From Neven Mrgan on Twitter:

If AT&T sold T-shirts, they’d cost $9.95 a month.

John Nack on Adobe’s attempts to sabotage HTML 5:

Bullshit

Adobe representative Larry Masinter:

No part of HTML5 is, or was ever, “blocked” in the W3C HTML Working Group—not HTML5, not Canvas 2D Graphics, not Microdata, not Video—not by me, not by Adobe. Neither Adobe nor I oppose, are fighting, are trying to stop, slow down, hinder, oppose, or harm HTML5, Canvas 2D Graphics, Microdata, video in HTML, or any of the other significant features in HTML5. Claims otherwise are false. Any other disclaimers needed?

Uh, yes.

Let your actions speak louder than your words. Adobe products are proprietary, slow, bloated, buggy, and expensive (can you say Flash?). Adobe as a company is self serving to the detriment of official standards and customers. Adobe’s products attempt to circumvent both Windows and Mac user interface standards with a proprietary UI design, again, to the detriment of customers.

I will not believe what Adobe’s representatives say while the company’s actions are so obviously corrupt.

Got a beef with City Hall? Specifically, Boston’s City Hall? Grab your iPhone. There might be an app for that. Soon. Michael Levenson in The Boston Globe:

City officials will soon debut Boston’s first official iPhone application, which will allow residents to snap photos of neighborhood nuisances - nasty potholes, graffiti-stained walls, blown street lights - and e-mail them to City Hall to be fixed.

The bureaucratic black hole goes digital.

I love my iPhone and take it with me constantly, but if you think a smart phone is a full on substitute for a Mac (or Windows) notebook, think again. John R. Quain of Fox News tried an iPhone, a Palm Pre, and an Android G1 to see if they could replace a laptop (John, they’ve been called ‘notebooks’ for many years). His troubles are common:

In the end, I only managed to make it 4 days with the smartphones before I gave on my digital expedition and returned to my laptop. Certainly, if all you need to do is send e-mail and occasionally surf the Web, the latest crop of souped-up cell phones can get you pretty far. But for some tasks — such as finishing this article — only a full-fledged notebook will do.

The laws of physics play into this, too. Try writing a lengthy article on any smart phone keyboard. Ouch.

China’s Foxconn makes Apple’s iPhone. News reports say a worker committed suicide after a new generation iPhone prototype in his care went missing. Some reports say the worker was tortured. John Gruber of Daring Fireball:

Even if the missing prototype was stolen, not lost (and let’s not be naive about how unlikely it would be for someone to lose, Uncle Billy-style, a secret Apple prototype when it’s clear that Foxconn doesn’t exactly chalk such losses up with an “oh, well”), torture is evil. Apple needs to investigate this, publish the results, and if the man was truly tortured, sever ties with Foxconn.

Which would benefit whom? Did John sever ties with the U.S. government when it tortured prisoners?