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Gizmodo, un des principaux sites de gadgets, publie des infos sur l’iPhone 4G, prochaine version – encore ultra secrète – des joujoux en or de Steve Jobs. Une histoire à dormir debout avec une touche de rocambolesque, assez d’infos pour exciter les geeks et cette petite dose de scandale possible qui fait les meilleures “unes”.
L’appareil, apparemment un prototype, semble avoir été trouvé dans un bar de Silicon Valley à 30 kilomètres du siège d’Apple. Gray Powell, ingénieur de 27 ans, l’aurait oublié sur son tabouret après avoir posté un message sur Facebook célébrant les vertus éthyliques des bières allemandes.

Les gens de Gizmodo ont démonté l’appareil et en exposent les principales caractéristiques sur leur site.

Il semble qu’ils ont acheté le téléphone en question à la personne qui l’a trouvé. Pour5.000 dollars affirment certains (à moins que ça ne soit 10.000$). Nick Denton, patron de Gizmodo, reconnaît avoir payé mais ne donne pas de chiffres.

Apple a envoyé une lettre exigeant sa restitution .

Jaloux sans doute de ce scoop qui leur a échappé certains blogueurs s’acharnent. Charles Arthur du Guardian se demande qui est passible de la justice (le type qui ne l’a vendu ou celui qui l’a acheté, à moins qu’ils ne soient complices).

Et quand on connaît le caractère de Steve Jobs et sa haine paranoïaque des fuites on peut aussi se demander si Gray va être viré .

A part les mésaventures de ce pauvre ingénieur de 27 ans, je trouve l’affaire assez hilarante au vu de l’obsession sécuritaire de Steve Jobs.

Et vous?

PS – N’oubliez pas de regarder les caractéristiques de l’appareil. Elles sont intéressantes. Il a, entre autres, une caméra sur le devant…

Vu sur : pcworld.fr

Le dossier de l’attribution de la quatrième licence 3G est clos. Free Mobile sort vainqueur !

Iliad, maison mère de Free, peut exulter de joie. En effet, le régulateur des télécoms (Arcep) vient de confirmer ce matin que Free Mobile a été retenu dans le cadre de l’obtention de la quatrième licence 3G. Une décision qui devrait permettre à Free Mobile de lancer sa première offre dès la mi-2011, et ainsi relancer la concurrence sur un marché qui en a bien besoin face à Orange, SFR et Bouygues Télécom.

Vers davantage de concurrence ?

« L’arrivée de ce nouvel acteur devrait avoir un effet favorable sur la dynamique du marché de la téléphonie mobile, et, plus généralement, devrait être un facteur positif pour le développement des services de communications électroniques (…) Free Mobile envisage de proposer au consommateur des offres claires et innovantes à des tarifs compétitifs de nature notamment à faciliter l’accès à l’Internet mobile » précise l’Arcep. Rappelons que Free Mobile prévoit de diviser la facture mobile des foyers par deux.

Free Mobile s’est engagé, auprès de l’Arcep, à couvrir sous huit ans au minimum 90% de la population française avec son réseau 3G. De manière très officielle, la licence de Free Mobile entrera en application en janvier 2010. Free Mobile a donc jusqu’à janvier 2012 pour lancer ses premiers forfaits. A savoir également que Free Mobile ouvrira son réseau aux opérateurs virtuels (ou MVNO).

Vu sur : the99percent.com

In an era of mobile devices, instant connectivity, and automated mailing lists and notifications, it is all too easy for people to contact us. As a consequence, we live our lives just trying to keep our heads above water. Our ability to prioritize and control our focus is crippled by an unyielding flow of incoming communication: email, texts, tweets, facebook messages, phone calls, and so on (and on).

Without realizing it, most of us have entered the new era of what I call “reactionary workflow.” Rather than being proactive with our energy, we are acting in response to what is incoming. Having relinquished control over our focus, it has become harder and harder to embark on our work with intention.

Amidst the research for my upcoming book on extremely productive creative people and teams, I have found that the “uber productive” actively develop methods for defying this new and dangerous trend. They impose discipline on themselves and set up blockades when necessary. And, most importantly, they have a “separation of church and state” philosophy for communications and actionable stuff.

« Proactively blocking out time for creating – rather than just responding – is a key tactic of productive creatives. »

I’ve interviewed a number of people who literally quit (or minimize) their email program at certain times during the day. For example, Piers Fawkes, founder and editor of PSFK, reserves a good chunk of his morning – from 7-10am every day – to do research and digest the day’s trends and news prior to going through his email. Proactively blocking out time for creating – rather than just responding – is a key tactic of productive creatives.

You should also consider keeping the “actionable” stuff in your life separate from your email and calendars. Whether through post-it notes, action management programs (like ActionMethod.com), or even using a separate color pen or notebook for items requiring activity, try to manage your action steps in a sacred space. Doing so will empower you to prioritize and focus on the stuff you want (and need) to do, rather than living a life reacting to whatever flows in.

Voir le comparatif sur Culture-Buzz.fr

Acheter l’application sur Itunes

It may well, argued Daniel R. Hesse, the chief executive of Sprint Nextel, when I spoke to him after the embattled wireless carrier announced its second-quarter earnings last week. He said that an increasing number of customers were going to use mobile hot spots — tiny devices that connect any nearby gadget equipped with Wi-Fi to the Internet using a cellular data network. (In May, David Pogue reviewed one of the first of these hot spots, Novatel’s MiFi 2200, calling the concept a “jaw-dropper.”)

As devices like digital cameras and portable game machines seek to communicate with the world over the Internet, Mr. Hesse argues, this sort of hot spot is better than trying to put a cellphone connection on each gadget or accepting the one-device limit of a wireless data card for a laptop.

“If it’s your iTouch or MP3 player or your netbook or your PC or whatever it might be, even your BlackBerry phone, it can use Wi-Fi to connect to the mobile hot spot to connect to our 3G network,” Mr. Hesse said. “You won’t need a separate bill for each and every device.”

Mr. Hesse said that there were already 425 million computers and other gadgets with Wi-Fi connections.

The one bill you do have won’t be small, however. Sprint charges $99, after rebate, for the Novatel device and $59.99 a month for up to 5 gigabytes of usage. Verizon Wireless offers the same device with a range of price plans.

Mr. Hesse said the hot spot, MiFi, is selling well, but he expected the concept to take off as Sprint introduces its faster 4G network in conjunction with its Clearwire affiliate.

He imagines that people will put the hot spots “in the coffee-cup holder of the car.” He added, “As you go down the road, everybody is connected.”

This isn’t entirely fanciful. J. Wilson, who reviewed the Verizon version of the device on Amazon.com, is already taking it on the road:

It’s surprising how easy it is to connect when traveling in an RV (I’m retired, so I find myself in many geographical locations, when connecting …) and this gadget has provided me with Wi-Fi connection in the Grand Canyon’s RV Trailer Village, in the mountains above Boulder, Co, and at the border of Glacier Nat’l Park (at the portal of West Glacier, East of Whitefish).

And on my commuter bus ride to New Jersey, my laptop is picking up hot spots called MiFi, implying that people are already throwing these gadgets in their purses or briefcases so they can surf on the road.

This sort of mobile hot spot clearly has some uses. It’s great for groups of business travelers. And even some families that travel with more than one laptop might well lust after one. I’m not convinced this is a mainstream product, though. It’s expensive and adds yet another gadget in your life to recharge. I wonder whether you would rather simply carry a cellphone that can connect — by way of Wi-Fi or Bluetooth — to your camera, game machine and so on. But I do think more and more people will want some version of what David Pogue called the “personal Wi-Fi bubble.”

Still, Sprint, which is still losing customers rapidly, needs every weapon it can muster to generate excitement.

What do you think? Would you pay for a portable Internet hot spot so that any gadget you own can go online?

By Saul Hansell
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