Jonathan Ive wasn’t always the Grand Overlord designer and demi-God at Apple. Before Ive re-imagined the Macintosh, other talented souls attempted to shape the next generation of Apple products with the clean industrial design for which the company is famous. In the 1980s, Frog Design was… Read More »
Archive for July 2009
Facebook continued to crack down on ad networks this week by updating its advertising guidelines. Starting August 3, ad networks must receive authorization from Facebook to run ads that contain user data, such as names and profile pictures, the company said in… Read More »
For a utility that’s in the process of installing smart meters, there are probably few things more terrifying than the simulation of a smart meter worm that IOActive’s Mike Davis showed off at the annual security conference Black Hat on Thursday. During Davis’ presentation, he… Read More »
Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer has an unimpressive track record at predictions, which is why his latest comments should be of concern to Apple and, especially, MacBook Air fans: Those new ultra-thin PCs, the first of which will be coming later this year and, presumably running Windows… Read More »
Behold, the power of our colleague Michael Wolf to sway communications giants! Well, that might be overstating it, but earlier this week, Michael wrote a piece about how lame Verizon’s FiOS Twitter app for the TV was (it was just a public stream of tweets… Read More »
Like Simon, I use Google tools to manage just about everything I do. I keep most of my files saved as Google Docs. I use Google Calendar to schedule my time. I rely on Gmail to manage the several emails addresses I have. Having a… Read More »
It’s Friday, and that means it’s time to share the busy happenings at Mobile Tech Manor, my home office. It’s called MTM because there isn’t a form of mobile technology that hasn’t crossed over the threshold. This is column number 50, a huge milestone as… Read More »
Just a few months after the Obama administration set aside $400 million for high-risk clean energy research projects, the Department of Energy has narrowed the pool of some 3,500 applicants down to about a couple hundred. This week, the DOE completed its evaluation of the… Read More »
Earlier this morning, I got a chance to catch up with Dr. Sanjay Jha, co-CEO of Motorola, soon after his company reported earnings (they met Wall Street’s modest expectations) to talk about everything from the state of the mobile market to prospects for Motorola. I will… Read More »
Parkour and freerunning, the incredibly athletic urban speed gymnastics sports, are perhaps 15 years old. They are individualistic, grassroots and often non-competitive. But they are unquestionably awesome to watch. And so YouTube has actually done a lot for parkour — introducing the world to… Read More »
You know you’re at a hacker convention when the word Pwned is used in numerous speeches and conference literature. I spent a couple hours on Thursday at the annual Black Hat security convention in Las Vegas — not to learn about the newest ways… Read More »
In mid-July, Verizon pushed the Slacker music application to all BlackBerry Storm devices. The software is tied directly to Verizon’s VCast store so if you like what you hear on Slacker, Verizon is happy to sell you the track right over the air. I… Read More »
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