Phil Schiller Is A Man On A Mission: To Save The App Store
As Apple's Senior Vice President of Worldwide Product Marketing, you'd have to imagine that Phil Schiller is a pretty busy guy. He's also been moonlighting as Apple's keynote speaker during Steve Job...
NPR Mobile Strategy Mixes Text With Live And On-Demand Audio
National Public Radio is already a leader in podcasting. But a free NPR News iPhone app, approved late today and launching tonight, opens up a new dimension for the network and its member stations wi...
Hey, maybe that iPod touch with a camera is real after all (video)
Look, we're not too proud admit this: that iPod touch with a camera might actually be the real deal. Why do we think that? Video after the break, kids. — Update: And... here's a gallery of new pic...
WP.me — shorten your links
shorten your links — Check out this address: — http://wp.me/sf2B5-shorten — If you visit it, you'll end up right back here. The nice thing about it is that it's a short link, about 70% smaller ...
How Twitter works in theory
It is said that an economist is someone who sees something that works in practice and wonders whether it works in theory. Twitter clearly works in practice - and if you want practical advice, watch L...
‘Easy work-around’ could solve Microsoft Word's legal woes, says expert
Microsoft can avoid injunction, but paying i4i isn't likely, says patent attorney — Computerworld - Microsoft Corp. can likely use an “easy technical work-around” to sidestep a recent injunction by ...
Borders Survey Name Drops the Apple iPad
If you're a friend of Borders (and really, who isn't?), you may have received an email asking you to take a survey to receive a 20%-off coupon. Being the penny-pinching book lovers we are, we decided...
3,563,849th image of Apple's tablet surfaces
Behold! The latest “no seriously, this is the real thing!” image of Apple's forthcoming, maybe real, definitely imminent, 100 percent fabricated, probably not, kind of confirmed tablet computer hit t...
“Snatching Digital Rights” or Protecting Our Culture? Burning Man and the EFF
On Wednesday, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) issued a criticism of Burning Man's ongoing efforts to protect the rights of our participants, and our efforts to forestall the creep of commerci...
Starbucks: Stay as long as you want
Last week, the Wall Street Journal reported that some New York coffee shops were pulling the plug on customers that park themselves at tables, open their laptops, and hang out for hours, buying perhap...
Quake Live for Mac hits the Web on August 18
It looks like id Software is at last ready to deliver on its promise of providing quality browser-based fragging to Mac users. Speaking at this past week's QuakeCon 2009, id CEO Todd Hollenshead said...
Justice Department defends massive file-swapping fine
Nearly two years ago, the Bush administration sided with the major record labels in their civil lawsuit against an alleged and briefly famous Kazaa user named Jammie Thomas. Now the Obama administrat...
Google Caffeine: What it really is
Wake up and smell the file system — Join the experts from The Register, Dell, VMWare, Intel and Freeform Dynamics - Live — As it invites the world to play in a mysterious sandbox it likes to call ...