The Smartphone Snitch in Your Pocket

The Smartphone Snitch in Your Pocket
by Roger C. Lanctot on 01-05-2023 at 6:00 am

The Smartphone Snitch in Your Pocket

The story in the New York Times came with a sensational headline: “Couple in Car Survive 300-foot Fall into a Canyon.” The canyon in question was Monkey Canyon in the Angeles National Forest outside Los Angeles and the couple survived, so the story goes, thanks to their satellite-connectivity-enhanced iPhone.

This is the kind… Read More


A Brief History of Apple Mobile and SoCs

A Brief History of Apple Mobile and SoCs
by Daniel Nenni on 09-09-2015 at 2:30 pm

The big Apple iProduct announcement was today so I thought it would be a good time to premier a draft of the Apple chapter in our upcoming book. Try as I might I was unable to get one of the 7,000 tickets to the live event (it was like getting a Willy Wonka golden ticket!) so I live streamed it from my iPhone like millions of other people. It… Read More