May 23, 2010

The Mongoliad - Neal Stephenson's experiment in 'post-book publishing and storytelling'

The Mongoliad is an intriguing new venture created by author Neal Stephenson in which he, Greg Bear, Nicole Galland, Mark Teppo and other authors will be telling 'a sort of serialized story' via custom apps on the iPad, iPhone, Kindle and Android.

An alpha version is due to be demoed at the SF App Show on Tuesday 25 May, and there are Facebook pages for both the alpha demo event and for The Mongoliad itself.

April 27, 2010

Police seize Jason Chen's computers over iPhone HD affair

Police have seized computers from the home of Gizmodo's Jason Chen as part of the investigation into the loss, then purchase by Gizmodo, of Apple's prototype iPhone HD.

Here's the search warrant:

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and the police inventory:

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And here's the response from Gaby Darbyshire, COO and legal representative of Gizmodo's owners Gawker Media LLC, who believe the warrant is invalid:

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police-seize-jason-chen-s-computers-over-iphone-hd-affair-hIvuefGIlnBzABbyrhkv.zip (192 KB)

Read the full story over at Gizmodo.

April 24, 2010

Old Skool iPhone

via etsy.com

April 19, 2010

This IS the new iPhone HD!

So say those nice people at Gizmodo.com. And they have lots of new pictures and video of it to show you.

April 19, 2010

Is this the new iPhone HD?

Engadget thinks so and has more pictures too. Mashable don't seem so sure. What do you think?

April 14, 2010

O2, Vodafone and Orange all to offer UK iPad deals

The Guardian says UK iPad users (when we can actually buy an iPad over here) will be able to choose between Orange, O2 and Vodafone 3G services for their 'magical' device. Although none of these providers are yet ready to tell us how much their dedicated iPad plans will cost, the idea of linking an iPad mini-SIM card to your existing iPhone contract sounds quite interesting to me...

As for the timing of these incomplete announcementes, would it be too cynical to wonder if they were made today to soften the blow of Apple's announcement of the delayed international iPad launch?

April 9, 2010

Conservatives ignore the Data Protection Act with their camaigning iPhone App?

Those tech-savvy Tories (you know - the ones who helped push through the ill-conceived Digital Economy Bill) have released a free iPhone app - The Conservative Party General Election App.

One feature of the app, called "Call a Friend", provides you with a list of your iPhone Contacts for you to call and try to persuade them to vote Tory. After the call, you get a form to fill out about your friend's voting intentions and then email back to Tory High Command. Sounds dodgy?

Well it looks like it may be. This blog post points out that this harvesting of personal data, without consent and the requisite privacy notice, seems to contravene the Data Protection Act...