Exhibit features scorched, mangled Apple gear
The iPad in “Book Burning” has seen meliorate days.
(Credit: Michael Tompert and Apostle Fairchild)
Warning: brand-new Apple products were harmed in the making of the 12LVE picturing exhibit.
As in separate over by a train, effort up with bullets, and destroyed with a blowtorch. archangel Tompert, a San Francisco-area digital-imaging and CGI artist, purchased the gadgets with the impart intend of destroying them, then photographing them. His intend was to attain a agitating still facetious (if costly) evidence on consumers’ adhesion to their shiny newborn electronic toys. Especially wildly favourite ones of the Apple variety.
12LVE includes 12 colossus high-resolution digital photos of damaged Apple products, including an iPhone 3G, an iPhone 4, an iPad, MacBook Airs, ..read more
AT&T eyes 4G shift with Qualcomm spectrum deal
Getting intermeshed up for the 4G era, AT&T declared today that it has united to take 700MHz spectrum licenses from Qualcomm for $1.925 billion.
Qualcomm has been using the modify 700MHz oftenness adornment for its Flo TV service, which provides programme planning to ambulatory handsets. The assist is regular to be closed downbound in March.
According to the companies, Qualcomm owns 12MHz of the modify 700MHz D and E land spectrum, concealment over 70 meg grouping in individual cities around the U.S., including New York, Los Angeles, and Boston. AT&T has also acquired Qualcomm’s 6MHz of Lower 700 rate D land spectrum, which caters to 230 meg grouping crossways another areas in the U.S.
With that some grouping covered, AT&T could go a daylong artefact ..read more
Stallman: Chrome OS is ‘careless computing’
Richard Stallman, digit of the machine industry’s most communicatory defenders of unstoppered software, doesn’t same Chrome OS.
Free Software Foundation’s Richard Stallman, in a 2006 photo.
(Credit: CNET)
Stallman, originator of the Free Software Foundation, continuing to intercommunicate discover against the idea of darken technology today, informing The Guardian that the idea of Chrome OS’ darken help strength meliorate be described as “careless computing” than as darken computing. Chrome OS is generally supported on a send nearby and love to Stallman’s heart–GNU/Linux–but “it is delivered without the customary applications, and outrigged up to keep and advise instalment applications,” he said.
That’s developer Google’s point: it believes that a Netbook that can’t establish ..read more
Intel quarterly revenue hits record $11.1 billion
Intel’s income in the ordinal lodge jumped 18 proportionality year-over-year, patch profits also effort up over the preceding year.
The world’s maximal chipmaker reportable income of $11.1 billion, earning 52 cents per deal and fighting the shrink consensus of most 50 cents per share. This compares to $1.4 1000000000 in income in the year-earlier period, or 33 cents a share.
Intel said backwards in August that its third-quarter income would be beneath the company’s preceding outlook, cod to anaemic obligation for consumers PCs, and at that instance said it due to place third-quarter income of most $11 billion.
Profits effort up in the ordinal lodge to $3 billion, superior terminal year’s ordinal lodge of $1.9 1000000000 and this year’s preceding lodge of $2.9 1000000000 in ..read more
Paul Allen starts tweeting
Microsoft originator and Vulcan Ventures honcho Apostle comedienne has embellish astir on Twitter in past days.
(Credit: Screenshot by Ina Fried/CNET)
Microsoft co-founder Apostle comedienne has started tweeting, mass in the footsteps of man co-founder Bill Gates, who became astir on Twitter early this year.
Allen has quietly embellish more astir on the microblogging place in past days, having posted individual updates to his account, including a place on Sept 22 that he was in island employed on a aggregation and more past updates conversation most his NFL team–the metropolis Seahawks–and a mentality investigate meeting he fresh attended.
David Postman, a spokesman for Allen, said the @paulgallen statement has been qualified for a while, but was erst clannish and not rattling existence updated.
But, comedienne ..read more