Yostivanich

“Apple has sunk a full posi­tion in the US com­puter mar­ket dur­ing the spring, accord­ing to early esti­mates by IDC. The Mac pro­ducer is expected to have dropped from fourth place in the win­ter to fifth in the spring as it should have shipped 12.4 per­cent fewer com­put­ers than it did a year ear­lier, falling to 1.21 mil­lion Macs. Its mar­ket share is poised to remain the same at 7.6 per­cent but will have been eclipsed by Toshiba, which could jump over a full per­cent­age point to ship 7.7 per­cent of PCs in the US.”

“Apple is poised to open the iPhone 3G to Orange and T-Mobile in a bid to boost sales. The move is set for as early as Sep­tem­ber and will end Apple’s two year exclu­sive deal with O2. Cru­cially, the man­u­fac­turer will con­tinue to give O2 exclu­siv­ity for the new, faster 3GS ver­sion, but will grant dis­tri­b­u­tion of the older 3G hand­set to another net­work.” What will hap­pen here in the US.

“Reports are com­ing in that Apple’s lat­est update to its iTunes soft­ware has locked out Palm’s Pre.” An unsup­ported com­pet­ing device is now locked out, makes sense.

“Amer­i­can troops are not to be banned from smok­ing in war zones, the US Defence Depart­ment says. The deci­sion comes despite a recent study which rec­om­mended the US mil­i­tary should be tobacco-free. Pen­ta­gon spokesman, Geoff Mor­rell, said US troops were already mak­ing enough sac­ri­fices in Iraq and Afghanistan. He said Robert Gates, the US defence sec­re­tary, did not want to add to the stress of the troops by tak­ing away their right to smoke. But Mr Mor­rell said the Pen­ta­gon would exam­ine the recent study to see what else could be done to move towards ban­ning tobacco in the military.”

” One inter­est­ing pos­si­bil­ity: Face­book is work­ing on a new, more native Twit­ter inte­gra­tion that would let users pub­lish updates to Twit­ter auto­mat­i­cally from Face­book. If that is indeed the case, it would be an inter­est­ing move by Face­book. Allow­ing users to more eas­ily link their Face­book updates with other ser­vices like Twit­ter could poten­tially make Face­book one of the largest Twit­ter appli­ca­tions. If only a few mil­lion Face­book users were to pub­lish their sta­tus updates to Twit­ter, Face­book could become the largest source of tweets — an inter­est­ing inver­sion of the way Twit­ter is used as a Face­book appli­ca­tion by many users today.” This would be really cool.

Deal­ing with appro­pri­ate­ness of children’s dress.

“In an emer­gency meet­ing held two days before the par­ties were due to appear in court — and after the Jus­tice Depart­ment filed a brief sup­port­ing the plain­tiffs Tues­day — the board of the Florida High School Ath­letic Asso­ci­a­tion voted unan­i­mously to revert to its orig­i­nal pol­icy that per­mit­ted more robust sched­ul­ing. Indi­vid­ual school dis­tricts will still be able to decide whether to limit their games.”

“The microblog­ging ser­vice Twit­ter is tak­ing legal advice after hun­dreds of doc­u­ments were hacked into and pub­lished by a num­ber of blogs. TechCrunch has made pub­lic some of the 310 bits of mate­r­ial it was sent. It posted infor­ma­tion about Twitter’s finan­cial pro­jec­tions and prod­ucts.” Fun stuff.

“We have just started using a new com­pres­sion algo­rithm called Cour­gette to make Google Chrome updates small.” Essen­tially 10 times smaller than one of the old dif­fer­ence gen­er­a­tors out there.

Sing it.

A pretty inter­est­ing way to search, key­board driven.