Hello everyone, if your wireless drops or if you do not have a laptop just use your smart phone. The mobile site has a useful interface to view the schedule by day and by track.

I am hosting a BOF in room 206 at 4:15pm today, Monday to present how we created the mobile version of the DrupalCon website. The mobile version will automatically load for all webkit based smart phones.

Apple has passed 1 million users in the first 48 hours since it launched on Wednesday at the company’s annual music themed event.

More people browsed the Internet last month with a device running Apple's mobile operating system, iOS, than used Linux to do so. That's a first for Apple, according to NetMarketShare, a firm that produces metrics on the market share of browsers, operating systems and search engines.

The Samsung Galaxy Tab--officially unveiled at the IFA show in Berlin this week--looks like the first tablet worthy of challenging the Apple iPad. However, there are still some obstacles and unknowns that could get in the way of the success of Samsung's Android tablet.

Apple makes big announcement about a social network for music lovers. When music lovers go hunting for the service, they end up in some Internet backwater. They like what they find there and the little guy gets a boost in business thanks to the big guy's big marketing budget.

For the past month, the latest 27-in. iMac from Apple has been the centre of my digital universe.

When iOS 4.1 is released by Apple next week, it will have a number of new bells and whistles enhancing the iPhone and iPod Touch experience. Whether or not the highly-anticipated update will finally fix the proximity sensor issue plaguing iPhone 4 users, though, is still uncertain.

A critical bug in QuickTime was reported to Apple two months before a second researcher independently revealed the vulnerability this week, the director of a bug bounty program said Friday.

Apple's "social network for music" may be off-key, a cacophonous crowd of critics are carping about Ping's rampant spam, security holes, crippled Facebook integration, and overall poor design.

Wondering why you can't use Facebook to find your friends on Ping--Apple's new iTunes-based social network that supposedly connects to the social networking site? Turns out Apple and Facebook were unable to reach a business agreement.

A reminder, G-Technology by Hitachi are behind the new G-Technology Driven Creativity Awards, promising €5,000, around £4,112 to the top creative talent and IDG publications Macworld and Digital Arts as proud panel judges.

Apple's internally developed A4 chip could be implemented in new devices such as low-power servers, TVs or even communications or entertainment boxes, if the company tries to expand the chip's footprint, analysts said.

Apple's music-focused social network, Ping is only a few days old, and already the iTunes-based feature is "drowning in scams and spams," security researchers say.

Android's share of mobile web traffic climbed to 25% in August in its best one month gain since Nov. 2009.

Apple announced Friday that its Ping social network for music has reached more than 1 million users in its first 48 hours after launch.

As expected, iPhone 3G performance improves considerably when running iOS 4.1 in an informal speed test.

You have to agree that Drupal admin screens can be pretty gnarly to interact with. If you want a better looking Modules listing page and if you want a tidier node add and node edit form... Then read on and watch the video at the end.

OK. I Pride myself on being HIPP and knowing about the newest modules and the coolest modules. I can not explain how I missed the MODULE FILTER module.

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Late in the code sprint the last day of DrupalCON in Copenhagen, there was a lot of discussion going on about the upgrade path in Drupal 7.  Questions of how to handle certain aspects of the process and prevent horrible flaming death when upgrading a site and its contrib modules.  Upgrade processes, much like data migration, often become a sticky problem.   Right now that stickiness has literally stuck the release of Drupal 7.

Regardless of the release status, folks are starting to adopt D7 for their projects.  The Examiner recently launched on Drupal 7.  Acquia's Drupal Gardens moved into public beta this summer, also on D7.  These folks aren't alone, but not everyone has the expertise and backing to convince the decision makers to live on the bleeding edge.

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Another prominent exclusive arrangement with Apple for the iPhone is expected to conclude in a matter of months, when it is anticipated that Deutsche Telekom will lose sole access to the iPhone in Germany.

Some of you may have seen my tweets and screencasts about the ELI Media Server.  It's a new project as part of ELMS that will involve a lot of screencasts about how we're integrating m Features JWPlayer Module