An in-depth look at Apple Pay
http://www.tuaw.com/2014/10/02/apple-pay-an-in-depth-look-at-whats-behind-the-secure-payment/ The more details that comes about how the backend works, the more I believe that many in...
CBS News Twitter Fail
The fail is it’s supposed to be Windows 10. The other fail is they probably got it mixed...
Microsoft Windows 10 Technical Preview
Microsoft announced the next version of the Windows operating system in a small event held in San Francisco...
Mt Ontake Eruption – Nagano
This weekend (September 27 Japan time), Mt Ontake (Japan’s second highest active volcanic peak at 3,067m or 10,062ft)...
Apple finally adds DuckDuckGo to Safari on the desktop
iOS 8 included DuckDuckGo as a default search engine option but until todays Safari 2.1 update, you needed...
Facebook going into the ad competition space with Google
http://recode.net/2014/09/28/facebook-will-facebook-data-to-sell-ads-on-sites-that-arent-facebook/ This doesn’t come as a surprise to me (finally going outside of Facebook after months of rumors)....
Authors protesting Amazon e-books tactics
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/29/business/literary-lions-unite-in-protest-over-amazons-e-book-tactics.html Seriously, we live in bizarro world given the price fixing anti-trust case that ended up going against...
Microsoft plans to open a flagship Fifth Avenue Store in New York
http://online.wsj.com/articles/microsoft-to-open-fifth-avenue-store-1411959661 And once again, they are trying to chase Apple when they really need to be watching out...
I called it – morons bending iPhones and posting it to YouTube
http://bgr.com/2014/09/29/iphone-6-plus-bendgate-video/ The U.K. has similar destruction of property laws that make this a criminal act there. It’s also...
Samsung Galaxy Note 4 pre-orders sell out
http://www.cnet.com/news/samsung-galaxy-note-4-preorders-in-south-korea-sell-out/ That’s the take away from this article. Note these pre-orders were sold out to Korea’s three main...
iPhone 6 Plus Bendgate redux (uncut)
I’m not going to bother to link to the new “uncut” iPhone 6 Plus bending video (meant to...
Consumer Reports durability test
As promised, Consumer Reports performed a series of durability tests with the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus. Turns...