Did Steve Jobs lie to the NY Times?
Jobs. Photo: Apple Inc. — When David Pogue, the New York Times' chief technology columnist, sat down with Steve Jobs after his “It's only rock and roll” keynote Wednesday, Pogue's first question wa...
Goodbye, Gobbledygook
SUNNYVALE, Calif. — For the last 30 years, the computer industry has bragged about its achievements. And when the industry was excited about a breakthrough, it expected — even demanded — that consume...
It's official: no plans to sell Zune HD outside the US
Microsoft has confirmed that it currently has no plans to bring the Zune HD outside of the US. — Recent whispers across the blogosphere that Microsoft currently has no plans to launch the Zune HD in...
Third-Generation iPod Touch Teardown Reveals 802.11n-Capable Wi-Fi Chip, Empty Space for Camera
iFixit has managed to get its hands on a 32 GB third-generation iPod touch and is in the process of tearing apart the device to get a look at the internals. While the new iPod touch is similar …
Cliq builds on iPhone idea, pushes away from smart"phone" category
Take a look at the picture to the right. It's the just-announced Motorola Cliq, powered by Google Android and T-Mobile and scheduled to be released in time for the holiday season. Do you see that li...
What Steve Jobs Actually Said About eBooks
There's been a big brouhaha over comments Steve Jobs made to NYT's David Pogue in an interview following Apple's event on Wednesday. Basically, most people are interpreting what Jobs said about eBook...
Apple fixes Flash snafu in Snow Leopard and 33 bugs in Leopard
Mac users get their third and fourth security updates this week, and Safari may be next, says researcher — Less than two weeks after Apple launched Snow Leopard, the company today issued the new ope...
StalkerCheck, I Mean FanCheck: Explosive New App Gains 5 Million Users in One Day
A clever new app on Facebook, called FanCheck, gained five million users on Sunday, according its creator, a company called Smile. — Why the growth? The app lets you see which of your friends spend...
Treatment of Alan Turing was “appalling” - PM
The Prime Minister has released a statement on the Second World War code-breaker, Alan Turing, recognising the “appalling” way he was treated for being gay. — Alan Turing, a mathematician most famou...
Microsoft: Windows Mobile 7 not on the PDC docket
I (and others) have been wondering and speculating whether Microsoft might be holding its Windows Mobile 7 cards close to the vest and be planning to show, or at least talk about, Windows Mobile 7 at ...
Skype Kills Extras (and Its Developer Ecosystem)
Skype's new owners should be aware of one small thing: They are paying $2 billion for a company that, despite having more than 400 million subscribers, doesn't know how to leverage that platform. Why...
Skype Deal Drama Gets Joost-ier
On Friday, Joost, the U.K. Internet video company, said that by shareholder vote it had removed Michelangelo Volpi …
Grand Central Now Open to All
Apple today made the source code of Grand Central Dispatch available under an Apache open source license. One of the new technologies for concurrency added to Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, Grand Centra...
802.11n Wi-Fi Standard Gets IEEE's Green Light
Despite lack of an official announcement, task group chairman has sent out a notification to a listserv for task group members. — Recommends — The IEEE has finally approved the 802.11n high-throug...
Microsoft-Yahoo Web Search Deal Faces In-Depth Justice Department Review
Sept. 11 (Bloomberg) — Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo! Inc. have been asked by the U.S. Justice Department for more details on a proposed Internet-search partnership, expanding the agency's review of the a...
The Founders Visa Movement
In April, Paul Graham wrote an inspired post titled The Founder Visa. In it he proposed the idea of creating a US Visa for founders of startup companies - 10,000 / year for founders of companies that...
Run a Free BitTorrent Tracker on Google
In their defense, operators of BitTorrent sites often argue that they do nothing more than Google does. They offer a search platform for people to find content on the web, specifically torrent files....
RealNetworks: iPhone App Won't Help, J.P. Morgan Says (Updated)
J.P. Morgan analyst Vasily Karasyov this morning cut his rating on RealNetworks (RNWK) to Underweight from Neutral, asserting that there isn't much upside potential for the company from the newly appr...
Job Boards Are So Over. TalentSeekr Targets And Recruits Through Ads Instead.
Even though unemployment is at the highest levels in a decade, companies are still finding it difficult to find the best qualified candidates to fill the positions that are available.
Microsoft's Windows 7 ad campaign kicks off
With the launch of Windows 7 still nearly six weeks away, Microsoft has kicked off it's marketing campaign. — Here's the ad: — So, what do you think?
WordPress, Twitter, the Elks Club: 10 new routines at a news startup
This is what a profitable post-paper newsroom looks like: — And this is what it feels like: 15 hours a day, seven days a week, from the 7 a.m. check-in with your spouse-turned-business-partner to th...
The Real Problem With The Google Book Settlement Isn't The Settlement, But Copyright Law Itself
In Congressional hearings on Thursday about the Google book settlement, most of the news reports focused on two particular things: (1) the fact that Marybeth Peters, head of the US Copyright Office …
Oracle Has Customers Over a Barrel
As CEO Ellison tries to extend the company's reach into hardware, more corporate clients fret about its high prices and tough tactics — Over the past four years, Oracle (ORCL) Chief Executive Lawren...
5 Ways Banks Are Using Social Media
Lon S. Cohen is a writer and Director of Communications at @ALSofGNY. He is @obilon on Twitter. — Many banks have started using social websites to help them with everything from healing the financi...
Spotify Might Look Different When It Arrives Stateside
Spotify, the digital-music start-up that some call Europe's hottest of the year, is starting to register among Americans after Apple approved its iPhone app. But the U.S. version of the service, sche...
Six Monitors, One Video Card. Hands-On with AMD's Eyefinity
Today's graphics cards can barely handle one 30-inch monitor in gaming. Pushing around 2560x1600 pixels is a challenge for current-generation GPUs. While it's true that each new generation of graphi...