Snow Leopard: Pogue dodges a bullet
So the fecal matter hit the spinning blades for our good friend and loyal fanboy David Pogue (in photo above, pleasuring himself with a MacBook) this week. Today, Clark Hoyt, the “public editor” at t...
Spotify iPhone App: First Impressions
Well, it finally made it onto the iPhone. The Spotify mobile app, quite possibly one of the most hyped mobile application releases yet. — After watching the preview video (embedded at the foot of t...
Apple To Kill Off iPod Classic, Double Down On Touch, iPhone Developer Predicts
Apple's annual iPod/iTunes product event will take place this Wednesday in San Francisco. In addition to announcing new iTunes features, Apple will almost certainly introduce an updated version of th...
Why I switched from PHP to Python
When it came time to start putting code to paper at CrashCorp I was faced with the decision of choosing both a language and a platform. After 11 years of coding solely in PHP I'd grown tired of the l...
Meetup Had Its First Profitable Month In July
Meetup cofounder and CEO Scott Heiferman has a nice column in today's New York Times, as part of its “The Boss” feature. — It describes how he got his start in New York — first, working for Sony in ...
What Now? Q&A with Ex-Google China Chief Kai-Fu Lee
Kai-Fu Lee, who last week resigned as president of Google China, has launched Innovation Works, an incubator for Chinese IT startups. It has been funded with $115 million, including from lead investo...
Are Open-Source Cameras The Way Of The Future?
Scientists at Stanford are working on an open source camera that could change the world of photography by giving programmers the power to change and add features to a camera via software updates. If ...
50 things that are being killed by the internet
The internet has wrought huge changes on our lives - both positive and negative - in the fifteen years since its use became widespread. — Tasks that once took days can be completed in seconds, while...
How the Web OS has begun to reshape IT and business
These days in the halls of IT departments around the world there is a growing realization that the next wave of outsourcing, things like cloud computing and crowdsourcing, are going to require respons...
Technorati Changed Their Business and Few Noticed
Technorati is getting some heat for hiring bloggers... getting heat from people who wish the company would just do better the thing that they used to do which proved to not be a business worth having....
Google UFO logo ‘mystery’ solved
The internet was apparently baffled yesterday when Google changed its logo to show a UFO abducting one of Google's Os. Our story on the “mystery” is currently our most-viewed technology story, with 2...
Technorati now hiring bloggers (and biting the hand that feeds them?)
This Wednesday (September 9th)
The iPod line is admittedly lower-profile since many Apple fanatics have switched to iPhones …
Texting? No, Just Trying to Read Chapter 6
IN our digital age, miniaturization rules. This is a welcome thing — in most cases. Squeezing two billion transistors onto a small chip? All good. Squeezing an enormous printed textbook down to iP...
The Pursuit of Community
I GREW up with four siblings who were 12 to 17 years older, so I was exposed early to the fields they were interested in — science, art and business — and the diversity influenced me. When I was a pr...
Google Wave: 5 Ways It Could Change the Web
Google Wave arrives on September 30th. On that day, Google will start sending out 100,000 invites to non-developers to its much-anticipated real-time communication platform. — It's not even release...
Ex-Google China chief to fund Chinese tech start-ups
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Kai-fu Lee, Google Inc's former China chief who quit the search giant this week, said on Sunday he will launch his own business next week to fund Chinese technology start-ups. —...