Certain Habits

Staffers in the British Foreign Office learned the hard way one of the commandments of the digital age: “Write not what you would not like on the front page of this morning’s newspaper.”

In preparation for the Pope’s September visit, staffers wrote a memo proposing activities his Holiness might like to do while in Country. The top ideas?

I’ve seen several links to this video clip from Fast Company’s “Innovation Uncensored” conference. In case you didn’t see it, Nike’s Mark Parker describes the advice he received from Steve Jobs upon becoming CEO:

As reported by the Wall Street Journal today, the countries largest banks appear to have been systematically masking the levels of debt they maintain in their quarterly filings to the SEC.

When are the trials for fraud, you ask? It turns out what they’re doing is completely legal, and may have been standard operating procedure for many years.

Steve Jobs announced yesterday that iPhone OS 4.0 would support multi-tasking. Yeah, I know. It’s long overdue.

He gave some examples. Pandora — the killer app for multi-tasking. And Skype. And in talking about Skype on the iPhone, Jobs said: Read the rest of this entry »

Multi-Tasking

Multi-tasking isn’t revolutionary, but it’s long overdue for the iPhone and will be a nice enhancement. Background location will make third party mapping apps and location-aware social media more effective. Expect the cost of turn-by-turn directions to converge toward zero over the next two years.

Folders will help me keep my pages of apps better organized.

With the announcement of the Apple iPad in February and its launch yesterday, the industry’s copying machines have been busy. Apple competitors are preparing to launch an army of iPad imitators, clones, and ugly step children.

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