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...Flash, and the only browser it runs is Safari. Like the iPhone, it can't multitask, and it doesn't appear to have a serious file-handling system. I've tried its much ballyhooed full-size virtual keyboard, and it feels like typing with frostbite. It doesn't even have a damn camera. But you will care about it, because whoever designed its graceful lines and intuitive interface cared about you. (See a roundup of iPad reviews at Techland.com...
...Nobody - not even Jobs, by his own admission - is sure what consumers will use the iPad for, but I'm guessing it will be the first true home computer. Conventional PCs live in studies; laptops make brief, furtive forays into the living room. The iPad will become the first whole-house computer, shared among an entire family, passed from hand to hand, roaming freely from living room to kitchen to bedroom to - look, it's going to happen - bathroom, at ease everywhere, tethered to nothing. It's not a revolution, but it's a real change, the kind of change...
...Then there's games. Many will see the iPad chiefly as a gaming platform. Michel Guillemot - founder of Gameloft, one of the most successful developers for the iPhone - is even more passionate about the iPad than Makinson and Futhey are. "I see this as the fourth step of the games evolution," he told me. "First the microcomputer, then the dedicated console, next the smart phone and now the iPad. What do you think?" "I'll let you know," I say, "when I've actually played with...
...from July 1, 2008, to Sept. 30, 2009, "substantially outnumbered" new vehicle registrations. Polk's tally for the 15-month period shows that 14.8 million vehicles were scrapped, while registrations of new vehicles totaled 13.6 million. That suggests that families may be downsizing from three cars to two or even fewer and escaping the annual car taxes, insurance and maintenance costs of unneeded clunkers. Such a frugal mind-set could take the edge off any recovery...
...with Harvard considering sweeping restructuring of its library system and reexamining its capacity for expansion, the University may be forced to rely even more heavily on less tangible means of materials collection—including at off-campus sites such as the Depository. With shelf space running dry in Cambridge, the Depository is a critical component of Harvard’s vision of the modern library, whose holdings are first found online rather than on the shelves themselves...