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  • Food

    May 9, 2012

    Uber's Cache Cabs

    A restaurant sedan service that stands to threaten the taxi trade.

  • Calendar

    February 22, 2012

    The Darkness

    A restaurant sedan service that stands to threaten the taxi trade.

  • Blogs

    October 11, 2011

    Amazon's Kindle Fire Gets Its Very First Patent Lawsuit

    ​Amazon's Kindle Fire tablet has now taken perhaps its largest step toward being recognized as a legitimate player in the computer gadget wars.

  • News

    August 17, 2011

    Jeff Bezos' Smartphone Airbag

    The Amazon CEO's ridiculous patent that never was.

  • Blogs

    August 12, 2011

    Jeff Bezos Applies for Smartphone Airbag Patent, Over Thinks Things

    ​Sometimes thinking like a genius has its advantages. And sometimes it just makes you forget that there are much simpler solutions to some of life's more mundane problems. Take the problem of cell phones. Or, more specifically, the fact that while they have become ever more central to our liv ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 27, 2011

    Microsoft Looks to Patent Skype-Spying Technology

    ​Here's a look at a new patent just filed by Microsoft that covers some slick technology to be used in the company's newly acquired Internet phone service Skype. It's pretty neat stuff. Just don't call your friends on Skype to tell them about it, because the cops might be listening.

  • Blogs

    May 10, 2011

    Microsoft to Buy Skype for $8 Billion and Hope It Turns Out Better Than the Time It Bought aQuantive

    ​In August of 2007 Microsoft made what was widely considered a very risky move when the company shelled out $6 billion to buy online advertising firm aQuantive. That deal has generally been labeled a flop since then as it's done little to increase Microsoft's revenues, while online losses have ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 10, 2010

    Fitz & The Tantrums

    ​In August of 2007 Microsoft made what was widely considered a very risky move when the company shelled out $6 billion to buy online advertising firm aQuantive. That deal has generally been labeled a flop since then as it's done little to increase Microsoft's revenues, while online losses have ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 24, 2010

    iJacking Becoming the New Rage for Lazy Headline Writers

    Even the Hamburgler knows iPhone theft has been going on for years.​Smartphone owners, beware! KOMO News says that you're the target of the latest crime wave sweeping greater Seattle. In an article published last night, KOMO declares that iJacking is "becoming the new rage for criminals." Wha ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 11, 2009

    "Game Over" for Microsoft?

    Do you really care if this software is or isn't on your phone?​Up in the San Juans, tech analyst Mark Anderson publishes an influential newsletter called Strategic News Service, little read by laypeople but studied intently by industry players in Redmond and Silicon Valley. In a recent pronoun ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 27, 2009

    Microsoft WinMo Getting Ass Kicked by Cupcake

    ​While Redmond is crowing and Steve Ballmer is gloating about the successful launch of Windows 7, the smartphone platform Windows Mobile is being treated like a bastard stepchild--locked and starved in the basement, if you will. With the PC operating system market now fairly mature, the new gr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 12, 2009

    Microsoft a Danger to Sidekick Users

    Oh no, I totally lost all your contacts! Haha. You should see your face right now.​If you're a software giant, and your next big push is into the world of mobile phones, the absolute best possible marketing tool would be to prove that you have what it takes not to screw up the service you alre ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 11, 2009

    WSJ Reports on MSFT's Phone Strategy

    Let's shoot down some rumors and relay some facts about Microsoft and smartphones. The Wall Street Journal reports here that the Redmond software titan will start playing catch-up to Apple's iPhone app store by offering similar phone-friendly gizmos for the new Windows Mobile 6.5. One such service, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 6, 2009

    Kindle Fever!

    Kindle 2.0 is koming! As predicted, next Monday morning in New York, Jeff Bezos will unveil the second generation of the popular digital download device. Gizmodo says the press conference, which it will live-blog, begins at one o'clock our time, and predicts Bezos will announce some features that pu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 5, 2009

    Zune Will Save Us All

    Over at TechFlash, Todd Bishop says that MSFT is importing some key executives from its Zune division to help the guys in Windows Mobile. The latter application is used on some, but not very many, smartphones. Motorola is one client for the software. But that's a brand in decline. Now we've already ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 3, 2009

    If MSFT Made a Smartphone

    We recently relayed the rumor that Microsoft should, according to some speculators, buy Palm, which is about to market the sexy new Pre smartphone. The cell phone market, according to The New York Times, is stagnant, so any new growth lies along the smartphone path. (Or, as some would have it, follo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 29, 2009

    Should MSFT Get Into Smartphones?

    Here's an interesting theory from Slate and Cnet, which is timely given Microsoft's layoffs and miserable stock performance (down to about $18 per share from $32 a year ago). Writing for Slate, Farhad Manjoo suggests MSFT should buy Palm, maker of the very hot, very hyped Palm Pre (above). That woul ... More >>

  • News

    July 23, 2003

    Redefining Microsoft

    Like it or not, the company that aspires to innovate is tied to the PC.

  • Arts

    January 17, 2001

    Free and clear plan

    Lunch breaks and vacations barely exist in this tech-mad era—unless you unplug.

  • News

    January 13, 1999

    Whale tales

    Lunch breaks and vacations barely exist in this tech-mad era—unless you unplug.

  • News

    December 2, 1998

    Call waiting . . . and waiting

    Lunch breaks and vacations barely exist in this tech-mad era—unless you unplug.

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