Matthew Panzarino on Google's relationships with mobile phone networks and why that's the reason the Nexus 4 doesn't have LTE:

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Brent Ozar shares his experiences with the Surface. The videos are particularly telling.

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The Surface is partially for Microsoft’s world of denial: the world in which this store contains no elephants and Microsoft invented the silver store with the glass front and the glowing logo and blue shirts and white lanyards and these table layouts and the modern tablet and its magnetic power cable. In that world, this is a groundbreaking new tablet that you can finally use at work and leave your big creaky plastic Dell laptop behind when you go to the conference room to have a conference call on the starfish phone with all of the wires and dysfunctional communication.

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Bruce Schneier on the convictions of six Italian scientists over a 2009 earthquake in L'Aquila:

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Steve Ballmer told the BBC: "Is it fair to say we're going to do more hardware? Obviously we are... Where we see important opportunities to set a new standard, yeah we'll dive in."

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New iMacs and MacBook Pros

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The best Twitter app for the Mac is out on the Mac App Store.

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Loren Brichter is back:

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Amazon’s goal should be for Kindle typography to equal print typography. They’re not even close. They get a pass on this only because all their competitors are just as bad or worse. Amazon should hire a world-class book designer to serve as product manager for the Kindle.

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1536x1152.

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Motorola had promised owners of the Photon, Electrify, and Atrix an upgrade to to Android 4.0, known as Ice Cream Sandwich, which would bring a host of new features and security updates. Instead they are stuck on Gingerbread, an operating system that was already a year old when Else bought his phone.

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Not quite CoffeeScript, but Microsoft's new TypeScript language claims to be a superset of JavaScript that complies to JavaScript.

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