Archive for July 2008
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Why Installer.app may not be dead. Yet.
The iPhone 3G has been out for one week now, and with it came the App Store, which allows iPhone users sporting the new 2.0 firmware to download a variety of applications that Apple has deemed worthy. Some of these applications cost money, others are totally free. Many of these applications happen to be duplicates [...]
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iPhone 3G sports a poor GPS.
It’s iPhone 3G release day, and the havoc out there makes it pretty clear that the activation process for new phones was far from smooth. In fact, it was so unsmooth that owners of the “old” iPhone had trouble upgrading to the iPhone 2.0 firmware because the iTunes store took a big hit and fell [...]
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Poor journalism perpetuated on FISA issues.
We’ve followed Ars Technica’s take on the FISA for a long while now, and consistently shake our head when we read their latest thoughts. That’s not to say that there aren’t bits of truth in the respective commentary, but Ars Technica’s writers have become grossly negligent when it comes to FISA reporting. That’s not to [...]
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Why Starbucks is cooling down.
When news exploded about Starbucks shutting down 600 stores in the near future, we weren’t particularly surprised. That’s because since our patronage of Starbucks some five years ago, we’ve seen a general lack of consistency in the brand. Even in the same city, albeit the considerable city of San Francisco, consistency among Starbucks stores [...]
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Why the Motorola H700 sucks.
We bought our first Motorola bluetooth earpiece around five years ago, and after it died, we bought an H700. Selection for bluetooth earpieces wasn’t great, and everyone who used bluetooth earpieces stood behind Motorola’s quality, so we assumed that our first device dying after only a year or so of use was a fluke.
Admittedly, the [...]
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