The BlackBerry Application Center is RIM’s answer to the iPhone App Store (6)
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You're looking at the BlackBerry Application Center, RIM's answer to Apple's App Store and Google's Android Market. Same basic concept as the other two—you browse and buy applications that enhance your BlackBerry experience. The Application Center—we're running out of variants of the term “application store!”—is set to debut with the BlackBerry Storm software version 4.7. All application data will be stored at the carriers' locale; RIM is totally out of the loop as far as ...
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Chuck LeDuc said:
"All application data will be stored at the carriers' locale; RIM is totally out of the loop as far as that goes. It's supposed to differentiate the Application Center from the App Store in that regard—carriers can put the applications they want on their own little store." So you have to bribe each carrier individually. And this solves what, exactly?
The bumpy ride hits toytown (3)
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Okay, hang onto your hats. We're clearly in for a bumpy ride over the next couple of years; even discounting the worst-case scenarios (I'm a happy pessimist: I always need something to worry about) it looks like we're in for a recession that will be at least as bad as the 1990-92 one, and possibly much worse. Now is the time to go long on Baked Beans and short Hummers; I'd love to see an ...
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The conventional wisdom has it that if there's one thing the internet does to the wider economy, it can be summed up in one word: disintermediation.
(The) Startup Depression (35)
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Jason Calacanis’ latest post to his email mailing list takes a look at the dark times many involved in the startup world have to struggle through at one point or another. Startup news is often dominated by success stories - multimillion dollar acquisitions and overnight successes are more glamorous than the countless entrepreneurs trudging in the trenches as they try to build userbases and raise funding. Calacanis’s post offers some valuable insight into the realities ...
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rexy said:
Wow, this is such a rich knowledge base for any entrepreneur in any part of the world. i would urge you to read it if you run your own company.
Tanzanians killed in disco stampede (1)
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Police say 19 youths who died were aged between 12 and 17 years.
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This is my favourite news headline of the day. So much for the Locomotion, let's do the Disco Stampede!
Ruby on Rails: Danger! Cross Site Request Forgery (2)
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The attack works by including a link or script in a page that accesses a site to which the user is known to have authenticated. Then a task is performed as the logged in user. Huh? I could create an image tag <img src="http://target_site/account/transfer?1milliondollars&from.you.to.me> or I could put it in a hidden iframe (*holds pinkie up to corner of mouth) Because you have a valid cookie for the target site this will work. By using ...
To bail or not to bail? (1)
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Let's set aside the demands of the extremists on the right, calling for more deregulation and tax cuts to address the financial crisis. It's like trying to discuss the finer points of Plato with a small, yapping dog. Otherwise, I can understand the desire on the left and right to "punish Wall Street" by defeating the bailout plan. Unfortunately, the markets are so intertwined and inherently fragile, the first casualties are going to be on ...
Flash Seems To Be Coming To The iPhone. But Is That A Good Thing? (23)
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When the iPhone was first released, there was an abundance of speculation over whether the phone’s lack of Flash support would cripple its browser and give us something less than “the real web” that Apple had promised. At the time, Steve Jobs explained that the full version of Flash wouldn’t run well on the iPhone (the iPhone runs on an ARM11 chip, which doesn’t play nice with Flash), but that Adobe’s Mobile Flash was lacking ...
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Chuck LeDuc said:
I agree that Flash on the iPhone would be just as much of a pain as anything. I love flashblocker on Firefox because it lets me turn of flash virtually everywhere.
Free Phone Calls At IconDial. If Only The Business Model Would Work (9)
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A new service popped up today called IconDial. It’s about as simple and straightforward as possible. Go to the site, which has a phone-style dial pad, and dial any phone number in the world. After a 3-5 second advertisement, your call will be put through. There is no restriction on who you can call - all countries are supported, and you can call both land lines and mobile phones. For now the service is limited ...
Straws in the Wind (5)
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Straws in the wind: the US army's 1st Brigade Combat Team of the 3rd Infantry Division will for 12 months be assigned to US Army North in the continental United States — "The 3rd Infantry Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team has spent 35 of the last 60 months in Iraq patrolling in full battle rattle, helping restore essential services and escorting supply convoys. Now they’re training for the same mission — with a twist — ...
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tlockney said:
Scary, scary thoughts... I can only hope it's just strong cynicism that makes me see some trace of reality in this.
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Chuck LeDuc said:
Perfect paranoia is perfect awareness — W.S. Burroughs
Untitled (49)
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We’ve been bullish about location-based social networks for quite awhile now, especially since Apple announced that it would open up the iPhone to developers. And with two significant developments in this space just this week (more on that below), we thought it would be a good time to take a step back and look at the options currently available through the Apple App Store. What makes a “location-based” social network different than a normal one? ...
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Haltse said:
as long as you have to proactively manage these it's a real time pain
Living through Interesting Times (17)
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We are living in interesting times; in fact, they're so interesting that it is not currently possible to write near-future SF. I don't believe this is an over-generalization. It takes time — weeks at a minimum, more usually months — for even a short story to work its way from your desktop to a magazine or a website. Novels are far worse, for book publishers run a production cycle that expects a novel to take ...
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tlockney said:
Interesting times indeed...
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Dayvan Cowboy said:
Este é o blog do autor do fantástico romance "Accelerando", disponível em www.accelerando.org ; aqui, ele diz que está praticamente impossível escrever sci-fi nos dias de hoje
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Don said:
excellent post
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Chuck LeDuc said:
Would it have a monumental fiscal collapse, on the same scale as 1929? Would it have Taikonauts space-walking overhead while the chairman of the Federal Reserve is on his knees? Would it have more mobile phones than people, a revenant remilitarized Russia, and global warming?
ELECTION 2008: Global warming isn’t trying to kill us, and that’s a shame (1)
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Clever graffitti really should inform more of the debate in our federal election. There I was, tearing my hair out trying to understand how anyone can think that giving young people longer criminal sentences is the most important issue facing the country, when crime rates are dropping and global warming threatens the future of all youth (plus everyone else). But then I came across an on-line mini-lecture by Dan Gilbert — best-selling author, Harvard Psychology ...
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“Each time history repeats itself, the price goes up.”
fire! (1)
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I’m home in Vermont after a three-day jaunt to the midwest, and look what happened while I was gone! The woods are aflame. I carted State By State on my trip with me, which added a strange new dimension to the always strange experience of being hyperlinked across the country from airport to airport. I read Dave Eggers’ essay on Illinois en route to Chicago. And Susan Choi’s on Indiana as I flew over the ...
25 years ago today, this man saved my life. And yours. (12)
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On 26th September, 1983, at the nadir of the Cold War, this man — Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov — made a judgement call that saved my life. (I was then living five miles from the Vickers Tank Factory in Leeds and about ten miles from the M1/M62 intersection — both major strategic targets.) If you're over 25 years old and live in the UK, he saved your life, too. If you're over 25 years old and ...
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Bruce said:
Not many people can claim to have averted nuclear apocalypse.
Iraq gay leader murdered (1)
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(London) A British LGBT rights group said Thursday it had received word that the Baghdad coordinator of London-based organization Iraqi LGBT had been murdered. Outrage said the killing was carried out by one of the two religious militia in the country, but it was not known which one. The man ...
Religious leaders call for fast in support of gay marriage ban (1)
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(San Francisco, California) Hundreds of pastors have called on their congregations to fast and pray for passage of a ballot measure in November that would put an end to gay marriage in California. The collective act of piety, starting Wednesday and culminating three days before the election in a revival for ...
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