Windows Phone Hits 10,000 Apps, Nick Still Doesn’t Have One
Outpacing Apple’s App Store and Android’s Marketplace in their respective five months after debut, Microsoft’s Windows Phone has surpassed 10,000 applications, a great sign for the platform as it goes forward. Oh, sure, those other stores have been out for years and Microsoft has to compete with existing standards, but the momentum being where it is (and building!), signs are looking up for the fledgling Zune phone.
Some day I’ll have one, too. *sniff*
Source: Engadget via Windows Phone 7 Application Listing
Did Yahoo Just Sell Delicious?
The rumor mill is constantly churning and the latest is that Yahoo just sold Delicious for $5 million reports The Next Web. This doesn’t come as a surprise with the rumor in December that Yahoo was closing them down. Yahoo bought delicious in 2005 for between $15 and $30 million and now if they sold it they are loosing a hell of a lot of money. This also isn’t surprising since it seems that startups go to Yahoo to die. Does anyone still use Delicious or is it one of those sites that’s slowly dying off like Digg?
Defects in Your iPad 2 Already?
Last year I had defects in my iPhone 4 and now it looks like at least one of those defects is affecting the new iPad 2’s. The yellow spots from the adhesive used to glue the screen to the glass is popping up on numerous iPad 2’s. Some people are also reporting their backlight bleeding onto the screen and stuck pixels or lines of stuck pixels. Let us know if you are experiencing any issues if you bought an iPad 2!
Gadget Pr0n – iPad 2 Teardown!
Oh yeah baby, remove that panel and show me your RAM! iFixit did a complete teardown for your viewing pleasures, interesting is it only has 512MB of ram :( – Go check out all of the pictures at iFixit.
Stop Waiting for Chrome Notebooks, They’re Gone!
If you are still hoping that you will get a Google Chrome notebook you can stop waiting because they are now gone, sorry. I got one from the first shipment and haven’t used it as much as I would like. Nick got his about a month ago and his came with stickers (mine didn’t :( so Google if you read this can you send me some stickers). Well I just found out that they got 60,000 made and now they are finally out. So if you really want one you can buy one from eBay or just wait until Summer when they release better ones that will be available for a few hundred bucks at your local electronics retailer or online.
Electric Cars: Tesla Decides Bigger Batteries Are Awesome, Chevy Figures The Opposite
I’ve mentioned it before, but I have to say that if one of the electric car manufacturers wanted to drop one of their vehicles on my insurance policy, I can’t say I’d cry (that I am sans vehiculus at the moment is completely relevant). For many folks, there’s still a lot of trepidation around a purchase because of the range and price of these cars and while it doesn’t look like that’s changing any time soon, some recent announcements seem to highlight where some strategies are working and where they’re not.
MIT Media Lab Gets 40,000 New Logos
Usually when one thinks of a logo, they think of a single form crafted by millions of dollars and an artist’s deft hand. MIT’s Media Lab, responsible for such ground-breaking ideas as the One Laptop Per Child project and other interesting tech projects, decided to freshen up the ol’ identity and come up with a mathematically-generated logo. Consisting of three black square “projectors” and their intersecting gradients, the logo is generated individually for each new business card or slab of signage. Check out a video of the algorithm and branding in place at the source.
Source: Fast Company
Why I Am Not Getting an iPad 2…or any other tablet. Yet.
As most know the Apple iPad 2 was announced last week by Apple in typical fanfare. As a gadget nerd I often get an itch to buy a tablet just because it’s something shiny and new. Right now, it seems better than ever to jump on the bandwagon. You have the iPad 2, you have the Motorola Xoom and you also have the HP Touchpad coming out in the summer along with the what seems like infinite other Android tablets. Yet here I am, confident another year will pass and I will not buy a Tablet.
Why? Read on to find out.
IE9 Launching March 14th, Who Cares?
Over at The Windows Blog they posted an update saying that the new Internet Explorer will finally launch on March 14th at 9pm PST. Oh and guess what? They are launching while they are at SXSW. Is that really the target audience that they want to get? I thought that everyone in the whole online biz hated IE? As much as I hate IE I will be happy if I don’t have to have separate style sheets to support it. I’m speaking like that because I still haven’t installed it on my computer, I already have IE6, IE7 and IE8, I don’t need another one…
I’m NOT Going to Facebook to Watch Movies!
Let’s please stop this now before it gets out of hands. Will you really go to Facebook to watch movies? Warner Brothers thinks you will. The first title, The Dark Knight, is available for 30 Facebook credit or $3 for a 48 hour rental period. You can read more about this tomfoolery at the Wall Street Journal.
