“He’s got the scars and the great ideas.”
– A former Apple employee on Newton developer Michael Tchao, who’s returning to Apple after a 15-year absence, presumably to work on the company’s rumored tablet device
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Announcing the Microsoft Newton
Well, what do you know? Like Apple, Microsoft is also developing a tablet computer. It’s called “Courier” and it’s remarkably different from what Apple is imagined to be cooking up.
Friday, July 25, 2008
iTablet: Apple’s Killer App for Higher Ed
At a 2007 all-hands meeting to discuss the iPhone, Apple CEO Steve Jobs said the company has the “best Macs” ever in the new-product pipeline right now. The machines waiting in the wings are “off the charts,” he said. Now just what Jobs meant by that is, obviously, known only by the man himself and those who whose heads would be piked on the gates at 1 Infinite Loop if they ever told.
Apple to Intel: We Shafted IBM and Motorola. We Can Shaft You Too.
Apple’s finally found a worthy use for the more than $18 billion in cash and short-term securities gathering dust on its balance sheet. The company’s acquiring P.A. Semi for about $278 million in cash.
Friday, December 21, 2007
Look, Guys! A Christmas Card From Apple Legal!
Well, Apple Insider isn’t paying much mind to the sudden closure of its Mac rumor site brethren earlier this week. Citing the same sort of “people familiar with the matter” that got Think Secret into trouble, the site today reports that Apple plans to adopt Intel’s upcoming ultra-mobile Silverthorne chip in “not one but multiple [...]
Monday, December 3, 2007
Dude, I Invented Friggin’ Visual Voicemail. Heard of It?
As lawsuits go, the timing couldn’t be more perfect. Klausner Technologies filed a $360 million patent-infringement suit against Apple Monday claiming iPhone’s Visual Voicemail, a signature feature of the device, violates a few Klausner patents (so much for those vaunted “200 iPhone patents”). This on the very day that IDG World Expo announced that Apple [...]
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
I Hear Ford’s Bringing Back the Edsel, Too.
Well this ought to give all those Newton fans who demonstrated in the parking lot of Apple’s Cupertino campus the day the company killed the device in February 1998 a bit of satisfaction. “Well respected sources” (whatever that means) tell Apple Insider that Apple is hard at work on a modern-day Newton project.
“Like iPhone and [...]
Thursday, June 14, 2007
It’s Not a PayPal Mockery. It’s a ‘Person-to-Person, Stored-Value Payments Celebration’
iPhone: Eat Up Martha?
At our All Things Digital conference last month, Apple CEO Steve Jobs claimed that no one on Apple’s design team questioned the forthcoming iPhone’s lack of a physical keyboard. Of course, the team members have presumably spent enough time with the device to feel comfortable with it. Not so the New York Times, which has dubbed the onscreen keyboard Apple’s “billion-dollar gamble,” apparently without even using it.
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- Godzilla’s Food, Exercise, and Dream Diary
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. - Scenes From An Alternate Universe Where The Beatles Accepted Lorne Michaels’ Generous Offer
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.
- The Golden Age of Video
Best video mashup ever.
- I’m not dead yet
A Facebook Memorial
- Pulp Fiction Audio Mix
Wow.
- A world without the Internet
Worth it for the Rickrolling photo alone.
- Google Wave Cinema: Pulp Fiction
Excellent.
- Dead Fly Art
Flughumor!
- Happy Birthday Monty Python …
… you vacuous, toffee-nosed, malodorous perverts
- ‘You are being shagged by a rare parrot’
Stephen Fry and zoologist Mark Carwardine meet the kakapo — a fat, flightless and very randy rare parrot.
