Day: January 17, 2008

  • Skyhook Wireless, Wardriving, WiGLE and Newspapers

    One of the most interesting facts of the Stevenote was the geolocation cooperation with Skyhook Wireless. Apple uses them in addition to Google in order to complement Google’s cell tower based triangulation with a Wi-Fi based triangulation. Wi-Fi based position is not new and e.g. used by Microsoft in VirtualEarth (AFAIR because of ActiveX only […]

  • SJ destroys hopes for an eBook version of iTouch

    Steve Jobs just destroyed nearly all my hopes for an eBook size version of the iTouch (commenting on amazon’s kindle in an interview with NYT): “It doesn’t matter how good or bad the product is, the fact is that people don’t read anymore,” he said. “Forty percent of the people in the U.S. read one […]