Android, iPhone, BlackBerry: Which OS is best for app development?

Android, iPhone, BlackBerry: Which OS is best for app development?: "

Let's say that you're a software developer who has created a hot new application for smartphones that you're certain is about to take the world by storm. Your work isn't quite done and here's the problem: not only will your brilliant and innovative application have to compete with several other applications that have similar ambitions, but it will have to compete with them over multiple platforms.

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2Go Convertible Classmate PC

2Go Convertible Classmate PC: "The 2Go Convertible Classmate PC convertible netbook targets classrooms, not your home.

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Afghanistan: The Information Is Not Beautiful

Afghanistan: The Information Is Not Beautiful: "

I took a visual look at the casualty figures coming out of the Afghanistan war for The Guardian. It’s part of my effort to understand what’s going on there. It’s not easy reading. But I think it helps to give some context. See what you think.

You can explore the data and sources in this spreadsheet.

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Silverlight 4 Brings Assembly Sharing with .NET

Silverlight 4 Brings Assembly Sharing with .NET: "Assemblies built in Silverlight 2 and 3 are not binary compatible with the .NET Framework, so if you want to share code you need generally need to dual-compile. With Siverlight 4 and .NET 4, you will be able to use some Silverlight-based assemblies from within .NET 4. By Jonathan Allen"

Presentation:Failure: An Illustrated Guide

Presentation:Failure: An Illustrated Guide: "Avi Bryant explains the iterative process that led to the concept, implementation, and UI of Trendly (http://trendly.com/ ), using Smalltalk, Javascript, Ruby and Java in the process. By Avi Bryant"

8.8.8.8, A DNS Number for Faster Browsing

8.8.8.8, A DNS Number for Faster Browsing: "Google is offering two DNS servers for public use, namely 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4, in an attempt to further speed up browsing. By Abel Avram"

Blackwater Founder Erik Prince Revealed As CIA Spy

Blackwater Founder Erik Prince Revealed As CIA Spy: "

Fascinatingly, according to a just-released article from Vanity Fair, Erik Prince, the “Christian-supremacist” founder of Blackwater, worked secretly as a CIA agent from 2004 until two months ago:

The truth about Prince may be orders of magnitude stranger than fiction.

For the past six years, he appears to have led an astonishing double life. Publicly, he has served as Blackwater’s C.E.O. and chairman. Privately, and secretly, he has been helping [the C.I.A.] to craft, fund, and execute operations ranging from inserting personnel into “denied areas”—places U.S. intelligence has trouble penetrating—to assembling hit teams targeting al-Qaeda members.

While his company was busy gleaning more than $1.5 billion in government contracts…Prince, according to sources with knowledge of his activities, has been working as a C.I.A. asset: in a word, as a spy.

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