Back to the Future: How Apple is Becoming More Like a Carrier Every Day (TechCrunch)
Editor's note : Is Apple going too far with its restrictions on developers? Alistair Goodman thinks so and explains why in this guest post. He is the CEO of 1020 Placecast , a location-based mobile advertising startup. Apple’s recent behavior bears an increasing resemblance to carriers with respect to the walled garden they are creating around the iPhone. Restricting applications, restricting ...
Publishing in 2025, Part Three
Jeremy LoCurtoAll articles by this authorCommentsTrackbackTagsPrintTechnoratiDigg this Today on Fifth Estate we post the final instalment of our three-part series on the future of publishing. So far, much of what we’ve heard suggests that by 2025 the world will increasingly look like a disturbing cross breed between a Philip K. Dick novel (minus the mind-bending hallucinogens), and Back to the Future 2 (minus the hoverboards and flying DeLoreans).In parts one and two of the series, our contribu
HAL Reincarnated As New iPod Shuffle/Adobe Patches Acrobat
“2001: An Apple Odyssey” is back to the future as Apple launches one of the first talking gadgets today; its iPod Shuffle. Now if we can only get some really smart technology that will let us tell our gadgets to “Be Quiet.” And Adobe patches ver 9 of Acrobat and Reader.
Back to the Future With Lincoln’s Keyless Entry Pad
We'll forgive you for experiencing deja vu when reading about the SecuriCode keyless entry system on Lincoln's MKS. After all, Ford introduced the exactsame system 28 years ago on the 1980 Thunderbird. Sure, the new keypad looks cool -- but so would vacuum-actuated headlamp covers, and we don't envision those ever coming back. While the MKS is the first Lincoln to feature hands-free access, the keypad keeps it rooted firmly in the era of the Sony Walkman and Members Only jackets. Ford's