John Paczkowski has been poking fun at the tech industry and the personalities that drive it since 1997. From 1999 to 2007, he wrote the award-winning tech news Web log Good Morning Silicon Valley for the San Jose Mercury News, Silicon Valley's daily newspaper. Read more »
Here is a statement of my ethics and coverage policies. It is more than most of you want to know, but, in the age of suspicion of the media, I am laying it all out.
12:58 AM: Breakfast: Two schools of fish from Tokyo Bay. Calories: 782,000. How I was feeling when I ate this: confused, irradiated, hating my size. 11:37 AM: Exercise: “Taxi Stomp” (alternating legs, for 30 blocks). Calories burned: 148,900,183.
1983. The Beatles announce their first tour in thirteen years, but likewise announce that Michael Jackson will be going on tour with them as a one gigantic mega-concert event.
Today is fast turning into an ugly one for Apple (AAPL). In the past 24 hours the company has been beset by bad news. Britain’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has ruled that one of the company’s iPhone ads is misleading. Apple is being accused of censorship after banning the Murderdrome comic from the App Store for violating the terms of its SDK, which prohibits “content or materials that in Apple’s reasonable judgment may be found objectionable by iPhone or iPod touch users.” And now a nasty security bug has surfaced in the company’s iPhone. Seems the passcode lock that allows users to limit access to the device is easily bypassed with just a few finger taps. All an intruder need do to access much of the private information stored in an iPhone’s address book, e-mail or voicemail is simply press the “Emergency Call” key on its passcode entry screen and then double tap its home button. What’s most unfortunate about all this is that Apple fixed a similar vulnerability back in January with iPhone v1.1.3.
