Lord Sacks, UK’s chief Rabbi, in an interfaith gathering attended by the Queen, blamed
for creating an “egocentric culture.” He said that the consumer-driven society, which Apple helped create, spread unhappiness amongst people.
“People are looking for values other than the values of a consumer society. The values of a consumer society really aren’t ones you can live by for terribly long. 
The consumer society was laid down by the late (more…)

. While most of them were optimistic about the developments happening in the HTML 5 scene, many Flash enthusiasts were unsurprisingly not pleased with the decision.
Mike Chambers, Product Manager for Flash at Adobe, has penned a 2000 words long post on his personal blog outlining the major reasons Flash as a web platform didn’t gain critical mass on mobile phones leading to Adobe’s decision.
He acknowledged that Flash wasn’t going to be ubiquitous (more…)

It’s the first time our guy has seen this happen (us too), but the brand new iPhone 4 caught on fire while being hooked up to a computer using the Apple USB cable that accompanied the device. The customer wanted to exchange the iPhone — obviously — for a new, non-charred unit however the AT&T store in question was out of stock. An Apple Store did confirm to our AT&T connection that this did appear to be a defective USB port and not some sort (more…)

Interestingly, Attwood has placed the blame for the attack on Goatse security – the hacking group that exposed the vulnerability instead of taking full responsibility. She writes that the hackers exploited a functionality on the AT&T website for their own publicity. The feature that was exploited was meant to let
users login faster by pre-populating the subscriber authentication page with the user's email address. The AT&T email notes:
“The (more…)

compared to the US.
Please educate yourself. UK prices must by law include VAT, which is around 18%. US prices do not include tax.
Value added tax (VAT) is similar to the sales tax that is familiar to most residents of the United States, but is applied uniformly throughout the country for a given type of item and is included in the advertised pricing. Sales tax in the United States is not included in advertised pricing, as it varies significantly (more…)

The list of banned iPhone apps include popular applications such as WiFi-Where, WiFiFoFum and yFy Network Finder. In their message to the iPhone app developers, the iPhone app review staff have noted that the ban on iPhone apps is due to their use of private APIs to access wireless information. While Apple has not explicitly spelt out the private API in question, it is being speculated to be iPhone ‘s built-in 802.11 radio.
Noting the ban on several (more…)

Speaking at the Goldman Sachs technology conference, Narayen sought to clear the air on two myths that have been doing the rounds. The first he said was about HTML5 being a threat to Flash. Narayen clarified that 85 of the top 100 websites in the world employed Flash along with 75% of online videos including those on properties such as Youtube and Hulu. Pointing out to the emerging social gaming space, Narayen said 70% of internet's casual gaming (more…)

At a conference call hosted by his firm, Hallaren alleged that AT&T's capital expenditure on wireless networks from 2006 to Q3 2009 totalled $21.6 billion. In comparison, Verizon spent $25.4 billion on its wireless network while Sprint spent $16 billion in this time period. Hallaren argued that the per subscriber spending by AT&T was just $308 compared to $310 spent by Sprint and $353 spent by Verizon.
income vs. expenditure
” on AT&T's (more…)