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Standing Up To Steve Jobs
3:19AM Ryan Tate | They apparently imagine themselves as the rebel alliance in Star Wars, and Steve Jobs as Darth Vader, these publishers quoted in Ad Age. And they’re determined to escape the iTunes Store tractor beam, a gorgeous Apple tablet notwithstanding. More »
Online
Steve Jobs Deceives Again, Says Google Evidence
4:41AM Ryan Tate | Steve Jobs and Apple famously dissembled about the CEO’s health, until Jobs took a six-month medical leave. And what did Jobs do on his return? Issued a controversial statement about Google that the search company has now flatly contradicted. More »
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Steve Ballmer’s Two Minutes Of iPhone Hate
2:11AM Ryan Tate | Microsoft’s CEO seems determined to live out a career of comical self parody. Steve Ballmer, who suppposedly hurled a chair in an anti-Google tantrum, has acted out his iPhone rage in a Seattle stadium. How Big Brother can you get? More »
Music
Jay-Z’s Attempt To Kill Autotune: Fail
6:45AM Foster Kamer | Autotune, the technology giving guys like T-Pain, Akon, and Kanye West’s 808s & Heartbreak their trademark sounds, was supposedly murdered by Jay-Z. Not so much: the I AM T-PAIN iPhone app enables ordinary folk to sound just like him. More »
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Everyone Is Getting Twitterjacked
8:49AM Ryan Tate | The New York Post appears to be the latest victim of Twitter-stream hijacking, judging from the newspaper’s latest tweet. But this has been happening all to often lately. More »
Flotsam & Jetsam
The Fevered Fantasies Of Apple’s Fanboys
2:29AM Ryan Tate | One Wall Street analyst predicts Steve Jobs will show up for Apple’s Apple’s iPod event next week; others doubt it. The frenzied chatter is just one way people turn into hysterical teenage girls before these Apple things. Especially online. More »
Flotsam & Jetsam
9:14AM Jess McGuire | Hirsty sent me this great parody of an iPhone commercial. Have I mentioned I’ve suddenly been struck down by the desire to have an iPhone? Why CAN’T I have an iPhone? Won’t somebody give me an iPhone? I have no money but I am occasionally charming and can offer friendship/”more” in exchange for an iPhone! Something something iPhone! Ahem. Back to the clip. More »
YouTube Clip Of The Day
9:14AM Jess McGuire | Hirsty sent me this great parody of an iPhone commercial. Have I mentioned I’ve suddenly been struck down by the desire to have an iPhone? Why CAN’T I have an iPhone? Won’t somebody give me an iPhone? I have no money but I am occasionally charming and can offer friendship/”more” in exchange for an iPhone! Something something iPhone! Ahem. Back to the clip. More »
Online
Five Augmented-Reality iPhone Apps We’d Actually Buy
2:54AM Ryan Tate | Sometime next month, new iPhone software is supposed to ease the way for “augmented reality” apps, which digitally superimpose data on the world, as seen through the phone’s camera. Very cool idea and, so far, very boring execution. Think, people! More »
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A Steve Jobs Confession, A Fanboy Shock
10:57AM Ryan Tate | Yes, Steve Jobs is that evil. Silicon Valley spent the past month convincing itself AT&T just absolutely had to be responsible for kicking the useful Google Voice application off the iPhone App store. Whoops, it was Dear Leader. More »
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