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Recent Posts

• It goes both ways: The proposed Type-C USB plug will (finally) be reversible
• “Kitan Club”: Weird cat-shaped mobile phone stands from (surprise, surprise) Japan
• BlackBerry’s open letter targets enterprise decision-makers: A Monty Pythonesque “We are very much alive, thank you”
• Desert island smartphone
• Patrick Stewart has only one rule for using Twitter
• iOS Developer Roundup: New edition of The iOS Apprentice, Validated text fields, Typhoon dependency injection framework, and lots of algos in Obj-C
• Don’t laugh. A lot of software is patched in pretty much the same way.
• 37signals’ comeback to that onerous Office 365 “#GetItDone” infographic
• The saddest infographic in the land
• U.S. telcos don’t want your phone to have a theft-preventing “kill switch” because it cuts into their insurance business
• Samsung Galaxy Gear: A “small green tomato” that sold 50,000 or 800,000 units, depending on whom you ask
• Where I was, two Thursdays ago
• IT “soft skills” in action
• Let’s hope this is one of the organizational changes at Microsoft
• The WSJ on Steve Ballmer’s decision to leave Microsoft