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LOCKDOWN
In a stunning sweep and a victory for Apple any way you slice it, an unnamed party has purchased the “iPhone DevTeam” Pwnage tool demonstrated on YouTube, widely announced for release today. The team has been disbanded and the jailbreak and unlock scene will probably never be the same again.
Surely the lawyers have locked this [...]

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Her Majesty the Queen of Impressions Returns to the Boob Tube
Back in the glory days when the Simpsons first aired, I remember watching The Tracey Ullman Show afterwards, characterized by her zany characterizations that I was probably too young to fully appreciate. She’s back, but this time on premium cable, and last night premiered her [...]

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Launches of iPhone SDK and Adobe AIR Foreshadow Possible Strategy
Steve Jobs “just says no” to Flash on iPhone. Well, on first glance, that’s just what he says now, and we all know, like a good episode of Lost, there’s always more to unpack and nothing is what it seems. Considering Adobe’s product line, the [...]

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Specula-palooza Rocks On
The latest in Flash and iPhone rumor-mongering suggests a YouTube plug-in for Mobile Safari will accompany this summer’s Touch OS 2.0 update. An uncorroborated claim indicates that this plug-in is contained within the recently seeded developer iPhone SDK 2.0 beta firmware.
This would theoretically enable embedded YouTube movies to work on the billions of [...]

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No recent posts as we focus on Professorial site

It has been awhile since posting to mercurious. However, we’ve been hard at work updating our academic site. This site now documents recent student work:

Freshmen Processing work
Muzzi, the digital pet —music player hybrid
Info Wraps, a mobile informatics research project

It also now features a commercial work samples page [...]

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