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An Experiment In BlackBerry Development 207

Posted by kdawson on Monday June 22, 2009 @09:03PM from the berry-casting dept.

ballwall writes "We've all read the stories about how lucrative selling apps on the iPhone can be (or not), but what about other platforms? BlackBerry accounts for twice as many handsets shipped as Apple, according to Gartner, so I decided to find out. I wrote about my experiences developing my first BlackBerry application including sales, platform issues, and a bunch of other things I thought new mobile developers might want to know about."

Protecting the Apollo Landing Sites From Later Landings 339

Posted by timothy on Friday June 05, 2009 @02:46AM from the everyone-must-have-a-hobby dept.

R3d M3rcury writes "The Lunar X-Prize is a contest offering $20 million to the first private organization to land and maneuver a robotic rover on the moon. There is also a $1 million bonus to anyone who can get a picture of a man-made object on the moon. But one archeologist believes that 'The sites of early lunar landings are of unparalleled significance in the history of humanity, and extraordinary caution should be taken to protect them.' He's concerned that we may end up with rover tracks destroying historic artifacts, such as Neil Armstrong's first bootprint, or that a mistake could send a rocket slamming into a landing site. He calls on the organizers to ban any contestant from landing within 100KM of a prior moon landing site. Now he seems to think this just means Apollo. What about the Luna and Surveyor landers? What about the Lunokhod rovers? Are they fair game?"

Facebook Nudity Policy Draws Nursing Moms' Ire 904

Posted by timothy on Thursday January 01, 2009 @05:16PM from the isn't-breastfeeding-for-the-children-too? dept.

HSRD writes "Web-savvy moms who breast-feed are irate that social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace restrict photos of nursing babies. The disputes reveal how the sites' community policing techniques sometimes struggle to keep up with the booming number and diversity of their members."

Comment Re:Tell them this (Score 1) 404

by jerrold on Friday May 09, 2008 @08:56PM (#23357352) Attached to: London Lawyers Demand £600 For One Game

If you could replicate any given item of value a la Star Trek, the basic assumption that all Western economies are built on (there exist products that are not plentiful in nature, and value can be created by making these products available in exchange for other products which are not plentiful in nature, viz. cash) would evaporate overnight.

I think they'll still exist products "which are not plentiful in nature" if replicators are ever invented.

From my understanding anyway, a replicator won't be able to create things out of thin air, but will requires raw materials to put together the new (replicated) object (not plentiful in nature). Also it'll also require power to run while replicating (another non-plentiful thing in nature)

How Steve Jobs Got Green Overnight 194

Posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday September 30, 2006 @11:23AM from the change-in-plans dept.

Francois writes "At Apple's last special event, Steve Jobs insisted on how environment friendly Apple's new iPod packagings are supposed to be. I don't think he's ever gone that route before. 'We've got some new packagings for the new Nano as well. And it's 52% less volume. This turns out to be an environmentally great thing. Because it dramatically reduces the amount of fossil fuels we have to spend to move these things around the planet.' Not only is it obvious they shrank the packaging to reduce the cost of shipping around the planet and sell lower than the Zune, but furthermore: there's a reason why he insisted that much, and it's not so very nice."

iPod Car Integration Reality Check at Apple Expo 176

Posted by timothy on Monday September 25, 2006 @04:22PM from the how-can-a-jumprope-be-hi-fi? dept.

An anonymous reader writes "At the last Apple special event, Steve Jobs was almost bragging about the fact that 70% of new cars sold in the U.S. this year had (optional!) iPod 'integration' available ... Obviously, he didn't talk about the rest of the world. But most of all, what Steve didn't tell us is how crappy the existing "integration" solutions actually are! Here is a review of actual iPod car integration solutions showcased Apple Expo 2006 Paris. Some of the nicest cars (like the Audi TT for example) don't necessarily have the best iPod interfaces."

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