Since its introduction, my beef with the iPhone has been obvious; buying it ties you to AT&T, a company that violated the law, and the rights of its customers, by allowing and assisting with the illegal wiretapping and data-mining for the NSA.  Keep in mind, there were other phone companies asked … but AT&T is [...]

Wow, it sounds like this wasn’t thought through too well, apparently Apple requires you to activate your new iPhone at the store you buy it from. On a normal day this should work out alright, but not on today, with the rash of people snapping up the new model. “Problems with the iTunes [...]

Here’s a working demo of Google’s Android operating system in action.  It’s got some pretty fly features, with a few bits that remind me a bit too much of the iPhone, but hey.  Now if they put it on a decent phone (OpenMoko anyone?) with a data plan that doesn’t require the use of AT&T, [...]