Archives for August 2008
I’m not one to weigh in on US politics: it’s not my country; I don’t have a vote there. So in a sense, it’s none of my business. But look… John McCain just picked this person Sarah Palin as his running mate. She thinks it’s important to teach creationism to children in schools, alongside evolution, [...]
Seems like we’re likely to be days weeks away from the first publicly available download for Sun Microsystems’s new Enterprise-class virtualization system, xVM Server. A lot of people have been waiting for this. xVM Server will form an important part of Sun’s software stack.
Over the last few years, Sun has been pulling together a genuinely [...]
An iPhone TV advertisement has just been banned in the UK. At issue was Apple’s claim that iPhone can access “all parts of the Internet”. The UK Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) upheld complaints that pointed out that this was not true, because iPhone cannot view web-sites that incorporate applets running under technologies such as Flash [...]
Apple is a phenomenally successful company. With a market cap of $155B, the public markets value it about the same as Google, and about three times the value of Dell. Sometimes, though, you have to think that Apple succeeds in spite of itself. When Apple launched iPhone, it was obvious that the upfront costs of [...]
Which has the greater mind-share among developers - Apple’s iPhone or RIM’s Blackberry? It’s not a difficult question to answer. I think we can safely say that, today, it’s the iPhone. That wasn’t always the case though - the Blackberry platform has been around for years longer than the iPhone. It’s clear, though, that RIM [...]
Apple’s new MobileMe sync software is giving people some big problems. Big enough problems that they’re quitting using the service. For example, see what Robert Scoble has to say in his post - Warning: your calendar is in danger with Apple’s Mobile Me. I know a lot of people are disappointed, but the [...]
Yesterday, in a “break” from a lovely weekend filled with work (oh joy!), I decided to see if I could find an answer to a question about JavaFX that I’ve been wondering about for a while. What was the question? It’s this: will JavaFX be able to compete with Flash when it comes to rich [...]