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Apple seems to be getting a lot of negative press on its recent SDK announcement. Much of the criticism seems to focus around two issues: That not all functionality of the phone is accessable via the SDK, and that Apple controls the distribution method to the phone. I’ll adress the second point first. Some perspective on the history of apps on cell phones will do a lot to put this in perspective, and see why these decisions were made as tradeoffs, and actually strengthen the position of the iPhone as a leader in custom applications.

Chrome Walker has a post on some of the new phones coming out in Europe for 2008. One of the trends that seems to be emerging is the “real web.” This was kicked off by Apple with the iPhone, and its the idea that you can view the Internet on your cell phone with a reasonable interface. In other words, its formatted the same way as it would be on your computer.

Is this the future of cell phone applications? Read on …

About a month ago, I started using Mozy, an online backup service which was endorsed by several respectable publications, including the Wall Street Journal. I immediately ran into problems. After posting about those on my blog, Mozy representatives contacted me and helped to resolve them. Please read that previous post for a background on my experiences with Mozy so far. The current question is, however, now that all those issues have been resolved, how has Mozy been over the past 45 days?

The answer, unfortunately, is not good. Read on for more

When it comes to my personal computer, I believe in making as many copies of my data as I can, as often as I can.

Mozy is a little program that runs in the background and backs up your files every now and then to their servers. If you need to restore a file, you can do it through their web site or else through the program you download. However, not is all rosy with Mozy.

Read on.

My wife is looking to buy a car. She is 30 years old. She likes iTunes and reads her news online instead of a newspaper. She is concerned about global warming, and about the war on terror. We’re about to have kids, which brings those concerns to the forefront. So, when we started looking around for a car, we remembered all those cool next-generation automobiles we’ve been bombarded with at auto shows and the news. And we were surprised to find that we could hardly find any.

Read on for the current state of future cars.

All services have been moved to the new server, and everything has been running well for the past few days. All systems go.