• How does NASA manage to lose the tapes of the first voyage to the moon?
  • Amazon goes back and intends to replace the broken Kindles.
  • Symbian and Palm both bring out new SDKs for all you developers.
  • Facebook privacy sucks says Canada.
  • Microsoft shuts down Popfly mash-up tool. I rant about this.
  • Sun shareholders say yes to Oracle.
  • PC sales slide more.
  • Sony-Ericsson and Nokia both slide.
  • This week’s shows brought to you by Squarepace.com — code word: TECH for discount. And visit Avis.com/tech5 for car deals.

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  1. Amsterdamned says:

    Symbian? Ha ha, who cares. I’ll never write code for a phone that hardly anyone owns.

    I downloaded the Microsoft embedded Visual C++ development system for free, then got the free registration code from Tech Republic and right away I’m coding C++ apps for my 200 MHz Windows Mobile based CECT M88 phone, a phone that cost me only $230 and is a quadband unlocked GSM phone so I can use it anywhere on the planet.

    I refer to this:
    http://miphone.tk

    PS: What the RIAA practices is correctly referred to as “corporate terrorism”.

  2. Mustardtits the blind harp blower says:

    John your “squarespace” link in this article is broke it is just missing the second s “squarepace”
    cheers

  3. qb says:

    Got the Palm SDK and got started. The emulator runs under the VirtualBox VM. The dev environment is either command line and editor or through Eclipse. Therefore everything runs on Linux, Mac, or Windows. Very smart.

    So far everything seems pretty straightforward. Of course, there are no Pre’s in Canada so all this is moot. 😉

  4. moss says:

    They didn’t lose the tape. It was worse. They did what everyone did once or twice – they accidentally recorded over it.

  5. qb says:

    Hmmmm. Office 2010 Online is all Javascript. Not one little hint of Silverlight anywhere. In fact MS is bundling JQuery into asp.net.

    Must snicker to myself and savour a scotch.

  6. dusanmal says:

    NASA: #4 you really believe that?… The only rational explanation is not in the realm of insane mistakes or conspiracy theories: No official organization quickly claimed the tapes for whatever bureaucratic reason (possible) -> some private individual took home the treasure (in that era completely possible). NASA doesn’t know what really happened (read detailed report, they are just guessing that the tapes were recorded over, no hard evidence).

  7. brendal says:

    John – all you had to do was ask – my Dad worked on the Apollo mission – off to email mom right now.

  8. OmegaMan says:

    I was given access to Popfly two years back.

    Supposedly one could mash up sites and webservices. I couldn’t mash up an external webservice and frankly found it to be a sandbox to highschool-esque development/techy people to be a different facebook. (IMHO)

    Short story, Logged in a few times two years ago and never looked back.

  9. deowll says:

    If the Russians think we went to the moon you can be sure we went to the bloody moon.

    Besides Apollo left a laser target which people on Earth have been bouncing laser off of for decades to measure small changes in the lunar orbit.

    If it wasn’t there I kind of think people would notice.

    With all the real conspiracies, scams, and out right cons out there it amazes me that Adam has go for the crap ones.


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