Twitter: I'm amazed at how much screen real estate is lost by misconfigured Word 2003 toolbars on the average employee's computer. http://ff.im/5r99 4 hrs ago

On my N82: spent some time with Opera Mini after a while - had been using Nokia’s built-in S60 Browser exclusively over  the past few months. Read more




Yesterday, Apple pulled an application named Podcaster from the iPhone App Store. With Podcaster, iPhone/iPod Touch users could “update podcasts directly on the device over wifi.” Apple rejected the application because Read more




Arrington on Techcrunch talks about the possibility of Amazon licensing its Kindle ebook reader hardware specs and trademark to third-party manufacturers: Read more




iPhone 3G, finally, will be available in India on August 22nd through Airtel. While I’m excited about the world’s most revolutionary phone meeting the world’s fastest growing market, I’m not buying one for myself. Instead, last month I purchased a Nokia N82 Black, having decided that iPhone 3G was not for me. Why would I pass up the chance to own perhaps the sexiest piece of electronic hardware in the country? Read more




More iPhone strategy from Bob Cringely. While he’s spot-on with most of his columns, I don’t agree with his line of thought in this week’s column. Read more




This time by John Dvorak, on Dow Jones’ Marketwatch:

First, Dvorak’s take on the browser strategy is the same as mine (read yesterday’s post): Read more




… but he doesn’t seem to have gotten things bang-on either, with regard to the supposed “closed” nature of the iPhone.

Steve Jobs admitted at the D conference that Apple was rather cagey about allowing developers to write third-party apps to run on the iPhone: Read more