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A Swedish wolf in Norway

Miscellaneous technobabble from a Swede in Norway.

Posts tagged with "iphone"

iMadness

Friday, 11. July 2008, 07:29:28

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iPhone release - the first customers enter the shop from Anna on Vimeo. Read the full article here (Swedish).


I’m glad I wasn’t there.

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Iphone 3G

Tuesday, 10. June 2008, 06:58:08

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Seems that the Iphone is finally getting an update to bring it to the 21st century, with 3G support and such, and it is coming to Scandinavia. I have previously not been very impressed with it, due to its lack of standard features. This update does make it a bit better, and with the SDK and App Store, it means that there hopefully will be third-party programs that can fix up a lot of the things missing from it.

I haven’t seen the full specifications for the new Iphone yet. But it does indeed sound a lot more interesting now. It will be interesting to see what the response from smartphone giants Sony Ericsson and Nokia will be.

Update: Seems it is still lacking a lot of necessary functionality. Too bad.

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Obligatory hype blog entry

Tuesday, 27. May 2008, 11:59:10

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Apparently TeliaSonera is taking Iphone to Scandinavia (in Norway through subsidiary NetCom). Unless it is a major upgrade to the one that is released elsewhere, I would say it is too little, too late. I can’t personally see why anyone would want an Iphone with its current specifications. It does look good, yes, but who really cares?

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Patently pathetic

Friday, 29. February 2008, 07:59:16

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Patents were invented for a reason, to share your inventions with others, with the given benefit of giving the inventor the sole right, for a short period, to produce, or decide who will produce, the invention. As Opera’s Charles McCathieNevile writes, this doesn’t work for software. Patenting ideas is bad. The Patent Troll Tracker blog was started to keep track of patent trolls like Ray Niro, who says he has the sole right to decide who can post a JPEG image on a web site. He recently posted a bounty of five thousand dollars to reveal the identity of the owner of the blog, and succeeded.

In other recent pathetic patent news, Apple was sued by another patent troll who claims to have invented the idea to connect caller identification with a phone book. If that’s not an obvious invention, I don’t know what is. Fortunately, the patent should expire soon.

Did I mention that software patents are silly? I think I did. They are.

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