Archive for March, 2011

Apple announced today that it will be saying goodbye to Bertrand Serlet, Apple’s senior vice president of Mac Software Engineering. Serlet is leaving the company after 22 years of working with Steve Jobs. Serlet is responsible for Mac OS X and has spent nearly 14 years leading Apple’s development of its operating systems.

Apple has been getting a lot of heat for allowing an app into the App Store that many people find objectionable. The app, from anti-gay Christan group Exodus International, is designed to be a resource for men, women, parents, students, and ministry leaders. The organization describes itself as “the world’s largest ministry to individuals and families impacted by homosexuality.”

With the retirement of the Space Shuttle imminent, a lot of attention has been given to the spacecraft and the work that goes into preparing it for travel. What has seemed to go unnoticed are two lesser components which are necessary for any successful shuttle mission. The solid rocket boosters (SRBs), one attached to each […]

Recently swallowed T-Mobile has a history of launching interesting, market-bending handsets. T-Mobile, after all, was the first American mobile company to release the texting friendly Sidekick, and they were also Google’s launch partner with the first Android phone, the G1.
Now T-Mobile is trendsetting with a new handset: the world’s first glasses-free 3d Android smartphone, running […]

According to PCMag, AT&T’s Android phones are the “most-locked down in the industry.” You can’t install third-party apps from outside the Android Market, which means you can’t install any apps from the Amazon App Store.

With this weekend’s surprise revelation that AT&T would be buying T-Mobile for $39 billion, thus taking the crown from Verizon as the country’s biggest cell provider, you’d think that Verizon would be worried. Maybe even angry. Maybe even angry enough to do something rash, like use its lobbying money to try to pressure the government […]