Microsoft Promotes Angry Birds for Windows Phone 7
The problem? Rovio Mobile, the company behind Angry Birds, hasn’t committed to a port yet.(I’ll bet five bucks that it’s the same story with that Tap Tap Revenge icon, too.) â
Yankees Sweep Twins, Head to American League Championship Series
Eight more wins for 28. â
Charlie the Chimp Dies at 52 Despite Smoking Habit
The BBC:A chimpanzee famous for smoking cigarettes has died at a South African zoo, aged 52. Charlie the chimp started smoking when some visitors to Mangaung zoo, in Bloemfontein, threw him lit cigarettes. â
Alex King on Buying an Android Phone
He researched, he waited, he ordered, and before his phone even arrived, a more appealing new model was announced.Devil’s advocate perspective: There’s a constant stream of new hardware in the Android world, and Apple is trying to stay a...
NYT Reports iPhone Coming to Verizon
No new details, but they claim an independent source who confirmed the deal. Love the last paragraph, where they acknowledge the WSJ scooped them. â
Carcassonne
My thanks to The Coding Monkeys for sponsoring this week’s DF RSS feed to promote Carcassonne, their award-winning board game for the iPhone and iPod Touch. It’s a tile-based game where you build a medieval landscape, with multi-player sup...
Andy Rubin Talks Android
PC Magazine interview:PC Mag: People have been saying that the freedom of Android has basically meant that the carriers are free to screw the consumers.Rubin: If I were to release an operating system that I claimed was open and that forced ever...
Pogue on Flash on Android
He likes it, with caveats, but admits he didn’t test the effect on battery life. Come on. â
Jim Dalrymple on the Rumors of a 7-Inch iPad
He says Apple has been working on seven-inch models ever since the project began. That doesn’t mean they ever plan to release them, but if they do, it’s not the case that Apple just started working on them, as some analysts have speculated...
‘An Atom-Based Product, Developed in Bits’
Glenn Fleishman, writing for The Economist, on the Glif project’s remarkable success at Kickstarter. ★
Dear Gap, Mike Monteiro Has Your New Logo
Mike Monteiro:You sell good stuff. But never in my experience has any of your employees offered me a free pair of pants because the ones I was wearing looked bad. I wouldn’t expect them to. Their job is to sell me clothes.
My job is to sel...
