Been running the latest iPhone OS 3.0 for about a week now (all hail the mighty torrent sites!!). Been extremely pleased with it, the following features work totally as advertised.
So, the real deal’s gonna be released today, SGT 01:00 June 18th. iTunes at the ready, everyone. It’s a swell upgrade.
P.S For those who asked… yes tethering is supported on my SingTel line with the mobile broadband add-on. Take note this is on a torrented iPhone OS 3.0 release! Not too sure about the actual one, but it should work just fine.
… and grabbing our money today. Unfunny jokes aside, this new marketing campaign from Intel, “Sponsors of Tomorrow”, just kicked off this week, and I am already absolutely in love with the whole campaign! Check out the following ad, it’s soooo well-done.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqLPHrCQr2I
“For more than 40 years Intel has been delivering tomorrow’s ‘normal,’ and our new marketing campaign is a way for the world to be made aware of this fact,” said Deborah Conrad, Intel vice president and general manager, Corporate Marketing Group. “We’re hoping to convey that we’re not just a microprocessor company, but a move-society-forward-by-quantum-leaps company. “Our image, our brand are far too powerful to just be a microprocessor when, in fact, the greatest strength of the Intel brand will always be what is still to come. What Intel develops today leads the path toward a better tomorrow.” The multi-million-dollar marketing campaign is the largest for Intel since “Multiply,” the September 2006 campaign that supported the then-new Intel Core 2 Duo. “Sponsors of Tomorrow” is expected to have a lifespan of 3 to 5 years, and was created by Venables Bell & Partners in San Francisco. It is the first campaign for Intel by the agency since being awarded Intel’s master brand account in January. “Most of the world knows Intel as a huge, multi-national chipmaker, but the company is much more than that,” said Paul Venables, the agency’s founder and co-creative director. “The more we learned about Intel, the more we realized how narrow our perception had been. This company is forging the future in so many unfathomable ways, and what a shame it is that the general consumer has no idea.”
“For more than 40 years Intel has been delivering tomorrow’s ‘normal,’ and our new marketing campaign is a way for the world to be made aware of this fact,” said Deborah Conrad, Intel vice president and general manager, Corporate Marketing Group. “We’re hoping to convey that we’re not just a microprocessor company, but a move-society-forward-by-quantum-leaps company.
“Our image, our brand are far too powerful to just be a microprocessor when, in fact, the greatest strength of the Intel brand will always be what is still to come. What Intel develops today leads the path toward a better tomorrow.”
The multi-million-dollar marketing campaign is the largest for Intel since “Multiply,” the September 2006 campaign that supported the then-new Intel Core 2 Duo. “Sponsors of Tomorrow” is expected to have a lifespan of 3 to 5 years, and was created by Venables Bell & Partners in San Francisco. It is the first campaign for Intel by the agency since being awarded Intel’s master brand account in January.
“Most of the world knows Intel as a huge, multi-national chipmaker, but the company is much more than that,” said Paul Venables, the agency’s founder and co-creative director. “The more we learned about Intel, the more we realized how narrow our perception had been. This company is forging the future in so many unfathomable ways, and what a shame it is that the general consumer has no idea.”
Very interesting article on the NY Times today with regards to Google’s content access policies and procedures "Google’s Gatekeepers" :
The most powerful and protean of these Internet gatekeepers is, of course, Google. With control of 63 percent of the world’s Internet searches, as well as ownership of YouTube, Google has enormous influence over who can find an audience on the Web around the world. As an acknowledgment of its power, Google has given Nicole Wong a central role in the company’s decision-making process about what controversial user-generated content goes down or stays up on YouTube and other applications owned by Google, including Blogger, the blog site; Picasa, the photo-sharing site; and Orkut, the social networking site. Wong and her colleagues also oversee Google’s search engine: they decide what controversial material does and doesn’t appear on the local search engines that Google maintains in many countries in the world, as well as on Google.com. As a result, Wong and her colleagues arguably have more influence over the contours of online expression than anyone else on the planet.
An insight and statement to Google’s content restriction ethos – "Google refused, arguing that one nation’s government shouldn’t be able to set the limits of speech for Internet users worldwide." :
Wong decided that Google, by using a technique called I.P. blocking, would prevent access to videos that clearly violated Turkish law, but only in Turkey. For a time, her solution seemed to satisfy the Turkish judges, who restored YouTube access. But last June, as part of a campaign against threats to symbols of Turkish secularism, a Turkish prosecutor made a sweeping demand: that Google block access to the offending videos throughout the world, to protect the rights and sensitivities of Turks living outside the country. Google refused, arguing that one nation’s government shouldn’t be able to set the limits of speech for Internet users worldwide. Unmoved, the Turkish government today continues to block access to YouTube in Turkey.
I’m just surprised that this core team of three can handle so much – they are really capable people. Back when I was with a print paper, the editors had a hard time vetting through just news for the region. Google, on the other hand, handles content for the world.
Tried out the new build of Google Chrome today… darn that thing is fast, but I just cannot live without my FF extensions.
So in my quest to make Firefox 3.0 a better browser (oh 3.1, when are you coming out?), here are some tweaks that seems to provide a perceptive improvement in my browsing experience.
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Hrgggh!! Now I'm ANGRY!!
Ever since I started using Vox as my main blogging engine, it has for the most part held up pretty well, and its features are really nifty.
However, there were several instances where Vox would throw a Javascript error in my browser, and I would be unable to compose, edit or view properly the blog. This entry is made by emailing the Vox server – for the past two days I have not been able to compose via the normal means.
Usually, I would take this kind of situation with some measure of calmness, compose my entry on Writeroom or Darkroom, and then head off to bed – and attempt uploading the entry the next day.
Not this time, not this time. I’ve had it with you, Vox, and I am getting my data out and closing my account. I wouldn’t normally do this, blogging is not a large part of my life, but something special today happened – I read this article ["A Call for Revolution Against Beta Culture", Jesus Diaz, Gizmodo].
