Leaked from today's 404 episode:
- Zynga and Hasbro announce board game versions of the most annoying Facebook ones.
- Will.i.am and Simon Cowell considering X-Factor style show, for tech.
- New Ninja Turtles cartoon replaces Cowabunga with....
Bathroom break video: Longboarder attacked by a deer.… Read more
A Canadian comic book publisher is taking a biographical twist with its latest releases. Instead of caped crusaders and Web-slinging avengers, the focus is on tech pioneers like Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Steve Jobs.
Bluewater Production comics has already seen success with comic books about pop culture icons like Lady Gaga and Betty White. Writers and illustrators say the stories of these technology mavericks play out in many ways like a typical comic story, the heroes are just real people overcoming the odds with super human qualities we all admire.
But there is a real difference between penciling a … Read more
Apple ported iTunes to Windows, so why can't it do the same for Android?
That was just one of the comments made by Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak in a Q&A on tech-news site Slashdot yesterday.
Although he and Steve Jobs built Apple from the ground up, Woz has remained technology neutral, enjoying hardware from a variety of companies and competitors. As an Android device owner, he'd like to see Apple enter that arena as well.
"If you remember, we ported iTunes to Windows," Woz said in a response to one question. "We now … Read more
Leaked from today's 404 episode:
- Artist encourages Apple to "Think Different" with Steve Jobs action figure sculpture.
- Man mistakenly sexts entire contact list, lands in jail.
- Jay-Z helms star-studded Barclays Center opening.
- Today is the 30th anniversary of the first CD sale in Japan...Steve Guttenberg reflects.
- Key set available for $150 on eBay provides an all-access pass to NYC.… Read more
Leaked from today's 404 episode:
- Ho-hum. The iPhone 5 isn't going to wow anyone
- Don't kid your selves, Apple's dock connector change is awful
- Planning for winter: the worst accessory for your new iPhone
- "Tupac hologram" maker Digital Domain files for bankruptcy
- Emoticon creator says emojis are "ugly"
Bathroom break video: 770 pounds of eggs spill onto the road in China, gets looted… Read more
Apple's iPhone 5 launch with new iPods and an iTunes overhaul highlights the new era at the company that revolves around incremental updates, design prowess, and control of an entire user experience. But something is missing: the Steve Jobs reality distortion field.
Jobs' showmanship was brilliant. He could take an incremental update -- or a feature that has been seen somewhere else before -- and make you think it was brilliant, amazing, and beautiful. I knew it was a game, but it was one I played willingly. I'm going through Apple keynote withdrawal.
Now I'm beginning to … Read more
Starting in 1986, photojournalist Doug Menuez began taking photos of Steve Jobs, then in exile from Apple and working at his next startup, NeXt. Jobs was just one of the execs Menuez followed around as part of a 15-year chronicle of Silicon Valley during a formative era in its history. But the pictures never saw the light of day after Jobs had a change of heart.
Until now. The photos went up on display as part of the "Moscow Photobiennale: 'Fearless genius' inaugural exhibition."
"The Russians have a long tradition of scientific and engineering excellence and seemed … Read more
Hewlett-Packard will cut more of its global staff than first planned, upping the figure from around 27,000 to 29,000 employees.
The world's largest computer maker said today in its
10-Q quarterly filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that it will, "eliminate approximately 29,000 positions in connection with the 2012 Plan through fiscal year 2014."HP said in May that it would cut 27,000 jobs -- roughly 8 percent of its global workforce -- and plow the $3 billion to $3.5 billion it says it will save into research and … Read more
A federal court has approved a settlement agreement reached between the U.S. Department of Justice and three book publishers accused of conspiring with Apple to fix e-book prices.
The DOJ filed suit against Apple and five of the country's largest book publishers in April and accused the group of antitrust violations. Immediately after filing the complaint, the government announced that it had reached a settlement with three of the five accused publishers: Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins Publishers, and Simon & Schuster (owned by CBS, parent company of CNET).
As part of that settlement, the three e-book publishers agreed … Read more
AngelList -- a booming site where angel investors find tech startups to back -- is rolling out a product today that should please a lot of would-be Mark Zuckerbergs and, in theory, worry a lot of lawyers.
Ultimately, it could help both.
The site, founded in early 2010 by entrepreneurs/angel investors Naval Ravikant and Babak Nivi, is now offering standardized online documents that will make it faster and cheaper for any of the thousands of startups on AngelList to close their first round of funding.
AngelList Docs, as it's called, breaks down the money-raising paperwork process in a … Read more
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