Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: ‘I Should Have Known It’
Best new Petty song in a couple of albums.
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Sprint Bails on the Google Nexus One
Weird, given that this press release came out just seven weeks ago.
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Putting the ‘Multi’ in Multitouch
Matt Gemmell:
A friend of mine recently asked how many simultaneous touch events
the ipad supported; I wasn’t sure, so I promised to write some
code to conduct an experiment and find the answer.
Update: Another WordPress site goes down. <a href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=cache:http://mattgemmell.com/2010/05/09/ipad-multi-touch&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8″>Google’s cached version is working, albeit slowly, and here’s a direct link to the [...]
NPD Group Says Android Phones Outselling iPhone in U.S.
I think it’s all about Verizon — Android’s U.S. market share increase coincides exactly with the Motorola Droid’s debut. (And don’t forget that Verizon has a buy-one-get-one-free deal for all smartphones.)
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Scott Horton on Legislative Changes to Miranda
Scott Horton:
Other ways of approaching the same issues are suggested by the
British model. Following years of police station abuse during the
“troubles” in Northern Ireland — abuse that led to coerced
confessions in dozens of cases, many of which were later
overturned following embarrassing disclosures — Britain’s
Conservative government [...]
Lulu Now Offers Publishing to iBookstore
Self-publishing to Apple’s iBookstore via Lulu:
All eBooks planned for iBookstore distribution must have retail
pricing that complies with Apple’s guidelines. We will
automatically price Lulu eBooks submitted to the iBookstore to
meet these guidelines. The creator revenue that you receive per
sale will be 80 percent of the profit after deducting [...]
NYT: ‘Attorney General Eric Holder Backs Miranda Limit for Terror Suspects’
Disregard for the Bill of Rights is not limited to Republicans:
Mr. Holder proposed carving out a broad new exception to the
Miranda rights established in a landmark 1966 Supreme Court
ruling. It generally forbids prosecutors from using as evidence
statements made before suspects have been warned that they have a
right [...]
Al Gore: ‘The Crisis Comes Ashore’
Al Gore on the gulf oil spill and the state of U.S. energy independence:
Starting 40 years ago, when America’s domestic oil production peaked, our dependence on foreign oil has steadily grown. We are now draining our economy of several hundred billion dollars a year in order to purchase foreign oil in a global market dominated [...]
The Omni Group Sells 5,000 Copies of OmniGraffle for iPad
At $50 a pop, you can see why it has a spot in the App Store’s top-grossing list. Well-deserved, too — it’s a very clever app.
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Jean Louis Gassée on HP and the Incumbent’s Curse
Or, as Bob Dylan put it, “He not busy being born is busy dying.”
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