Apple Inc appears to be deliberately distorting the issues surrounding the iPhone 4’s antenna design by asserting that Research In Motion’s BlackBerry has similar reception problems, RIM said.
This column is written by Kimberly Turner from Regator (a great tool that gathers and organizes the world’s best blog posts). – Darren
A Guest Post by Johnny B Truant.
I know what you’re thinking. You’re blogging to make money, or to express yourself. So why would you ever give something away? If you’re in this as a business, giving stuff away without charging for it seems counterintuitive. If you’re just out there writing for the sake of writing, then what you want are readers… and how is giving stuff away going to get more eyes on your blog?
Just over a week ago I had the crazy idea to run a training day for bloggers while Chris Garrett was in Melbourne. It was a spur of the moment idea and as a result something that I thought would be quite small, informal and relaxed.
The great thing about the Internet is that it has been able to demolish all sorts of barriers and boundaries for all sorts of people. John grew up in the poorest postal code in Canada, for example, but he now resides in the one of the richest.
Pete Cashmore founded Mashable in 2005 as a one writer blog. Today, Mashable employs more than 30 people and is one of the biggest and most profitable blogs in the world. Mashable’s numbers are simply staggering. Over 10 million readers per month, over 2 million followers on Twitter and 230,000 fans on Facebook, plus millions in revenues. Mashable is a perfect example on the growth potential of blogging. And guess what? He did it with a blog that doesn’t talk about making money online!
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Pollution from a mine owned by a top gold producer has severely contaminated a river in southeastern China, leading to a massive fish kill. Read How Water Gets Polluted.
The latest BlackBerry finger-friendly OS 6.0 … it’s like the same… only a bit different.
BlackBerry 6 is the latest operating system from RIM which promises to offer many new features to bring BlackBerry well and truly into the touchscreen world.
RIM released a little more information this week on the OS which it hopes will entice non-BlackBerry users to its handset range for the first time, pointing to a consumer-friendly interface that’s accessible to both business and everyday users.
Here’s a selection of what’s to come…
A new round of Microsoft layoffs is, indeed, happening on July 7, as long-rumored and expected. According to various online comments — all anonymous from those infamous “people knowledgeable about the situation” — the latest round is going to be less gruesome and more broadly spread than last year’s two waves of cuts that totaled more than 5,000 people.
