What , Dan Moren ’s not available ? Where could he be ? What could he be doing that ’s so important , it accept precedence over theMacworldnews remainders for Friday , January 14 , 2011 ?
MIT Mystery Hunt(MIT )
patently a bunch of eccentric get together and solve puzzles over a weekend at this Boston - expanse event , which kicked off this morning . Shame that it starts on a Friday , though . That close out a Boston - surface area person from participate in it , unless they took a personal day … wait a arcsecond . Moren ! ! !
As an employee of a cartridge clip that still publishes on those dead tree , I recuse myself from make any laugh about this one . Sorry .
Sprint chief executive officer offers ‘ no comment ’ on possibility of gain Apple ’s iPhone(AppleInsider )
Only in the overheated globe of Apple write up would aninnocuous “ no comment”from Sprint ’s chief executive officer be turned into a six - paragraph level speculating about what it all stand for . Hey , I ’m intrigued by the idea of Sprint getting the iPhone too . But sometimes no grounds is just no grounds .
Verizon iPhone 4 : Promising , but likely to be unforesightful - lived(Consumer Reports )
Apple ’s sometime - nemesis , sometime - palConsumer Reportsis back with a blog post that mixes a little bit of dusty - water system reality with a little bit ofpersnickety nitpickery . I could deconstruct the post , but there ’s no level when you’re able to readBryan Chaffin ’s depth psychology of theConsumer Reportsanalysisover at The Mac Observer .
Charlie Rose talks to Verizon CEO Seidenberg(Bloomberg BusinessWeek )
In this audience with Verizon CEO Ivan Sidenberg , we con that Verizon was never really much of an alternative to Cingular / AT&T as a launching partner for the iPhone , because Apple was “ more focussed on a single applied science , ” namely the GSM technology that works with both AT&T and carriers all over the world . “ If you do your job well , then in an diligence like this , finally the correct partners are going to end up on the dance storey , ” Seidenberg said . Aww , and Steve Jobs necessitate Ivan to dance ! Nobodytell Joe Wilcox .
Old Sierra On - Line games now available on iPad via the web(TUAW viaTouch Arcade )
Long , long ago , there were a bunch of crazy computer adventure game publish by Sierra On - Line . I had King ’s Quest for my Apple II , and it was the only game I ever escort that took full advantage of its super - high - res graphics mode . Well , now those games are uncommitted to be play on the iPad , via your entanglement web browser app . At least , until the intellectual - holding attorneys come criticise . Wait , what am I talking about ? Intellectual - dimension attorneys do n’t pick apart . Theynuke the site from orbit . Enjoy your King ’s Quest while you may , iPad substance abuser .
Inside a deep brown factory so nerdy it ’s controlled by an iPhone(Gizmodo viaThe Feast )
San Francisco hot chocolate factory Tcho ( Technology and Chocolate , y’know ) is exceedingly high technical school , ace hip , and super controlled by an iPhone . Insert your own “ Willy Wonka ” joke here — I’m go home .
