I talked to a few of the kids on her floor. And none of them has an iPhone because they told me: ‘My dad has an iPhone.’ There’s an interesting thing that’s going on in the market. The iPhone becomes a little less cool than it was. They were carrying HTCs. They were carrying Samsungs. They were even carrying some Chinese manufacture’s devices.

Were they even carrying some Chinese manufacture’s devices? I don’t understand: where are other devices made?

Emerging is when you use a platform to come into your own. Merging is when you sacrifice who you are to become part of something else.

A study from the University of Bristol looked at some of the oldest rocks on Earth, demonstrating that gold was delivered by meteorites long after their formation.

Are there journalists who write “objective” facts about events? Yes. Are there bloggers who do the same? Clearly there are. Are there journalists who write opinions about events or news? Yes — and there are plenty of bloggers who do the same. What distinguishes these two groups? Not much, except perhaps the publishing platform they use, or the name on the masthead of the entity they work for.

via No, licensing journalists isn’t the answer — Tech News and Analysis.

Apple has been exploring how to use solar power to charge gadgets for some time, including looking into ways to embed solar cells in devices.

via How Apple could revolutionize solar — Cleantech News and Analysis.

What made the Internet, and thus the Web, possible – the thing that, without which, Tim Berners-Lee would still be watching reruns of “Eastenders” – was a decision. The major carriers of electronic mail, whose business it had become to route messages to each other’s members, collectively reached a truce. They decided that the long, endless fight over who has the biggest volume, the longest distance, the fastest network, so that one could charge the others more postage than it was being charged, was too expensive and was stifling progress. They decided to call off the war.

Unfortunately, it’s not what’s happening now:

Yet rather than decide it’ll all come out in the wash, each player tries to amass more intellectual property than another, driving up the value of their patents. Google buys Motorola because it couldn’t buy Nortel, and someone may yet buy InterDigital, maybe to keep it away from Qualcomm, etc. The objective of this game is for one player to be paid the most penance and crowned king – an endgame that never comes.

via Coudal.