面白くなってきた AppleInsider reports that Apple could be using a chipset from a different company--or even an internally developed one--in the next iteration of the MacBook, expected to arrive in the next six or eight weeks. Like other no…

仕事柄，雑誌の掲載された写真を見る機会が多いので，何かの参考になるかと思い購入した書。「メディア・リテラシー」ならぬ「フォト・リテラシー」とは魅力的な言葉だが，残念ながらネーミングに内容が伴っていない。帯にある「写真は真実か？そして，写真…

問題なく面白いノンフィクション。丹念な取材に基づき，500ページ余りにわたって「あほバカ間抜けCIA」を裏付ける事実で埋め尽くしている。なんと言っても衝撃的なのは，イラクとの開戦時に米国があげた理由がことごとく根拠がなかったこと。「カーブボール…

“Apple is Steve Jobs and Steve Jobs is Apple.”という状況は確かなので，Jobsの健康不安は大問題である。以下を読むと，とりあえずは大丈夫と言うことか。 On Thursday afternoon, several hours after I’d gotten my final “Steve’s health is a private …

地方紙は携帯電話で読む時代。用紙の高騰でありえない話ではない。 Verve’ Wireless’s mission is to save the local paper by making it mobile. It provides publishers with the technology to create mobile Web sites, so readers can read the paper o…

SoC の話。ピントがずれている気がする。 For its eight initial SoC offerings, Intel is using a chip for laptop computers called the Pentium M as a foundation. But next year it plans to begin using an ultrasmall microprocessor called Atom, wh…

The most common complaint seems to be poor reception in areas that are known to have a strong 3G signal. AT&T's 3G network is not nearly as pervasive as its EDGE one, but its Web site claims that 3G coverage is available in large cities li…

People who are close to Mr. Jobs say that he had a surgical procedure this year to address a problem that was contributing to a loss of weight. These people declined to be identified because Mr. Jobs had not authorized them to speak about …

One scenario that was not addressed by any of the initial questions from the financial community was that involving a brand-new product. There has been lots of speculation over the past year or so that Apple has a minitablet/UMPC/MID type …