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By Mike Abundo
For weeks, I’ve been hearing Apple fanboys pan Verizon’s Motorola Droid ads as too geeky and unappealing for the mass market. I’ve been hearing fanboys claim that nongeeks can’t understand “open development”, that they’d be scared off by images of stealth bombers. Then I read an essay by Paul Graham about the abuses of the iPhone app store, and I suddenly realize the genius of Verizon’s nongeek-alienating marketing strategy. [Read more…]
Originally posted on November 20, 2009 @ 10:33 am
By Mike Abundo
If want to create/consume rich new media at the blazingly fast pace of today’s Internet, you need tools that can keep up. Here’s one of those tools. Breaking world processor speed records, the AMD Phenom II has been successfully overclocked to an astonishing 7.08 gigahertz.
That’s a lot of liquid helium.
Originally posted on November 22, 2009 @ 10:41 pm
By Mike Abundo
Sony isn’t known for making interoperable or user-friendly devices, but their industrial design is almost as pretty as Apple’s. From laptops to readers to bracelets, check out their latest design concepts for flexible organic light-emitting diode (OLED) displays.
Originally posted on November 22, 2009 @ 10:28 pm