Posts by Yakumo

Samsung threatens Apple in response to patent lawsuit

lol

The design is basically what you get if you aim for a minimal bevel, sensibly rounded corners to protect both the device and user, a usable speaker and a button.

http://www.designbyinfinity.com/internet/680649f7.png

Hacker brings multitouch to Google's Nexus One

Android was open source & multitouch != pinch-zoom

All Google recently did was release the newest 2.1 Software Development Kit, Android has been OSS since Google first released it, it's not some sudden giant turnaround 'wow google open sourced their OS'

"Android has been available as open source since 21 October 2008. Google opened the entire source code under an Apache License"

Also Android OS and the Nexus 1 and Droid hardware completely support multitouch, the Google apps do also but the apps have the pinch-zoom function crippled in the US due to some licensing problem, the milestone simply had that cripple removed for europe before shipping the droid/milestone phones and software are identical. All Cyanogen did was remove that same software lock for the nexus, they didn't 'code multitouch for android' just disable a small software cripple in the same way hackers are making Google Navigation work outside of the US (again only disabled due to as of yet unresolved licensing issues).

BT threatens to pull plug on better broadband

Fibre To The Home please.

Virgins network does not provide FTTH, which is all anyone in touch with the times is interested in atm. Frankly I feel their adverts promoting their 'fibre network' are false advertising designed to con the populace into thinking it's a better service than it actually is. (they hear about the amazing fibre service in the US, Japan and elsewhere that is actually FTTH, then see virgins adverts and think it is the same thing).

Japan has been on top for internet services for over a decade, we will be left behind even longer if FTTH is not invested in.

And forget BT, the government should be looking to services like H2O Networks who do installs at a small fraction of the costs by deploying through the sewers. They're already hooking up Bournmouth and Dundee (see http://www.fibrecity.eu/ )