UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon –  UN News Centre 11 Aug 2009 :  We have a choice: adapt or perish . “ Climate change is the fundamental threat to humankind. It exacerbates all of the problems we face: poverty, disease, hunger and insecurity. It impedes progress toward the Millennium Development Goals . It deepens the food and energy crises . If we fail to act, climate change will intensify droughts, floods and other natural disasters. Water shortages will affect hundreds of millions of people.

Telegraph.co.uk Laptop + iPhone = Apple Tablet – the world’s first touch-screen … Independent When asked to sum up the consistently seductive powers of the company that brought the world the iPod and the iPhone , … Report: Jobs Overseeing Details of Tablet Project PC World Rumor: Back at Work, Jobs Cracks the Whip on Tablet Designers Wired News Apple’s Steve Jobs Focuses on Making Upcoming Tablet a Hit DailyTech Wall Street Journal

The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs : Will you write on a tablet, or just read from it? Or will you just buy it and put it on your desk and look at it a lot and never use it at all? Or will you maybe carry it around and put on the table in restaurants to show the other humanoids in your tribe that you are more advanced and wealthy than they are, and they should fear you because you have powerful magic that they do not understand? You see what I mean? What is the anthropology here? And what about the ergonomics? Can you mount it on a wall? Will it have a shiny surface so that Macolytes can adore themselves as they use it in public? (Yes.

In an article published today on the Wall Street Journal Online, Yukari Iwatani Kane reports that Apple CEO Steve Jobs is devoting almost all his time to the development of the much-rumored tablet device. “Since his return in late June, the 54-year-old has been pouring almost all of his attention into a new touch-screen gadget that Apple is developing, said people familiar with the situation.” Kane adds that in an email (presumably to the WSJ, but the reporter doesn’t make it clear) Jobs says that “much of your information is incorrect” but didn’t explain which information was correct.

A Macworld Expo without Apple is like ordering a decaf, non-fat latte – what’s the point? This is old news, right? Not really. For many, this time of year is when the discussion about going to Macworld begins. IDG has already started some of its marketing push. Will Macworld 2010 be a ghost town, or will it be the best Macworld ever? Macworld was in intensive care in 2008 and Apple’s decision to not exhibit in the future killed it, right? Maybe not. Macworld may end up stronger than ever.

Here are some stories that I read today and thought were interesting. (Check back daily at 6PM for my daily links): “Player X” Giving ESPN The Mag An Exclusive Look Into The NFL Rumor: Facebook In Talks To Acquire Spotify This would be VERY interesting given the terrific reviews Spotify has received. Gannett and the Associated Press Will Not Stand for These Draconian New SEC Media “Rules” Now Lenny Dykstra Takes On Insurance Industry – Funny Business with Jane Wells – CNBC.com The Lenny Dykstra story takes another turn.

Swags And Their Importance. During its glorious days; Multiplitaxion Inc ; was giving out amazing logo-wear — T-shirts; pens; mugs; watches; clocks and toys. As an organization it was interestingly  popular when it came to free logo-wear given out to employees. Irrespective of who you were; if you worked at Multiplitaxion Inc ; there was always enough logo-wear going around and you could grab some too. Then as we ‘grew’ in terms of team-sizes and number of employees; something funny happened.

Seems the substitute teacher is out, and the regular teacher is back in the classroom… Read the full story here, from MacDailyNews

08:19 Steve Jobs, back at Apple, focusing on every small detail of upcoming tablet: tinyurl.com/m44ank (via @zho… – post.ly/2qT0 # 12:54 Cindy: Yes it looks great. I wish I had a Mac post.ly/2faa # 13:27 Sony Ericsson Xperia X5 (Nadine) Android Concept #gadgets #svpt post.ly/2rlU # 13:32 I don’t believe Sony Ericsson will release something that looks like this #svpt #gadgets post.ly/2rlU # 13:56 Good to see you here on Posterous too Scoble Let Posterous

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