Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow [...]
Filed under: Zeitgeist | Tagged: Apple, Steve Jobs | Comments Off
As I predicted in June, Amazon has quietly launched read.amazon.com, a full-featured HTML 5 version of the Kindle that runs perfectly on the iPad, looks for all the world like a native application after it’s been added to the iPad home screen as an icon and can even store books to read offline. Goodbye, Apple [...]
Filed under: ComputerWorldUK | Tagged: Amazon, Apple | 2 Comments »
I got an e-mail from the Financial Times yesterday, announcing their new “FT App”. That sounded unusual; after all, the FT has had an iPad/iPhone app for some time. I took a look, and found the whole world of mobile publishing waiting for me in microcosm. It’s not open source, but I see the same [...]
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Skype bug gives attackers access to Mac OS X machines Serious, exploitable bug in the Mac version of Skype. Best not to run Skype until they have it fixed. Actually, best not to run it after that anyway, but that’s another matter! Why I think we won the battle against software patents Some good points [...]
Filed under: Links | Tagged: Apple | 1 Comment »
While the decision by the US Library of Congress to create exceptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act for jailbreaking iPhones is very welcome, the reaction has been just a touch too euphoric. There are two big reasons I’m only vaguely impressed. One concerns market power and its potential abuse, the other concerns global trade.
Filed under: ACTA, DRM | Tagged: Apple, ComputerWorldUK, DMCA, iPhone, Jailbreaking | 1 Comment »
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