monday of this week had quite the busy (and highly anticipated) morning. no, it wasn’t work. instead it was steve job’s keynote address at the world wide developers conference (wwdc) in san francisco. everyone basically wanted to hear news and see photos of the new 3g iphone that was expected to be announced. the address [...]
By {ns} | February 23, 2008
can we, for once, implement something… have something exist… that is not sought after for bringing the highest profit to our pockets in this country. i understand the whole business model yadda yadda, but why do we all feel that happiness and success is defined by the amount of money we make in the end? [...]
By {ns} | October 1, 2007
it seems that the recent iphone firmware update that apple released has caused iphones that have been hacked to work on other networks to freeze up or cause third-party applications to stop working altogether. of course this has caused an outrage by the hackers and users of such applications, so much so that some may [...]
By {ns} | September 7, 2007
on wednesdsay apple finally announced the launch of their new line of ipods, including the attractive touch ipod which is basically an iphone without the phone. sweet! although the touch ipod doesn’t have all the apps that the iphone has, the OS and binaries installed on the touch ipod are apparently the exact same as [...]
as i’m sure we’re all well aware of, the apple iphone was launched last weekend and had a very successful first weekend. in fact, according to a nytimes article yesterday apple and at&t stores sold well over half a million (525,000) iphones through sunday with half of the apple stores on the west coast selling [...]
recent advancements in multi-touch computing has led the way to developing better interfaces for human-to-computer interaction, in which the interface essentially disappears. today, microsoft announced their surface product that will be released to commercial clients at the end of this year. of course the technology is awesome and begins to open the door to many [...]
in a business week article today (found on newsvine of course), it appears that microsoft now wants to ‘kill’ open source in the software industry. microsoft believes that many of its patents are violated by open source software and are targeting compensation for such infringments from linux and companies that use linux, such as novell, [...]
much of my independent research over the last year and a half has been consumed by the relationship between architecture, our physical environments, and digital technologies, our primary source for information, communication and knowledge. the primary goal of such research is to decipher how the fast-paced rise in digital technologies will, or rather should, begin [...]
UPDATE (2:22pm seattle-time): amazon.com just pulled their prices and pages that i had linked below… guess it spread across the net faster than they expected! hah! as u were…
most of the details have already bee revealed about adobe’s huge upgrade of its cs3 line of content creation software, except for the pricing. a day before [...]
