Video: interview with Steve Wozniak!
We caught up with the one and only Steve Wozniak waiting in line to take an iPhone (or six) home. He even gave a bunch of people in line shirts and signed line badges. Aw, how nice! — [MP4] Downlo...
Report from the line
So, it's been non-stop in line here. I haven't had my hands on a keyboard until 3 a.m. — Why did I wait in line in Palo Alto and not the more sexy San Francisco? Easy, I knew there'd be more geeks...
Will the iPhone violate GPL 3?
You have to feel a little sorry for the Free Software Foundation, which launched the first overhaul of its General Public License (GPL) in 16 years on the same day that Apple's iPhone launch hogged th...
iPhone teardown reveals better-than-iPod construction (photos)
A disassembly of the iPhone immediately after its public launch has revealed small, but useful, information about the Apple handset's assembly. — Technicians at iFixit have dissected the device from...
iPhone first hands-on and unboxing
Say hello to iPhone. — (Don't go far, we're uploading more pictures every minute.)
Ignore US launch: European Tri-iPhone launch will reveal 3G iPhone for Voda, T-Mobile and Carphone Warehouse
A new 3G (European) version of the iPhone will be launched Monday in the UK by Apple - in a join promotion with Vodafone, T-Mobile of Germany, and Carphone Warehouse.
iPhone restricts users, GPLv3 frees them
On Friday, June 29, not everyone in the continental U.S. will be waiting in line to purchase a $500 iPhone. In fact, hundreds of thousands of digital aficionados around the globe won't be standing in...
AT&T customers seeing sudden boost in EDGE speeds?
Shortly after beginning the shutdown process of AMPS and TDMA networks, and just hours before the launch the EDGE-capable iPhone, a number of users are reportedly seeing dramatic increases in EDGE thr...
AMD to Ship Industry's First Native x86 Quad-Core Processors In August
AMD's Stable Infrastructure Strategy Enables Availability of Systems from Platform Partners in September— Continuing to lead the shift of mainstream enterprise computing to energy-efficient processor...
Free Software Foundation releases GPL 3
After 18 months of sometimes inflamed debate, the Free Software Foundation on Friday released version 3 of the General Public License, a highly influential legal document that embodies the principles ...
Powerset's search technology scoop, may scare Google
Powerset, a San Francisco search engine company, will announce Friday it has won exclusive rights to significant search engine technology it says may help propel it past Google. — The technology, de...
Verizon COO: 'iWhatever'
What do you do when your main competitor is about to unleash the most hyped gadget ever to the cell phone-toting masses? Give said gadget a mocking nickname in a memo to employees. — The Thursday l...
Powerset: Is There More Than Buzzwords And Patent Threats?
from the do-we-have-anything-useful? dept — There's been so much hype around search startup Powerset that it seems like it's going to be quite difficult to live up to it. The company kicked off by...
Brian Retkin Speaks On Google Suit
The man behind the lawsuit against Google for defamation said he and his firm would really prefer to put their conflict with Google behind them. — Retkin contacted me from the U.K. to follow up on o...
MySpace to follow rival's lead
MySpace is likely to change its technology strategy to allow other online companies to "plug" their web services directly into its social networking site, according to Chris DeWolfe, one of its founde...
Music industry attacks Sunday newspaper's free Prince CD
The eagerly awaited new album by Prince is being launched as a free CD with a national Sunday newspaper in a move that has drawn widespread criticism from music retailers. — The Mail on Sunday revea...
Powerset: The natural language search mashup platform
Powerset finally came out of stealth mode tonight at its offices in San Francisco. The technology is not ready until September, but the company unveiled what it is doing to revolutionize search. "Th...
And the idea is...
We are developing a web service that harnesses the collective intelligence of The Economist Group's community, enabling them to contribute their skills and knowledge to international and local develop...
City May Seek Permit and Insurance for Many Kinds of Public Photography
Some tourists, amateur photographers, even would-be filmmakers hoping to make it big on YouTube could soon be forced to obtain a city permit and $1 million in liability insurance before taking picture...
Sunset at Sunrocket? Layoffs rumored
BREAKING: Sunrocket, one of the many VoIP service providers that has been suffering as a result of an all-out voice assault by the cable companies is rumored to have hit a major airpocket today. Our ...
Panama Opens New Locks
You can now copy and move keywords from one ad group to another, plus some other cool stuff — Hallelujah! — It's like getting a pebble out of your shoe, or a bit of sand out of your eye. Along wi...
AT&T: 2.5G upgrades won't make iPhone Web surfing faster
Extra: IBM 1401 Mainframe, the musical - Crave: How to keep the pool clean and green - Security Bites Podcast: Web security challenge - Podcast: The tech world waits for Apple - Phishing scam spreadin...
The Cult of the Amateur
Digital utopians have heralded the dawn of an era in which Web 2.0 — distinguished by a new generation of participatory sites like MySpace.com and YouTube.com, which emphasize user-generated content, ...
Facebook is the new AOL
Earlier in the week, I made a comment in passing in a post about Vimeo: … A few people picked up on it and speculated what I might have meant by it. In reading those posts and poking around a bit, I ...
An AIR of Invisibility
Al Mandel, who helped market the original LaserWriter at Apple and later had several high-level positions at AOL, used to say, "The step after ubiquity is invisibility," by which he meant that once a ...
Exchange Update Fixes Potential iPhone Mail Issues
Microsoft has just released an update to Exchange 2007 that should fix issues that could have prevented Apple's new iPhone from receiving mail from Exchange Server 2007. — The Redmond, Wash., softwa...
Where for at thou, Barcelona?
June is nearly over and it's appearing more and more like Advanced Micro Devices will not deliver its much anticipated (both in this blog and elsewhere) quad-core Barcelona chip this month. Several s...
Sharing the Sights and Sounds of Europe through YouTube
The European Commission in cooperation with YouTube has launched EUTube, a video portal showcasting the works of the European Union. The EC hopes to disseminate the activities of the Commission throu...
Knowledge Search: Google Answers for Russia
When Google Answers was shut down last November, many suggested that Google would be working on something to take its place. Yesterday, the official Russian Google Blog announced a new "Question and ...
The Cult of the Amateur
Digital utopians have heralded the dawn of an era in which Web 2.0 — distinguished by a new generation of participatory sites like MySpace.com and YouTube.com, which emphasize user-generated content, ...
Google sued over defamatory postings found on web search
Google, the world's biggest search engine, is being sued by a London businessman in a landmark legal action that could hold the US-based company liable for the publication of inaccurate, malicious or ...
Hugo Ortega phones his wife using...
Verizon Wireless Stores Open
Free Music Essentials Kit with Purchase of LG VX9400 — BASKING RIDGE, NJ — On June 29 Verizon Wireless stores and kiosks …