Intel: iPhone cant haz internet!

This storey is so dumb, you'll have to excuse the lolcat-speak in the title. At a development conference in Taiwan, Intel's VP Mobile Shane Wall used the keynote to talk about Intel's upcoming "Moorestown" platform, but mostly to slam Apple for using rival mobile platform ARM in the iPhone. "If you want to run full internet, you're going to have to run an Intel-based architecture," Wall said. Which might even be true technically, Moorestown may well have advantage over the older ARM platform. Not being that kind of engineer, I couldn't tell you. But the delivery is unbearably snotty. And this after Apple switches to Intel processors across its line of computers; a relationship that, among other things, resulted in the Atom processor and Intel being able to pretty much corner the market over rival AMD. Way to torpedo a good business relationship, Mr. Wall, I'm sure you'll get a nasty phone call from Steve Jobs. Either that or he'll go straight to your boss.

Speaking of Steve Jobs, the reports of his death are (still) greatly exaggerated. It seems that the rumour about Jobs having a heart attack started with an 18 year old you thought it would be a funny joke. Seriously. This out of the SEC investigation begur under the premise that the report was planted in order to manipulate Apple's stock price. Nope, turns out that just about any jackass can get though the vetting process for CNN's iReport site, and can say anything they think is funny with no one at CNN bothering to follow up.

In other news, that funky smell might be your laundry, or it could just be airborne nitrogen tetrafloride. Seems that this powerful greenhouse gas, which traps heat 17 000 times better than an equivalent mass of carbon dioxide, is four times more common in the atmosphere than previously thought. The gas is still rare, measured in parts per trillion in atmospheric samples, but is so potent that it may impact global warming models.

There are many kinds of geeks, but perhaps my favorite is the kind who will try to put Linux on anything, even if it is not evern a computer unless you take the word in very broad sense. Take, for example, Yellow Dog Linux for PlayStation 3. Oh yeah. And just like lawn gnomes, Linux hippies can turn up anywhere.