With displays like this happening all too frequently on the House floor, there’s really no wonder why Congressional approval ratings (both sides of the aisle, relax) are usually negative. The iPad: Magically killing the U.S. economy! [Business Insider]
Governments in Bahrain, Algeria, Syria, Iran and the Sudan are all free to snoop their citizens’ Hotmail accounts today, as Microsoft has inexplicably disabled HTTPS support for Hotmail users in those countries. More »
Heads up, Hawaii! Three Russian GLONASS satellites just went into the Pacific drink courtesy a failed Proton-M rocket launch in Kazakhstan. Дерьмо! More »
Oops! A massive service outage has apparently bricked older Peek devices. Peek CEO Amol Sarva is on the case though, offering existing customers a free Peek 9 to make up for their lack of email access. Uh, great? More »
Research group SquareTrade recently released the results of a massive mobile phone study. They tracked 15,000 individual handsets over their first year of use, and they found some large discrepancies in reliability. The iPhone malfunction rate sat at a comfortable 5.6%. The Blackberry (in its various incarnations) jumped to 11.9%. But it’s all better than the Palm Treo, which malfunctioned 16.2% of the time within the first year.
