Cody Taylor

Over the last year, it’s become clear that Google has a bigger war on its hands in mobile than it had anticipated. It’s principal antagonist is sexy Apple iPhone, which has seriously disrupted Google’s ambitions to turn mobile industry into a Web-based …

Clouds are such big Linux news these days that, in the physical world, it would be raining by now. Or at least heavily overcast.

Samsung Electronics Co. announced its highest capacity memory card today with twice the storage of previous cards.

bfire writes “McDonalds has earmarked potential changes to seating plans in some restaurants to prevent free Wi-Fi users from monopolizing seating, particularly in peak periods. The availability of Wi-Fi means people are now spending 35 minutes in McDonalds — rather than the average ten minutes that patrons used to spend eating there. But it appears not everyone is happy with the increased ‘stickiness’ of customers, with some licensees in Australia reporting that Wi-Fi users aren’t turning over seats fast enough. The restaurant chain is considering options including space demarcation to deal with the problem.”

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notthepainter notes the passing of the woman who, as an 11-year-old-girl, named Pluto. “Frozen and lonely, Planet X circled the far reaches of the solar system awaiting discovery and a name. It got one thanks to an 11-year-old British girl named Venetia Burney, an enthusiast of the planets and classical myth. On March 14, 1930, the day newspapers reported that the long-suspected ‘trans-Neptunian body’ had been photographed for the first time, she proposed to her well-connected grandfather that it be named Pluto, after the Roman god of the underworld. Venetia Phair, as she became by marriage, died April 30 in her home in Banstead, in the county of Surrey, England. She was 90. … More vexing to Mrs. Phair was the persistent notion that she had taken the name from the Disney character. ‘It has now been satisfactorily proven that the dog was named after the planet, rather than the other way around,’ she told the BBC. ‘So, one is vindicated.’ ” Venetia’s great-uncle Henry, who was a housemaster at Eton, had successfully proposed that the two dwarf moons of Mars be named Phobos and Deimos.

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A poster on an Chinese Apple site claims to have played with Apple’s next-gen iPhone, and he spills the beans on the specs – More RAM, faster processor, 3.2 Megapixel camera with autofocus and more