Remember back when gmail was new and they were talking about targeting ads to people based on the contents of their email, and some people were freaking out? Not me. I didn’t really care. I’m all for privacy and find most web ads distasteful, but this didn’t bother me too much. I’ll tell you what [...]
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mocoNewsnet: Android’s Scare With Malware Makes Apple’s Tough Love Policy On iPhone More Reasonable | mocoNews.net
February 1st, 2009 · Comments Off · General
This recent article in mocoNewsnet points to some of the problems and tensions surrounding mobile computing, which are also metaphors for other forms of governance in a networked world. The article basically rehashes some of the gripes developers have had with Apple’s approach to the iPhone App Store — basically, that they are too tight-fisted, [...]
Good personal tech news
September 30th, 2008 · 3 Comments · General
This is of probably interest only to my personal techy friends, so I apologize to the rest of you for clogging your RSS readers. Remember back when I was griping about my tech problems in June? Well, the PC issue has been solved it seems, and it wasn’t the motherboard. I replaced my mobo (an [...]
Broken Tech
June 24th, 2008 · 2 Comments · General
A few months ago, my PC died. Bad motherboard. I haven’t had the money or time to fix it, plus I use my iBook for most everything these days anyway. Two weeks ago I dropped the Treo into a pint of Guinness, rendering it pretty much useless. I have finally borrowed an old flip phone, [...]
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