What Steve Jobs Learned in the Wilderness
THE saga of Steven P. Jobs is so well known that it has entered the nation's mythology: he's the prodigal who returned to Apple in 1997, righted a listing ship and built it into one of the most valuab...
Confirmed: Windows Phone 7 launches October 11th in New York City, and T-Mobile's on board
If there was any scrap of doubt in your mind, we'll obliterate it for you right now — October 11th is the day Windows Phone 7 will be unveiled in the US, not just at a fancy London event …
What Can Search Predict?
This week research scientists at Yahoo! Labs published a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that examines the possibility of using web search data to predict consumer behavio...
Verizon agrees to refund customers $90 million for wrongful data charges
Did you have a Verizon phone sans data plan, but get billed for data anyhow? Verizon Wireless is dropping $90 million to make things right next month. The New York Times reports that the company …
Wheretheladies.at Shows You Where The Ladies Are At
At the Tahoe Tech Talk this weekend, someone from the audience introduced themselves as a representative of Wheretheladies.at, a domain whose extreme ridiculousness piqued my interest a) because it is...
Google's CEO: ‘The Laws Are Written by Lobbyists’
Watch the full video of this session — “The average American doesn't realize how much of the laws are written by lobbyists” to protect incumbent interests, Google CEO Eric Schmidt told Atlantic edit...
Wow, new Twitter.com has rate limits too
Remember when we told you that the new Twitter.com was re-engineered to use its own APIs? Well, apparently Twitter also decided to set a rate-limit for usage on Twitter.com as well. That's right, I ...
Rise of the Online Autocrats
It turns out that the enemies of free expression are adept at the Internet, too. — The tweets started arriving in August, and they did not mince words. One of the first accused the South Korean gov...