AT&T has poached a lot of customers from Verizon Wireless because of the exclusive Apple iPhone contract. The iPhone, iPhone 3G, and iPhone 3G S have been the hottest smartphones selling on the market over the last few years. Motorola has also felt the pain of losing customers to the Apple iPhone too as their sales have decreased substantially. Given that Verizon and Motorola have both been feeling the pain, they teamed up with Google to launch a new smartphone called the Droid. The Droid is expected to arrive in late October or early November.
As the three companies are preparing to launch the Droid, a video has been released in order to get the hype going. The video knocks on all the features that the iPhone lacks such as the lack of a keyboard, background application capabilities, and a high resolution flash camera. The Droid commercial points out the lack of the features starting with the expression “iDon’t.” And everything “iDon’t,” Droid does. Based on how intense the video looks, I’d say Apple should be concerned. This video has a “we’re not messing around this time” vibe towards the end.
The Droid is expected to be powered by the TI OMAP3430 core which is also used by the Palm Pre and iPhone. The Verizon Droid will be using the Android v.2.0 operating system. Google expects at least 18 devices to be powered by Android by the end of 2009.
Over the last few days, there was a media frenzy about Falcon Heene. Falcon is the son of Richard and Mayumi Heene and it was once believed that he was trapped in a basket of a balloon filled with helium. The media went crazy about the story of the silver balloon traveling at a rapid pace while everyone believed the boy was inside.
It turns out that Falcon was in the attic of his house the whole time. Shortly after the boy was discovered to be safe, it was rumored that the whole event was a hoax. The whole incident did end up being a hoax indeed after Falcon mentioned on CNN “We did this for the show.” Gawker paid for the exclusive story about how the hoax was set-up.
It turns out that the hoax was made in order to gain the attention for an upcoming science fiction reality show. The stunt was planned by Richard Heene and Robert Thomas. Now criminal charges will be filed against Falcon’s parents.
The whole time the balloon was in mid-air, the amount of Twitter and Facebook status updates spiked. What are your thoughts about the whole incident? Should Falcon’s parents be punished or not? Leave a comment.
The Wolfram Alpha search engine is one of the most sophisticated search engines I have ever seen. It is a lot more advanced than Google in doing calculations and solving problems, but it is not as appealing when it comes to searching for websites. The problem is that Wolfram Alpha does not have mainstream appeal, yet the company has still decided to charge $50 for their iPhone application.
The Wolfram Alpha iPhone application plugs into the API of the search engine directly and delivers results at a fast pace. This application seems extremely useful to a financial analyst but not very common for a typical consumer especially considering the price.
When I went directly to the Wolfram Alpha website on the Safari browser on the iPhone, it turns out that the user interface was quite friendly too. Below is a screenshot of what the website looks like on the web browser. Once I find out what the main difference is between the iPhone app and the web version, then I’ll update this post. If you download the app, leave a comment. After the jump is a couple of screenshots of the web version of WolframAlpha.
Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump will soon be married. Jared is the son of real estate mogul Charles Kushner. Jared recently acquired The New York Observer for $10 million. The New York Observer bought Very Short List from IAC in June. Ivanka is the daughter of real estate mogul and reality TV star Donald Trump.
Since the wedding between Jared and Ivanka is coming up, the couple has been planning away on how to set it up. Ivanka decided to turn to Twitter for help in choosing a wedding song.
“Need some help picking a wedding song…send me your thoughts,” tweeted Ivanka. Some of the suggestions Ivanka received includes Ella Fitzgerald’s “At Last” and Edwin McCain’s “I’ll Be (Your Crying Shoulder).”
Personally I’d suggest The Apprentice theme song The O’Jays – For The Love Of Money. Between the two, that is a lot of stuff that they will be inheriting so it makes sense in my head.
This past July Sarah Palin quit as the governor of Alaska. Initially when she quit, many people speculated was so that she could focus on the next presidential election but Palin said that she wanted to spend more time with her family.
Now the former Alaskan governor is interested in “job inquiries” on professional social network LinkedIn. And she chose the username “governorsarahpalin.”
Palin put her full work experience time-line on the social network too. She listed the Governor of the State of Alaska, the Vice Presidential Candidate of the 2008 Election, the Chairperson of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, the Mayor of the Town of Wasilla, and the Council Member of the Wasilla City Council. Under education, she put a Bachelor’s degree in communications-journalism from the University of Idaho which ended up being the fifth college she attended before finishing a degree.
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