The Inside Story Of Tech's Hottest Startup

Here’s that rare Steve Jobs story that has never been told, about the company that got away.

Jobs had been tracking a young software developer named Drew Houston, who blasted his way onto Apple’s radar screen when he reverse-engineered Apple’s file system so that his startup’s logo, an unfolding box, appeared elegantly tucked inside. Not even an Apple SWAT team had been able to do that.





That company is Dropbox. You can read the full post at Forbes.

Video: When Apple’s Siri Kills People.

If Apple’s hands-free assistant Siri one day turned against the human race and transformed into a freakishly evil killing machine, well, that would really, really suck. However improbable, that hypothetical situation is exactly the fodder Rooster Teeth Productions used to create the “Siri: The Holiday Horror Movie (Trailer)” clip below.

The clever spoof shows Siri taunting, attacking and killing a group of friends who all received the iPhone 4S for Christmas. At one point — in its familiar female voice — Siri quips, “Life has no meaning. It’s true, you’re alive and then you die, you die, you die, die, die, die … ” After that, all hell breaks loose.

Hilarious, but come to think of it...

Apple Says There’s $2.7 Billion at Stake in German Motorola Mobility Suit

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If a German court should rule that Apple violates Motorola Mobility’s patent on synchronizing email accounts, the company says its stands to lose a lot of money — money that Motorola would then be on the hook for, should the injunction later be overturned.

Report: Macs now have 5% of global market share

According to AllThingsD

Apple has finally made it past the PC market’s “magic 5 percent mark.”

Learn iPhone/iPad Application Development for free courtesy of Stanford University

If you are interested in learning iOS app development, the instructors at Stanford University are offering a course in iOS 5 focused on iPhone Application Development. The course is offered for free and you can take the course without actually being a student of Stanford. The course is available on iTunes U.


Throughout the course, students will develop several iPhone and iPad apps that help automate tasks in their day-to-day life including games and social networking apps.

Before taking the iPhone Application Development class there are two prerequisites you must complete, Programming Methodology and Programming Abstractions, which are also available on iTunes.

It's worth checking out if you are interested in developing iOS apps.

Nokia N95 8GB outguns Apple iPhone 3G

Nokia has done it again with their N95 8GB outgunning the soon to be out (July 11th) Apple iPhone 3G. Though similarly capable, the iPhone was found to be less capable though it stood head-to-head with the N95 8GB, but N95 nevertheless came out victorious. Don't get me wrong, the iPhone is very high-tech but has more limitations than N95. (Should soon pickup one.) Some of the restrictive features of iPhone 3G are:

• non-removable battery, 1400mAh, replacement is via sending away to Apple
• Very limited RAM (N95 has around 90MB of RAM after booting)
• Limited multitasking (all apps can be runat once,if necessary;but I don't see why I'd want to do this)
• No Flash support
• No option for Bluetooth keyboard, at present
• 2MP camera- no flash, no recording,fixed focus (N95 has a 5MP camera with professional lens)
• In use, requires two hands to use most of the time, proving a little restrictive
• No MMS support (Emailed photos are all downsampled to VGA)
  

Though it sure has some features that you can't find on N95,like:

• Pouched/cased by necessity, to protect the touch-screen from damage.(N95's camera is not mechanically protected and picks up small day-to-day scratches which slightly impact photo quality)
• Better form factor
  

and some other ones, but the N95 still outshines it, but lets give it to Apple to have been able come-up with a device that can stand head-to-head with one of the highest-tech devices from a phone leader (Nokia). Come to think of it, this is Apple's first time coming up with a mobile phone. What Apple has always been known for is their excellent sense of aesthetics - I hope we all agree?

You can get to read the full comparison by Steve Litchfield here