Foursquare Teams With Bravo TV
Bravo TV and Foursquare will announce a new partnership on Monday that will integrate Bravo TV shows with the game aspects of Foursquare, a social networking site that encourages people to interact in...
Amazon Caves To Macmillan's eBook Pricing Demands
A new development in the Amazon vs. Macmillan fiasco. Amazon just posted an announcement indicating that it will be “capitulating” to Macmillan by selling the publishers' books for their desired pric...
China bugs and burgles Britain
THE security service MI5 has accused China of bugging and burgling UK business executives and setting up “honeytraps” in a bid to blackmail them into betraying sensitive commercial secrets. — A leak...
The best way for Adobe to save Flash is by killing it
Having done several years of Flash development and having worked with many Flash developers, the recent controversy between Apple and Adobe over Flash on the iPad is very amusing to me. First, there ...
How to Hate the iPad: A Break-Down of the Backlash
A friend recently admitted a favorite past time of his - watching plane crashes on YouTube. Planes crashing, helicopters twirling out of control, boats sinking - all are fair game. For a lot of peop...
Stephen Colbert Gets An iPad & Shows It Off At The Grammys
Haha, it seems like after begging for one the entire week, Stephen Colbert just saw his dreams come true. — Tonight at the Grammys, instead of pulling out the “Song of the Year” envelope, he managed...
Are You a C.E.O. of Something?
This interview with Mark Pincus, founder and chief executive of Zynga, a provider of online social games, was conducted and condensed by Adam Bryant. — Q. What are the most important leadership less...
To Deliver, iPad Needs Media Deals
Short of landing in a flying saucer and having a tablet teleported into his hands, there was no way that Steve Jobs could have lived up to the hype before last Wednesday's iPad announcement. — But h...
Google joins the titans of Silicon Valley lobbying
With great power comes even greater headaches. Just ask Google. — The company's transition from upstart to Goliath has multiplied its legal and policy problems. There may be no better measure of t...
Google's 'Don't Be Evil' Mantra is ‘Bulls**t,’ Adobe Is Lazy: Apple's Steve Jobs
After a big public announcement of the sort Apple had this week for the iPad CEO Steve Jobs often takes time in the day or two afterwards to have a Town Hall at One Infinite Loop, making himself avail...
Who Can Do Something About Those Blue Boxes?
Robert Scoble has a good analogy: … Regarding those blue boxes that indicate embedded Flash content in MobileSafari, think of it this way: Who can make them go away? — Adobe can't. They can't put Fl...
Amazon, Macmillan: an outsider's guide to the fight
(Apologies for the formatting; I'm typing this on a netbook with a tiny keyboard.) — Last Friday, Amazon.com unilaterally pulled most or all of Macmillan's books from their online store. (You can s...
Facebook rewrites PHP runtime
A week ago, I let ya'll know that the core PHP team had been brought to Facebook's main campus. That team were forced to sign NDA's, and taken to a very quiet, secluded meeting room where some cool n...
iPad board games: Apple has created a ‘Jumanji platform’
While many people struggle to understand why they would ever buy an iPad, we think we've come up with a pretty exciting reason - digital board games. If you've ever tried to play a board game on a ga...
Smart Dust? Not Quite, but We're Getting There
In computing, the vision always precedes the reality by a decade or more. The pattern has held true from the personal computer to the Internet, as it takes time, brainpower and investment to conquer ...
Motorola Backflip (ME600) available now - but only in China
Expected to be launched soon in the US, as AT&T's first Android phone, the Motorola Backflip is already available in China - where Moto also has Android devices like the XT800 and MT710. — The Backf...
Trillian chat client gets a Mac version, now in alpha
Trillian has enjoyed a nice, long run as one of the most popular multi-protocol IM clients for Windows. It's not just surviving, though, it's thriving and expanding to new platforms. I tested out th...