OK, Now finally an Apple iPhone
Sweet, glorious specs of the 11.6 millimeter device include a 3.5-inch 480 x 320 touchscreen display with multi-touch support and a proximity sensor to turn off the sensor when it's close to your face, 2 megapixel cam, 4GB or 8 GB of storage, Bluetooth with EDR and A2DP, WiFi that automatically engages when in range, and quadband GSM radio with EDGE. Perhaps most amazingly, though, it somehow runs OS X with support for Widgets, Google Maps, and Safari, and iTunes (of course) with CoverFlow out of the gate. A partnership with Yahoo will allow all iPhone customers to hook up with free push IMAP email. Apple quotes 5 hours of battery life for talk or video, with a full 16 hours in music mode -- no word on standby time yet. In a twisted way, this is one rumor mill we're almost sad to see grind to a halt; after all, when is the next time we're going to have an opportunity to run this picture? The 4GB iPhone will go out the door in the US as a Cingular exclusive for $499 on a two-year contract, 8GB for $599. Ships Stateside in June, Europe in fourth quarter, Asia in 2008. Engadget
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Macworld Keynote 2007
Full Mac OS X in the palm of your hand!! Seamless WiFi with full Safari and quick access widgets. This is a game changer and the best next target for innovation. Music, TV, Movies, Email, RSS, Google, Maps, Yahoo, Amazon all in my pocket.
Amazon.mil?
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In an interesting short piece at Federal Computing Week, reporter Bob Brewin looks at Amazon.mil? and how the Department of Defense might utilize web service APIs like those from Amazon, Google and others.
In a recent test, the Defense Information Systems Agency [DISA] compared the cost of developing a simple application called the Tech Early Bird on $30,000 worth of in-house servers and software with the costs of developing the same application using the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud from Amazon.com’s Web Services. Amazon charged 10 cents a minute for the service, and DISA paid a total of $5 to develop an application that matched the performance of the in-house application.
The test is an example of how DISA has been borrowing ideas from Amazon and other Web-based companies and sites, including Yahoo, Google and Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia. ‘There may well be a commercial analog for everything we want to do,’ said Dave Mihelcic, DISA’s chief technology officer.
<p>Easier said than done of course given the DOD’s need for security and renowned bureaucratic, waterfall model for acquiring and developing software. And it isn’t that those agencies are not aware of the issues. In a speech last month at the U.S. DISA Industry Day, the agency’s Air Force Lt. Gen. Charles Croom advocated a web service approach noting that ‘Information is America’s greatest weapons system, but processes we have created are holding us back.’ (See also the recent New York Times Magazine story by Clive Thompson <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/03/magazine/03intelligence.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin">‘Open-Source Spying’</a>.)</p>
Of the 1325 mashups listed here, none end in .mil. Yet.
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