Today i find myself doing some remote blogging from NYC (my hometown). I must say that it is awesome to be back here. There really is no place like it, and while Boston is a pretty ok substitute nothing beats being back home. I have caught up on some emails and have a few things to log after the jump.
First a look at the real G2, HTC's new mobile handset the Dream was announced at the Mobile handset conference. Pretty snazzy but will is snatch the hearts and minds of the tech elite? I hope so, even though I own an iPhone those lazy fockers at apple won't do anything with any expediency unless they have some good competition. HTC is going to be that competition (I say they already are, just not in the states).More news on smart phones as a new one, branded the Bar Of Soap promises to not only switch screen views (from portrait to landscape) with the help of accelerometers but also switch phone modes. Hold the phone like a camera and the camera function pops up, hold it to your face like a phone and a keypad pops up. Considering how sketchy this switch can be on an iPhone, I don't know that I like my phone functions to be tied into orientation but more power to them.
Now on to Wisconsin where they have just suspended a girl for texting during a math class. Now good etiquette says that when in a setting such as a a class room or boardroom texting should be kept to a minimum (unless you're the boss). it's rude and distracting to be sure, but a suspension? Apparently the girl lied about having a phone and tried to hide it in her ass area, so she knew she was guilty and some punishment should be dolled out but the police report I think is a bit much.
More news from the trial against my favorite source of new media, The Pirate Bay. Apparently not only have 50% of the charges been dropped, but the defense lawyers have requested that all other charges be dismissed based on the inability of the prosecution to prove their case. Also because they are so lovable, the 4 owners of the site have gotten an unsolicited following of hackers who are tarnishing the sites of those that are prosecuting the co-owners, the first one in the cross hairs being the IFPI. Serves 'em right, but it is not helping the case of those on trial and incidentally one of the owners, Peter Sunde, has asked that the hackers stop, claiming
"Our case is going quite well as most of you have noticed. In the light of that it feels very bad that people are hacking websites which actually puts us in a worse light than we need to be in"
Sorry Peter...
And for fans of Yelp, the popular user driven food review site, it seems that the admins and reps of the site are getting a little mafioso on that ass. Restaurants owners are claiming that the reps are calling the restaurants soliciting ad purchase agreements and letting the owners know that if they DO buy an add, maybe they (the reps of the site) could take care of some of those negative reviews that the restaurant has received. If this is true is pretty terrible and proves that anything that humans touch that involved money turns to shit. Even the noblest of causes.
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