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I might be able to use Hype for a client project to replace a Flash animation. But I need to know what versions of Internet Explorer that Hype animations will work with (most likel…

iPad might enable a paid content model that works. It has a frictionless payment system that handles small transactions. iPhone OS offers more robust interaction capabilities than …

There is no reason that iPad software won't be as sophisticated as current desktop applications like Excel. What makes iPad really interesting to me is that we may be able to inven…

If the skimmers transmitted the stolen data via Bluetooth, wouldn't the receiver have to be within 30 feet? That would seem to make it easy to track down.

If "a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds", where does that leave us ?

If this story was actually about an "error over data on rising sea levels", it would be interesting. It's only a minor factual mistake that is easily checked and corrected. The imp…

Where's the expanded multitouch gesture vocabulary from the FingerWorks technology they acquired? That would have made iPad special. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1041628

Over the weekend, Flurry detected iPhone apps with their analytics embedded running on a device with a tablet-sized screen. That makes it very likely the tablet is running iPhone O…

This article has the first evidence I've seen that the Apple tablet will have a large gesture vocabulary. It will be derived from the FingerWorks technology that Apple acquired in …

Wow, this is great! Worth paying for even though KeePassX is free.

It's not a "toy", it's a "minimum viable product".

Does anyone know if the speech recognition for text fields is done onboard the phone, or uploaded to Google?