Operation Gadget
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Apple and NCPPR: Talking Past Each Other
Reading Time: 3 minutesAt the Apple Inc. Annual Meeting, The National Center for Public Policy Research offered a shareholder resolution (see Proposal Number 9 in the Apple Inc. Proxy Statement, which I include at the end of this post), which pointed out that Apple’s adherence to “sustainability practices” were not in the overall interests of…
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Photographing NFL Football in Blizzard Conditions
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI have to point out the article by photographer Kyle Grantham of The News Journal of Delaware called Lions and Eagles and Snow, Oh My! In it he talks about the “hardest football game I’ve ever been asked to shoot… {that was} the most fun I’ve ever had on an assignment.”…
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Anonymous iOS 7 ‘UX Critique’ Hits a Number of Valid Issues
Reading Time: < 1 minuteKudos to John Gruber for pointing out this anonymous critique of iOS 7 user experience issues that was published on Tumblr. The important thing to note about this Tumblr blog is that the issues identified here have been posted periodically since September 24: FaceTime Recents in a dark room Semi-transparent layering…
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U.S. Federal Trade Commission Sanctions Maker of an Extremely Popular Flashlight App for Android
Reading Time: < 1 minuteFast Company reports that an Android app called “Brightest Flashlight Free” has been found to collect location information and device identifiers for the phones on which the app is running, even if the user opted out of collection of that information. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission alleges in their press release…
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USB Type-C: Just Like A Lightning Cable– Only Cheaper, Designed By Committee, And Available 3 Years From Now
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe BBC reported that the USB Promoter Group announced that future USB cable interfaces will be smaller and reversible, so as to better compete with the Apple Lightning cable that is already reversible and smaller than USB 3.0. The new interface to be called “USB Type-C” will not be a completed…
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KitKat Release of Android Available on Only 1.1 Percent of Active Android Devices One Month After Its Release
Reading Time: 2 minutesEngadget reports that the KitKat version of Android, also known as Android 4.4 is only available on 1.1% of active Android devices, according to the Android Platform Versions Developer Dashboard. There are two aspect of this statistic that are interesting: The Chikita advertising network estimated that iOS 7 was available on 51%…
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Princeton Gets Half-Ironman Triathlon in September 2014
Reading Time: < 1 minuteMy buddy Mike Buteau from Bloomberg reports that World Triathlon Corporation announced that there will be a half-Ironman triathlon at Mercer County Park in West Windsor which will take place next September 21st. According to the article, this will be the first New York Metro Area Ironman-branded event since the New…
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What Benefits Does Apple Get from Acquiring Topsy?
Reading Time: < 1 minuteEarlier today Apple acquired Topsy Labs, a company primarily known for offering search and data analysis tools that work with the Twitter data stream since 2006. Most analysts believe that it isn’t immediately clear how Apple will use Topsy’s know how, or its access to the Twitter firehose. Here are my…