Cranking out news for the geeks, music buffs and gossip junkies, my way. -Greg

When the iPhone 4 was released fans of the iPhone everywhere rejoiced!

Quickly the iPhone 4 owners start complaining of yellowish tinting on their phones. Sorry guys we rushed the production, they didn’t get to dry enough, it’ll go away. iPhone fans rejoice! iPhone owners begin to notice that if they hold their iPhone they lose signal or even drop calls. Sorry guys we built an antenna that isn’t functional when you hold the phone in your hand. Just put a nice ‘livestrong’ rubber-band around your $300 iPhone and you’ll be good to go! iPhone 4 fans rejoice! iPhone 4 engineers realize that they have been “using the wrong formula to calculate signal strength all these years”. Sorry guys your iPhone doesn’t drop that much signal when you hold it, it actually just never had that strong of a signal to begin with.

Seriously if some how, some way, your still rejoicing for the iPhone 4, your either Steve Jobs or a complete idiot. iPhone 4 regardless of sales is a complete flop. Looking at the phone from a technical stand point, it’s junk. If you have an electronic device that does not function it becomes, junk. People have spent over 300 hundred of their hard earned dollars for a pretty Apple endorsed paper weight. It’s very simple to understand how Apple is so successful, they only release a single flipping product and spend a trillion dollars on adverstising it. You could sell a turd for a $1000 bucks if you package it right and it was the only one, but it’s still a turd.

Apple is a fruit, and thats all it will ever be. -Greg

So here it is, the big prizefight between Motorola’s Droid and Apple’s iPhone 3GS. I won’t tell you who wins, but I will say that it was very close and looks like they both have some things to work on. so without any more delay, “let’s get ready to rummmmmmmble!” -Greg

Light Peak sounds to me like the next logical step.  Predictions of going to IEEE and becoming a 10-terabit link is insane, not that it can’t be done, but imagine that, it’s very exciting. We could very well be about to travel at light-speed, with our media anyway. -Greg 

September 28, 2009 4:00 AM PDT

by Stephen Shankland

SAN FRANCISCO–You’ve probably heard about fiber optics for years–some kind of exotic technology used to carry gargantuan quantities of data across continents. But in the not-too-distant future, you might be plugging these tiny glass strands straight into your computer.

That’s if Intel gets its way. At its Intel Developer Forum last week, the chipmaker demonstrated fiber-optic technology called Light Peak for connecting many devices to PCs with fiber optic lines. Intel secured major Light Peak endorsement from Sony and now it’s has begun trying to make it into an industry standard.

But bringing optical technology to the masses will require more than Intel Chief Technology Officer Justin Rattner taking the stage to connect a thin white Light Peak cable into the back of a prototype PC. According to sources familiar with the situation, the most likely mechanism to carry Light Peak out of the R&D lab to the edge of your laptop will be the venerable Universal Serial Bus, and Intel has begun pounding the pavement to try to make that happen.

“Now all the pieces are in place,” Rattner said. “We need to get a standard established to turn on the entire ecosystem to Light Peak.”

Even technophobes are familiar with USB. The plug-and-play technology started its journey in PCs and has spread to handsets, consumer electronics devices, digital cameras, and more. And new developments from the group behind the standard, the USB Implementers Forum, could expand adoption more, with a new faster, more power-efficient version and with technology to make it better for charging devices plugged into a computer or power outlet.

 

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