PlayStation Phone: more spy photos turn up
Blurry and dirty of course, but do shed light on more details
More pictures of the PlayStation Phone?have turned up, showing it’s codename and that it’s going to be on the rather large side.
If the images are real, and there is no reason to doubt that the aren’t, those opting for the phone when it launches [...]
TweetDeck could be forced to change name
New guidelines could mean problems ahead for certain apps
TweetDeck the popular Twitter app could be forced to change its name following new guidelines over the use of the word Twitter and Tweet by the micro-blogging site that we’ve all come to know and love.
In a post titled “New Twitter, new look” Twitter outlines details of [...]
VaultPress
My thanks to Automattic for sponsoring this week’s DF RSS feed to promote VaultPress, their new backup service for WordPress sites. Here’s how they describe it:
VaultPress provides realtime, continuous backup and synchronization of every single WordPress post, comment, media file, revision, plugin, theme, and dashboard setting. Your site is backed up across two separate cloud services, [...]
Microsoft Changes Strategy With Silverlight
Mary Jo Foley:
But when it comes to touting Silverlight as Microsoft’s vehicle
for delivering a cross-platform runtime, “our strategy has
shifted,” Muglia told me.
Silverlight will continue to be a cross-platform solution, working
on a variety of operating system/browser platforms, going forward,
he said. “But HTML is the only true cross platform solution for
everything, including (Apple’s) iOS platform,” Muglia said.
It’s [...]
Edwin Watkeys on Adobe
Edwin Watkeys:
I want to say that Adobe doesn’t
really care about you, dear
Photoshop or Illustrator or InDesign
user, but that’s not really true.
They do care about you. But I
think they see meeting your needs as
instrumental to doing what they
really want to do, which is wedge
themselves into every nook and
cranny of a large organization.
You’re their beachhead. You’re their
entrée [...]
Marco Arment: ‘The Mac App Store Isn’t for Today’s Mac Developers’
If you only read one thing today, make it this. So good. I’m glad I didn’t start coagulating my Mac App Store notes into a essay, because it would’ve turned out pretty much exactly like this.
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iPhone Share of All Phones Sold Is Now Above 4% and Continuing to Rise
Horace Dediu cooks up some claim chowder for Tomi Ahonen, who back in April wrote:
I know now that the numbers are clearly stacking up so, that the
annual sales level of iPhone units, will result in a decline in
iPhone annual market share in 2010.
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Fortune Profile of Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg
Includes some scuttlebutt regarding Apple’s years-ago decision to launch the iPhone on AT&T instead of Verizon, and additional confirmation that the iPhone is coming to Verizon “in early 2011”. This stuck out:
McAdam points out that Verizon already carries a data hog of a
phone, the Motorola Droid (which runs on Google’s Android
operating system), and that the [...]
PayPal Site Outage
One of those sites that makes me feel unsettled when it goes down.
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Faruk Ateş on the Allure of Instagram
Nice example photos, too.
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