August 2011
22 posts
DOJ sues AT&T over takeover of T-Mobile
via got80s:
Uncle Sam says no to AT&T eating up T-Mobile: the Department of Justice has filed an antitrust suit against the former,Bloomberg reports.
The US says “AT&T’s elimination of T-Mobile as an independent, low- priced rival would remove a significant competitive force from the market.” Yep, pretty much. AT&T’s efforts just got a hell of a lot...
science fiction used as evidence in tablet device...
Apple is currently suing Samsung over patent rights, claiming that Samsung’s tablet is too similar to the iPad, but Samsung is using science fiction to defend itself in court.
Samsung notes that “the tablet disclosed in the clip has an overall rectangular shape with a dominant display screen, narrow borders, a predominately flat front surface, a flat back surface (which is...
Pejic on gender assumptions and identity
New York Magazine has a wonderful feature on “The prettiest boy in the world,” Andrej Pejic:
And though he may not exactly bristle at the gender distinctions made by others, he does question their underlying assumptions. “In this society, if a man is called a woman, that’s the biggest insult he could get.” He arches his eyebrows skeptically and asks, “Is that because women are...
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Watchthechriscrocker:
VIEW THE TRAILER FOR CHRIS CROCKER’S DOCUMENTARY HERE!
This looks like it’s going to be fascinating! Can’t wait till it’s finished production.
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Would You Read E-Books on Facebook? →
rachelmennies:
After Kno gave up on its textbook ereader earlier this year, it was left with a digital textbook software that had little distinction from others on the market. On Wednesday, it announced the first of its efforts to snazz up its platform — including a Facebook app.
The app gives readers access to their books through the social platform. Kno is the first of major players to offer...
Amanda Palmer: The Art of Audience Courtship
Amanda Palmer on art, audiences, and courtship:
if you stick truly to what you care about and talk about what you want to talk about, your don’t have to care, or even be interested, but they’ll probably repsect your authenticity. the minute you start aiming to please your fans and going against your intuition, you start losing your footing. this isn’t to say you can’t write songs or make art...
Grandpa Box vs. Mobile Computing
I’m not a huge fan of Dilbert (frankly, I find its endorsement of cynicism disturbing), but @Robin2go linked to this wonderful comic about the “Grandpa Box” and developing mobile technologies:
The tyranny of the "Like" button
Neil Strauss writes in the WSJ of “The Insidious Evils of ‘Like” Culture”:
Once, there was something called a point of view. And, after much strife and conflict, it eventually became a commonly held idea in some parts of the world that people were entitled to their own points of view.
Unfortunately, this idea is becoming an anachronism. When the Internet first came into...
