Monday, July 12th, 2010
Danny Pier, a 25 year-old software developer, has started the Astdroid project over at Kickstarter.com, where he needed help to send his HTC Evo 4G in space. Why? Because he simply wants to show that anyone can send a phone into space. Well, at least anyone with an extra smartphone, a weather balloon, the resources, and the time to set it all up and pull it off.
Sunday, July 11th, 2010
Interesting tech-related stuff you might have missed the past week:
More Apple vs Droid points:
- YouTube: This iPhone4 vs HTC Evo video now has over 4 million views since the iPhone 4 launch (Spoiler: one of them dies at the end). Be warned: lots of text-to-speech profanity ahead. Not something you’d want to show the kids.
- Barrons: This telecom analyst thinks “it’s just a matter of time” before Google’s Android eats Apple’s lunch.
- Louis Gray can see it coming and jumps ship from iPhone to Android: “A bet on iPhone 4 today may be a vote for the best phone of today. But a bet on Android is a bet on the future.”
- Scobleizer agrees (kind of), but still can’t kick his iPhone habit.
Around the net:
- MediaPost: When ghostbusters sue other ghostbusters then drag MySpace into it, we all lose. The ghosts are probably happy about it though.
- Orange County Register: A 25-year-old gets a year in jail for sending hundreds of threatening text messages – to herself.
- CNET: Facebook isn’t overly fond of nipples.
