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• Free service to do this: http://www.ringshuffle.com/   You can probably do this from a browser on your phone, but from your desktop browser, you can do this for any phone, not just smartphones.   As far as I know, it allows you to receive …

  in New 'Burner' app lets iPhone users create temporary, disposable phone numbers Comment by kayle August 2012
• Quote: Originally Posted by Kayle This sounds like Apple is grafting in capability-based security into Mac OS through sandboxing, much like HP Lab's Polaris did for Window some years ago. I'm going to have to go read the documentation on this.…

  in Inside Sandboxing: how Apple plans to make the Mac App Store as secure as iOS Comment by kayle February 2012
• This sounds like Apple is grafting in capability-based security into Mac OS through sandboxing, much like HP Lab's Polaris did for Window some years ago. I'm going to have to go read the documentation on this...

  in Inside Sandboxing: how Apple plans to make the Mac App Store as secure as iOS Comment by kayle February 2012
• Anyone involved in the DRAM business for more than a few years has experienced the boom & bust nature of the business. The big problem is that eventually, you need to build new fabs to build future generations of chips, and a new fab is very …

  in iPad disrupting global DRAM market, causing chipmakers to lose billions Comment by kayle December 2011
• "Radical" idea: base a cheap iphone on the (sixth gen) ipod nano. Make it a little larger to add a speaker and a slide out microphone pickup. Semi-radical idea: base a cheap iphone on the fifth gen ipod nano. Put keypad in place of click whee…

  in Hypothetical no-contract $300 'iPhone lite' would net Apple 16% gross margin - analysis Comment by kayle April 2011
• 120 mm^2 die size seems a bit on the large size. My experience in the semiconductor market is quite out of date (more than a decade ago), but the rule of thumb then was that you wanted to keep chips under 100 mm^2 as the costs per chip goes up quit…

  in Inside Apple's iPad 2 A5: fast LPDDR2 RAM, costs 66% more than Tegra 2 Comment by kayle March 2011
• Microsoft Research has been hiring lots of great people for more than a decade. The real questions: can Microsoft translate research into products? Have the product groups benefited? (I recall that Talisman was an amazing commercial success! *gri…

  in Microsoft, HP to introduce touchscreen tablet Wed. - report Comment by kayle January 2010
• That Lala had nontrivial cash reserves and had still concluded they needed significantly more backing speaks well of Lala's board and senior management. Startups tend to hang on to hope and faith too long, and then end up negotiating in desperation…

  in Apple reportedly spent $80 million to acquire Lala Comment by kayle December 2009