After a barrage of criticism, AT&T ends the months-long guessing game and announces a launch date for picture messaging on the iPhone 3GS and 3G, a few days after its self-imposed deadline. Still no word on tethering, though.
Through its Twitter account and on its Web site, AT&T says that MMS functionality will finally arrive on the iPhone on September 25—a few days after the “later this summer” deadline that the carrier initially promised—through a “software update,” presumably iPhone Software 3.1.
The news comes on the same day as this blistering article …

Holding off on buying a Kindle? That might not be such a bad idea, as color versions of electronic paper displays are well underway, with commercial products likely to hit the market in the second half of next year.
Current, monochrome e-paper displays work by using thousands of tiny balls, white on one side and black on the other. When electrically charged appropriately, the black or the white side of the ball can be made to point “up” toward the face of the display.
Adding color to this mix complicates things considerably, …