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  • Wikileaks not worried post-U.S. Army kerfuffle

    Wikileaks not worried post-U.S. Army kerfuffle

    Posted on June 9, 2010 | No Comments
    A quick update to that Wikileaks story from the other day. The site says that the recent arrest of a U.S. Army analyst who had contributed to the site won't negatively affect the site at all. More importantly, the arrest shouldn't prevent future whistle-blowers from shining the light of truth on humanity's darkest secrets. (That sounds ominous, no?)

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  • Official: Apple Launches the iPhone 4

    Official: Apple Launches the iPhone 4

    Posted on June 7, 2010 | No Comments
    Steve Jobs finally made the iPhone 4 official. He's probably more glad to see this happen than us with more than a couple iPhone 4s prematurely making their way into journalist's hands over the last few weeks. But none of that really matters anymore. The iPhone 4 is here. Developing...

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  • Steve Jobs is going to say something at D8 tonight

    Steve Jobs is going to say something at D8 tonight

    Posted on June 1, 2010 | No Comments
    All Things D aka D8 is happening right now and they’re blogging live, describing the exciting things Steve Jobs will say in grave detail. What do you reckon he’ll say? If it’s anything good, I’ll update this post but feel free to posit in comments below. UPDATE – Engadget has some nice coverage as well. Steve [...]

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  • Nokia Head of Design Marko Ahtisaari talks about priorities, competition, and future direction

    Nokia Head of Design Marko Ahtisaari talks about priorities, competition, and future direction

    Posted on May 11, 2010 | No Comments
    Marko Ahtisaari will be a familiar name to Dopplr users, being both the CEO and one of the major investors in the startup's social networking software. Having been acquired by Nokia in late September 2009, his team now works to help Symbian regain its world-conquering ways while Marko himself has returned to Nokia to helm its Design group -- an outfit that, judging by the world's disappointment with the N97 and other devices, is frankly in need of some fresh ideas. So, when we were invited to meet him this morning for a journalist get-together where Marko hoped to "begin the conversation" about Nokia's future direction, we grabbed our pen, paper and DSLR and rushed off to go have a listen. The camera came in use when we got to handle a Nokia N8 prototype for the first time, but do join us after the break to see what else we learned.

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  • Daniel and Everett thank us profusely for our Internet largesse

    Daniel and Everett thank us profusely for our Internet largesse

    Posted on April 6, 2010 | No Comments
    It's not often we get thanked for stuff we do here, so this little email this morning was quite refreshing. I posted a link to Daniel and Everett's show yesterday as part lark and part serious exploration into the blossoming and inevitable sad decline of the young journalist (I'll see you kids at the ulcer doctor!). However, Daniel took the time to drop me a note this morning and it warmed by sclerotic heart. It reads:

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  • Perhaps We Should Hold Apple And Other U.S. Companies Responsible For Foxconn’s Crimes

    Perhaps We Should Hold Apple And Other U.S. Companies Responsible For Foxconn’s Crimes

    Posted on February 18, 2010 | No Comments
    Buried in a Reuters report on Foxconn, a division of Taiwan's Hon Hai Precision Industry, is a description of an attack on a journalist visiting a Foxconn factory in China while chasing down a lead on an Apple product. The journalist was taking pictures of the factory from a public road, he says, when two guards attacked him and tried to drag him into the factory:

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  • Google Nexus One gets OTA update, multi-touch goodness

    Google Nexus One gets OTA update, multi-touch goodness

    Posted on February 2, 2010 | No Comments
    When Google announced the Nexus One at an event early last month, one journalist asked, "Why doesn't this have multi-touch? When is it going to get multi-touch?" Andy Rubin, VP of Engineering at Google, said, "It's something we're looking into. It's just a software thing right now." Well, today our prayers have been answered via an over-the-air update for the Nexus One. It also has some critical updates and fixes, too.

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  • Sharp goes its own way, doesn’t lose its mind promoting 3D TV (like everyone else has)

    Sharp goes its own way, doesn’t lose its mind promoting 3D TV (like everyone else has)

    Posted on January 9, 2010 | No Comments
    Let's have a round of applause for Sharp, which could be the only TV manufacturer here that isn't freaking out over 3D. (Not that it, too, doesn't have 3D TVs on its roster, but it doesn't treat them as the be-all, end-all.) Instead, Sharp made the brave decision to try something different, which, you'll recall, adds yellow to the usual threesome of red, green, and blue pixels.

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  • Microsoft Germany: Sprechen nicht von Apple!

    Microsoft Germany: Sprechen nicht von Apple!

    Posted on December 9, 2009 | No Comments
    Microsoft’s PR folks in Germany have officially asked journalists not to use or talk about Apple products during their events. Why? Because one journo said his iPhone kicked ass. 9to5 has a translation of the German story which essentially amounts to a Microsoft asking a journalist not to use his Apple products at an event. “While [...]

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  • Five stars: Wrestling Observer Newsletter/Figure 4 Weekly now has an iPhone App

    Five stars: Wrestling Observer Newsletter/Figure 4 Weekly now has an iPhone App

    Posted on November 12, 2009 | No Comments
    It's no secret that I'm a big fan of mixed martial arts, also “known” as UFC. It's less well-known that, back in my youth, I was a very big pro wrestling fan. (Pro wrestling today is largely unwatchable.) When I was 15 I subscribed to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, written by the hardest-working journalist in America, Dave Meltzer (the man doesn't sleep), a weekly news and analysis publication that detailed, to an incredible degree, the goings-on of the two businesses, pro wrestling and MMA. A little more than a year ago the newsletter entered the online age (while merging with another, similar publication in Figure 4 Weekly, written by Bryan Alvarez), with newsletters being made available online (in addition to the dead trees version). Today the publication enters the next exciting age, the iPhone age. That's right: there's now a Wrestling Observer Newsletter/Figure 4 Weekly iPhone App~!

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  • Does Fedor’s inclusion in EA MMA game jeopardize any possible UFC fight?

    Does Fedor’s inclusion in EA MMA game jeopardize any possible UFC fight?

    Posted on July 30, 2009 | No Comments
    Looks like Fedor Emelianenko will, in fact, be in the upcoming EA MMA video game. Fedor, as he's known to MMA fans, currently fights in M-1 Global, which is an MMA organization based in Russia.

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  • Some of the facts on the Apple suicide

    Some of the facts on the Apple suicide

    Posted on July 24, 2009 | No Comments
    So the New Yorker, of all places, has a few salient facts on the Apple case. I’ll just report them here and let them lie because, as someone once told a man with a broken nose, this is China. The first report is from the Southern Daily where a journalist claims to have seen the surveillance [...]

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