iPhone OS 2.0: The New MS-DOS

With Apple’s launch of the new App Store, the iPhone has become a full-fledged mobile computing platform. Much like Bill Gates and Microsoft introduced a new, relatively easy-to-use operating system in the 1980s amidst the many incompatible software platforms that were available, which quickly became the standard in the computing industry, Steve Jobs and Co. [...]

UWB? Gimme a Break!

I’m going to be blunt: Ultra-Wideband (UWB) is going to fail. First of all, just by looking at the increases in WiFi speeds between 802.11b to 802.11g to 802.11n, the math indicates that the next iteration of the extremely popular wireless technology should be at around 1,886 Mbps* by around somewhere from 2013 to 2017**. [...]