It’s human nature to be impressed by things claimed to be the biggest and the baddest. That’s why tech journalists have always fixated on speeds and feeds. For databases, that meant the ones that claimed to store zettabytes of data, crunched zillions of transactions per hour, or scaled to hundreds of thousands of clustered servers.

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…let me explain. My internal alarm bell sounded Tuesday when I saw a pair of tweets rush by:

“85% of population have smart phones #mobile #shrm10″

“99.7% of students have cell phones #shrm10 #mobile”

Um, really?! Maybe if you took a very specific sample, like: Apple Store employees. Or private high school students in Manhattan.
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You may not know Mike Lee, but you may know his Apps: the original Tap Tap Revenge game, which was the second-most-downloaded iPhone app of 2008, and the Apple Store App that let users pre-order iPhone 4s and other Apple products.
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Several days after the release of iOS 4, and, ho hum, some hacker has already jailbroken it. But wait! The new twist is that there are reports, based on an anonymous-but-detailed-tip from an alleged Apple employee, that Apple and AT&T plan to send mandatory over-the-air updates every 1-2 weeks that will disable iPhones running jailbroken copies of iOS 4.

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“Fo’, fo’, fo” was legendary basketball center Moses Malone’s promise to fans that his Philadelphia 76ers would sweep its playoff opponents 4-0 and win the 1983 NBA title. Malone’s bold prophecy came through, and he was named the MVP.
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We already knew some of the goodies that iPhone OS 4 would deliver to enterprises: multitasking, unified e-mail inbox, SSL VPN, and more. etc. At the WorldWide Developer Conference today, Steve Jobs said there are 100 new features and 1,500 new APIs for developers, but didn’t expand on that.

We’ll cover that as more details on those emerge. In the meantime, let’s cover some of the new things that Jobs did unveil at WWDC, and their implications for mobile enterprises. (more…)

Nick Carr made his deep thinker reputation with two ahead-of-the-curve books last decade. On the issue of hyperlinks in Web pages, however, he seems to have missed the bigger picture.

On his blog today, Carr writes that he now condemns the practice of embedding hyperlinks inside blog posts and other Web writings.
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