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Fewer iPhone4 Dropped Calls on Verizon, report finds
According to a report featured on Ars Technica today, data has been found that supports a general consensus: there are fewer dropped calls for iPhone 4 users on Verizon’s network. According to the data collected by the research group, ChangeWave Research, Verizon Wireless iPhone 4 users reported having around 1.8% of their calls dropped, on [...]
Thoughts on Moving from Apache to Nginx
This week I made a pretty epic decision for someone who has spent a good majority of my time singing the praises of the Apache HTTPD server. I switched to the nginx web server (pronounced “Engine-X”). I don’t know what I was expecting – but the transition was not nearly as bad as I thought [...]
Proprietary App Stores Bode Trouble for Android
It is rare that I find myself genuinely concerned when I read the tech news. I am quite often bemused, or even annoyed – but rarely concerned. However, today, I am concerned. On TalkAndroid today there’s an article discussing Amazon’s intent to open their own Android App Store. This article also brought it to my attention [...]
Cellphone Frustrations
Since I was 15, I’ve owned a cellphone of one kind or another. This past summer, as most of my regular readers know, I made the jump to the smartphone world with my purchase of a Google Nexus One. This was an expensive purchase, but one that I didn’t mind making under the impression that [...]
Apple is learning their lesson
Many apologizes for not getting a blog post out yesterday – or even getting a substantial post out today. The nature of being a student means that sometimes you hit bad weeks. But, I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to comment on Apple loosening their restrictions on app developers. CNN Money reports that Apple is taking efforts [...]
Here Endith the Jailbreak Honeymoon
Well it looks like the jailbreak honeymoon is over. Stories about how iPhone jailbreaking code could potentially be used to create iPhone rootkits have started surfacing. I can’t say I’m entirely surprised. Since the federal government ruled that jailbreaking was an exception to the DMCA copyright law, it has been getting coverage on major media [...]
Saudi Kingdom vs RIM
So I may be the only person that finds this concerning, but the Saudi government seems to want RIM, the company behind Blackberry, to have a physical server for their Blackberry Messenger service located in-country. For those who don’t know, BlackBerry’s internal network is entirely encrypted making it hard for governments to peek into for [...]
Apple’s Magic… Trackpad?
So, I usually applaud companies that try to set the curve for new user input standards, and such innovations are usually met with an “ooh ahh” by me… but to be honest – I don’t really know what to make of this: I mean, it’s kind of cool looking… I guess… but the “buy this [...]
Google’s “Almost Revolution”
There are times in history that we can define certain points as changing the course of everything that followed. This is especially true in the technology industry. Since the technological revolution is such a recent ordeal, and so accelerated compared to other major sequences of events in history, there are events in time, even within [...]
iOS, Android, and You
If you’re in the market for a new phone, congratulations – you’re a buyer in a market that is truly experiencing the benefits of competitive competition between rivals. What we are witnessing in the market right now is the fiends of the Tech industry moving into the mobile market in mass, and the result is [...]
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