From an article posted on The Boy Genius Report March 8th, 2008, developer Robert Balousek made a shocking discovery while researching the iPhone Human Interface Guidelines document available on the SDK site:

"Only one iPhone application can run at a time, and third-party applications never run in the background. This means that when users switch to another application, answer the phone, or check their email, the application they were using quits."

How can Apple consider itself a leader in the mobile phone market when their flagship product denotes multitasking and the integration of third-party productivity tools? I think Apple's "World Domination" scheme should be stopped short with a couple more class action law suits for cleverly disguising their mickey mouse device for a mobile phone.

From Jonathan Schwartz's Weblog: "What would the perfect datacenter look like?"

Improving upon its father, the traditional datacenter, it'd have to be more space and power efficient. Very high performance, and designed for machines, not people with plush offices. It'd have to be available within weeks, not years. And portable, to allow customers to deploy it anywhere - in a disaster area, or next to a hydro generator.

This story was originally posted October 2006. More information can be found on the Sun Microsystems website as well as some interesting pictures on cnet News.

What do /.ers have to say about this portable datacenter in a shipping crate? Is this likely to sell or is it just another desperate attempt to finding a new niche market that doesn't exist? And it makes you wonder - does it also come with an inflatable system administrator? Or are there some systems administrators that are willing to live in this box?

CTV News Reports: A Toronto law firm is launching a class-action suit against the Ontario Lottery Corporation "on behalf of all persons who bought lottery tickets since 1975" but never won.
The amount of the claim is $1.1 billion which includes $100 million in "punitive damages."

This started after a government audit revealed that on average most winners were employed at gas stations, convenience stores, and the like at the time of their winning. Shouldn't lottery employees (including retail vendors) be excluded from buying lottery tickets?