Week in Apple: patent disputes, unauthorized accessory makers, and more
Our top Apple news from the last week included discussions about dropped calls on AT&T, calendar syncing on Outlook for Mac, and a possible iPhone 5 "delay." Apple also came out victorious in a patent dispute over Cover Flow, and is now going after unauthorized iPod accessory makers. Read on for the full summary:WebKit best option for Camino as Mozilla drops Gecko embedding: Developers behind the Camino Web browser are planning to switch to WebKit-based rendering after Mozilla pulled the plug on Gecko embedding. What that means for the future of the browser is unclear.
AT&T iPhone 4 users report over twice as many dropped calls: Recent survey results maintain that Verizon iPhone 4 users—and all Verizon users—suffer from far fewer dropped calls than AT&T users.
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Week in gaming: Battlefield: Play4Free, Super Mario 2, Minecraft in the classroom
Here's what I've learned this week: don't give Peter Bright an assignment if you want to get content out in a timely fashion. I asked for a few hundred words on the new free-to-play Battlefield title for the early afternoon, but he hated it so much he turned in a few pages of bile aimed at what proved to be an ugly, unfun cash grab. Sure, it came an entire day late, but if you read the feature, I think you'll agree it was worth it.Mr. Bright is a great writer when he's annoyed. Which is pretty much all the time.
We also looked at how multiplayer reviews are written, PopCap's new studio, and 3D photography with the 3DS. Take a look!
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Week in tech: Anonymous vs. Sony edition
"Anonymous" attacks Sony to protest PS3 hacker lawsuit: Outraged by Sony's lawsuit against PS3 hacker George Hotz, the hacker collective Anonymous has taken down Sony's Playstation.com site—and it plans real-world protests in two weeks. In doing so, Anonymous made it personal... very personal. Not content simply to flood Sony's websites this week, some members of Anonymous set out to learn where Sony execs live, who they married, and where their kids go to school. They then sent pizzas, ordered condoms, made phone calls—and much worse was suggested.The Drobo FS in-depth, Part 2: day-to-day use: In Part 2 of this in-depth review of the Drobo FS, Ars looks at what it's like to use the device on a day-to-day basis.
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Week in science: little particles, big gravity
Is gravity not actually a force? Forcing theory to meet experiments: Is gravity a result of differences in informational density? Or is this theory too far out there to address all the issues present in modern physics? Here, we take a look at a recent proposal that purports to change how we view the world, and a counter-proposal that says nothing has changed.Tevatron data suggests new, unknown particle—but not the Higgs: Researchers find signs that a particle with a mass of around 144GeV is producing jets of particles in the Tevatron's detectors. This is a bit surprising since we don't know of any particle that has those properties.
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