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Dodge is known for bucking conventional pickup-truck wisdom. The ‘94 model polarized everyone with its brazen big-rig styling. For 2009, the Dodge Ram gets perhaps its most significant breakthrough yet: rear coil springs. That’s big news, as is the 390 horsepower rating of the revised 5.7-liter Hemi.
But is class-leading power and a new suspension enough [...]

Apple’s 3G iPhone announcement today was probably the minimum necessary to please the community. The real news was the things that weren’t announced:
–No tablet device (again).
–No major changes to the form factor of the iPhone.
–No other major product announcements.
Apple has made its Macworld and WWDC keynotes into a specialized form of performance art, complete [...]

Today Adobe announced a series of changes to its emerging web applications platform. The changes include:
–The next version of the mobile Flash runtime will be free of license fees. Adobe also confirmed that the mobile version of the Air runtime will be free.
–Adobe changed its licensing terms and released additional technical information that [...]

A year ago I wrote a frustrated critique of the CBS television network’s online coverage of the US national college basketball tournament, which we fans affectionately call “March Madness” even though half of it happens in April (link).
In the tournament, which includes 65 teams, there are often four games underway at the same time, and [...]

Summary: The business of making native apps for mobile devices is dying, crushed by a fragmented market and restrictive business practices. The problems are so bad that the mobile web, despite its many technical drawbacks, is now a better way to deliver new functionality to mobiles. I think this will drive a [...]