Phi Network Magazine » 2007

Ghost ships

What are ghost ships? The oldest seems to be the Griffon, launched in 1678 by the early French explorer and trader La Salle. The ship vanished on the return leg of its maiden voyage loaded with furs for trade. No trace of the ship was ever found until recently, when a possible candidate for the wreck was found by divers in the form of a very old hand-carved mast sticking out of the muck.

In any case, sailors have seen a ghostly apparition of the Griffon under full sail on several occasions crossing lake Michigan …

Google Bullfighting with Apple

Google

According to the Cringely Pulpit — a weekly column on the website of public-service broadcaster PBS — Google is in bed with Apple while both companies are keeping a close eye on each other’s every move.

Google CEO Eric Schmidt says, “Google’s architectural model around broadband and services and so forth plays very well to the powerful devices and services Apple is doing. We’re a perfect back end to the problems that they’re trying to solve. …

More storage at Gmail

Google

The Gmail storage counter seems to have been stuck around 2,800MB for quite a while. Many users have exceeded that some time ago, so it was appropriate that storage-rich Google announced new target numbers going forward.