The Apple rumor mill has such a hair trigger, that even passing mention of an unreleased product can set it into yammering motion. As happened today after Digg founder Kevin Rose offered up some purported insider information about the focus of Apple’s “Let’s Rock” media event in San Francisco next Tuesday.
“The majority of good applications will soon come from outside Facebook, not within it.” This according to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg who announced the social network’s new “Connect” service at the company’s f8 conference today.
With less than three months to go before Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple observers are slowly being swept up in that most hallowed of Mac faithful traditions: the futile guessing game.
If Digg founder Kevin Rose is right, Apple’s next generation iPhone will include not one, but two cameras–the second a front-mounted video camera designed for iChat AV.
During a recent episode of his weekly Diggnation vidcast (see above), Rose claimed that the new iPhone reportedly being prepped by Apple (AAPL) for a summer release will enable [...]
Digg has decided to get out while the getting is still good. The social news site is said to be the prize in a bidding war that includes potential purchasers Google and Microsoft, along with two unnamed media companies. (Gee I wonder who those are?)
Anyway … Digg has reportedly hired New York investment bank Allen [...]
As lost causes go, few are more futile than the entertainment industry’s quest to lock down its content with Digital Rights Management. DRM is an increasingly outmoded technology protecting an ever-evolving content medium. And so it came as little surprise when the Advanced Access Content System, Hollywood’s latest DRM poster child, was cracked last December [...]
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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.
Best video mashup ever.
A Facebook Memorial
Wow.
Worth it for the Rickrolling photo alone.
Excellent.
Flughumor!
… you vacuous, toffee-nosed, malodorous perverts
Stephen Fry and zoologist Mark Carwardine meet the kakapo — a fat, flightless and very randy rare parrot.
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