If AT&T’s lawsuit over Verizon’s allegedly misleading “there’s a map for that” ad wasn’t a public relations mistake to begin with, it will be by the time Verizon gets through with it. Responding to the suit today, Verizon rep Jeffrey Nelson used it to stoke public perception that AT&T’s network is inferior to Verizon’s.
Hewlett-Packard ushered in a new paradigm for printing today, one absent the PC. This morning the company announced a wireless touchscreen printer that will allow users to print documents from the Web without ever using a PC or browser.
Apple rolled out iPhone 2.2 early this morning, as expected. And, as expected, it boasts enhancements to the device’s Maps application, improvements to its telephone functionality and support for over-the-air podcast updates, as well as a few other interesting additions.
“The secret of success is: Start 12 years ago.” That’s how Multimap Founder and Chief Executive Sean Phelan once described the digital-mapping business. And he’s probably right. Of course, there’s another secret to success as well: acquire a business that started 12 years ago.
Which is what Microsoft did today when it purchased Multimap for a [...]
Ever heard of Wayfaring? Platial?Flagr? How about Click2Map? Well, if you haven’t yet heard of these personalized map services built on top of the Google Maps API, chances are you never will. Because on Thursday, Google launched a new feature that may well put them all out of business. Dubbed My Maps, it allows [...]
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.
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.
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.
Spectacular in the bellowing Russian sailor sense of the word …
“If you spell something wrong on your insurance claim, do you really deserve surgery? I don’t think so …”
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