWS: VIDEO: Intel Atom Z-Series lets you play Quake 3 at 100fps on your mobile
Gaming on the go
Intel has shown off its new Moorestown, soon to be called Intel Atom Z-Series, mobile phone processor by showing it running Quake 3 at a 100 fps.
Although the Intel spokesperson told us that the game at that speed would be unplayable it shows what is capable of the new chip that can [...]
NEWS: EXCLUSIVE: Intel promises MeeGo device before Christmas…
Is a new Nokia flagship phone inbound?
Possibly good news for fans of Nokia wondering when their next flagship model will hit. Intel has confirmed to Pocket-lint that there will be a MeeGo powered Moorestown mobile phone on sale in the UK by the end of 2010.
“You will see MeeGo Moorestown devices by the end of [...]
Bloomberg: Adobe Complained to Feds
Bloomberg:
U.S. antitrust enforcers are considering an investigation of Apple
Inc. following a complaint from Adobe Systems Inc., according to
people familiar with the matter.
Adobe says Apple is stifling competition by barring developers
from using Adobe’s products to create applications for iPhones
and ipads, said the people who spoke on condition of [...]
‘H.264, Patent Licensing, and You’
Great piece by Nilay Patel at Engadget on the licensing and patent issues surrounding H.264.
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Google Voice Web App for iPhone and Palm WebOS
Cross-platform mobile development, no App Store in sight.
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Top 10 Luxury Brands’ Sites Fail to Work on iPad
PSFK:
Out of the top 10 luxury brands ranked by Forbes in 2009, none of
their websites worked sufficiently to match their
desktop-web-experience. […] The key issue is that all the key
luxury brands have designed their sites to use Adobe’s Flash.
(<a href="http://kottke.org/10/05/luxury-brands-sites-dont-work-on-the-ipad“>Via Kottke, who points out that this reflects poorly on these [...]
‘Interesting Work for Interesting People’
Max Chafkin profiles Tim O’Reilly for Inc.:
“This is a lifestyle business that got out of control,”
O’Reilly said when we first met. O’Reilly is 55 and has a
craggy, weatherworn face, and he speaks with the warm
self-confidence of someone who knows a lot more than you do but
is happy [...]
Pedal to the Chrome Metal
New faster beta release of Google Chrome for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Don’t miss the speed test video.
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