The amount of lawyers with dollar bills in their eyes right now is astronomically large. Lawsuit waiting to happen aside, what you’re about to see below is Urho Konttori, Project Manager at Nokia, with a Super Nintendo emulator called DrNokSnes installed on his Nokia N900. He hooked up a Nintendo Wii controller to it, which…
Prediction: The Apple Tablet doesn’t exist and the new MacBook will use Pineview
I’m not going to list the reasons why I think the Apple Tablet doesn’t exist, I’ve done that already in a 3000+ word rant last month. Hell I got a phone call from Fox News to comment on a story. Yes I read the recent “Ten New Details on the Apple Tablet” article by Jeremy…
Becoming a better blogger, reader and helping me take out the trash: Trimming in Public: Episode 20
Trimming in Public is a series where I go through my list of 293 RSS feeds, 10 feeds at a time, give some detail as to why I subscribed to a particular feed, and then decide whether or not to keep on consuming that feed. In Episode 1, I explained what RSS is and how…
R.I.P. #24: Yet another suicide in France; Orange employee left a note blaming work
Today the 24th suicide to occur over the past 18 months of a France Telecom employee has just happened. The unidentified man was a 51 year old father of two. He jumped from an over pass and left a note blaming “the atmosphere at work” for his decision to commit suicide. Video here. Our condolences…
Great headline, but probably never going to happen: EU considering issuing a recall on the iPhone
Meglena Kuneva, EU Commissioner for Consumer Affairs, is a bit pissed off that she has had to receive complaints from Britain, France and Germany about iPhones hurting people thanks to batteries that over heat, hiss and even explode. The EU will conduct their own tests of the iPhone hardware, and if they find a problem,…
John Martin, former Vice President of iPhone and Mac Internet Services at Apple, joining Nokia
John Martin, who according to his LinkedIn profile was Vice President of iPhone and Mac Internet Services at Apple from August 2005 to September 2008, is joining Nokia to head up the group working on Maemo and Maemo based devices according to the Finnish publication Talous Sanomat. Martin has worked in a huge variety of…
CEO of Dopplr, Marko Ahtisaari, to become the Head of Nokia Design
Dopplr, which Nokia purchased yesterday, was headed by CEO Marko Ahtisaari. Arctic Startup has just learned that he has been appointed Head of Nokia Design. That’s a hell of a promotion. Marko Ahtisaari has a rich history, besides being the CEO of Dopplr, he sits on the board of directors at F-Secure, Newsmill, Artek and…
Brief: Android 1.6 available for the HTC Android Dev Phone
One of the lucky people to have an official Google Android Developer’s Phone? Well Android 1.6 just got released. Go download it. [Hat tip to Jean-Baptiste Queru]
Becoming a better blogger, reader and helping me take out the trash: Trimming in Public: Episode 19
Trimming in Public is a series where I go through my list of 293 RSS feeds, 10 feeds at a time, give some detail as to why I subscribed to a particular feed, and then decide whether or not to keep on consuming that feed. In Episode 1, I explained what RSS is and how…
Brief: Nokia, Samsung, Sony, Toshiba and Silicon Image working on an HD interface for mobile phones
Whoever wrote this press release deserves an award. There is literally no fluff and it is so perfect that rewording it just to add a quick pun at the end would be a disservice to the author: SUNNYVALE, California, September 28, 2009 – Nokia Corporation, Samsung Electronics, Silicon Image, Sony Corporation and Toshiba Corporation today…