Snippets for Tuesday.

Today we remind you of a Steve Jobs Venture that kinda succeeded, a sudden outbreak of common sense in Ireland, and Apple and Google duking it out in TV land.

Oh, and something about there being an app for that…

Today In Computer History

October 12, 1988

Steve Jobs Introduces NeXTComputer

Right, with all the success he has had in recent years one often forgets about Steve Jobs’ other – less successful – ventures, like the NeXT computer.

It introduced some really cool features, and then bombed.

Read more about it at Computerhistory.org

Irish court rules in favour of ISPs in piracy case

Take that antipiracy profiteers. An Irish court has ruled in favor of a motion by ISPs that cutting of users from the Internet is illegal and cannot be enforced in Ireland.

Heres hoping other countries follow suit. (SaGeek Disclaimer – We do not condone piracy, but we do believe that users have rights, and these rights are too often trampled and ignored by anti piracy groups, it has become a revenue stream – nothing less.)

Read about it at BBC.co.uk

Google to launch low-cost Android phones in India

Aha, a month after RIM caved to pressure from the Indian government re allowing them to snoop on RIM BlackBerry users, Google dives in with plans to launch low-cost Android phones.

Key difference here, is where RIM has set a precedent of bending over to Government Whims, Google set a precedent by giving mighty China the finger. I wonder how they will approach Government snooping requests – and of equal importance, how the government will approach Google with their blatant “We wanna see your emailz” line.

Read Indiatimes for more.

Twitter aims for a billion users

Twitter wants a BILLLLLION USERS! By when? Uhm, they didn’t say.

Irish Times has the story.

Apple trade marks ‘There’s an app for that’

Apple has secured the US trademark for ‘There’s an app for that’

Well, since we are in South Africa, allow me to demonstrate how South African Blogs can approach this, until they get the trademark here too.

Want SSH on your HTC Desire? There’s an app for that.

Want to read daily newspapers on your HTC Hero? There’s an app for that.

Google Goggles on your Galaxy Tab? There’s an app for that.

Want to add $functionality to your $android device? There is, in fact, an app for that.

Want flash on your iToy? Uh, yeah, about that…

Read The Register for the UK take on this, disappointingly with less nose thumbing.

Google and Apple heat up battle for TV screens

Oh boy, Sony is launching a Google Powered TV, and Logitech already has. Of course Apple launched its own TV box too.

Know what, I am rooting for Google here, why? Because there is an app for that!

Via BBC.co.uk

Web health services need ‘rules’

Know what, I agree with this. Maybe homeopaths will get some regulation too. I mean, if they ever want to graduate from the dark ages to ‘real’ medicine they will have to play by the same rules.

Until then, real doctors will need to be monitored – and unfortunately the Internet needs to be protected against homeopaths the uneducated medical Googloids of this world…

Read it at News24.com

Oh, and guess what, want to do remote diagnoses with an Android device? There’s an app for that.

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