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  • Blogs

    February 15, 2012

    Mike Daisey's Monologue on Steve Jobs Helps Prompt Apple's China Labor Practices Review

    Daisey​He's the former Seattle author, actor and monologist whose breakthrough book, 21 Dog Years, recounted his riotous customer-service career at Jeff Bezos' Amazon.com (where "Amazon Time was equivalent to dog years"). Now it's Mike Daisey's monologue about another tech mogul, "The Agony an ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 23, 2012

    Is America Even in the Game Anymore? Amazon Moves Into India In a Big Way

    The Sunday New York Times had a provocative story on just how far America has fallen from economic grace, and that the largest technological-making purveyors in this country (Apple, in particular) have all but given up on this country's ability to supply the needed tech-savvy workforce and factory ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 1, 2011

    Did Microsoft Just Buy Nokia for $19 Billion?

    ​The company won't tell us one way or another. But if a particular Russian tech analyst (with a relatively sterling reputation) is right, the deal for Microsoft to buy Finnish phone company Nokia for around $19 billion is either already done or will be very soon.

  • 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 >>

  • Blogs

    March 22, 2011

    Amazon "Appstore" Debuts Today Amid Fanfare and a Big Fat Lawsuit from Apple

    ​Two things usually happen when a familiar technology innovation is modified and launched as something new these days. First, there's a big roll-out party/press event. Second, there's an even bigger lawsuit filed by a competitor that claims it's been copied. So on day one of Amazon's big debut ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 14, 2011

    Stephen Elop, Nokia CEO, Swears He's Not a "Trojan Horse" for Microsoft

    ​It's not every day that a bigwig CEO has to tamp down rumors that he's operating like an ancient Greek war machine or a malicious computer virus.

  • Arts

    July 21, 2010

    The Fussy Eye: Gilt and Weighed

    24-karat ordinary objects.

  • Calendar

    July 14, 2010

    Lisa Gralnick

    24-karat ordinary objects.

  • Blogs

    February 18, 2010

    Nathan Myhrvold Versus The New York Times

    "We're just an innocent little start-up with $5 billion to spend."​Many have speculated, ourselves included, about the intentions and financial performance of Nathan Myhrvold's Bellevue intellectual property investment fund/invention lab, called Intellectual Ventures. Now The New York Times ha ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 15, 2010

    Windows Phone 7: The Early Reviews Are In

    All new! All different! But you can't buy it yet.​Windows Mobile is dead. Long live "Windows Phone 7 Series," which kills Microsoft's old, unloved WinMo at version 6.5. Announced today at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the renamed and redesigned mobile OS is expected to reach the ma ... 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

    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

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    December 6, 2007

    Free Downloads From Beck, Kanye, Manson ...

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    April 14, 2007

    Last Night: Stephen Marley at the Showbox

    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 >>

  • Diversions

    November 24, 2004

    Retro Tech

    For that person confounded by technology, how about a manual typewriter?

  • News

    September 24, 2003

    Data Unbound

    New mobile-phone services are roaming for customers.

  • Film

    April 23, 2003

    Fellini, Hoffman, and The Man Without a Past

    New mobile-phone services are roaming for customers.

  • Arts

    August 9, 2000

    Beauty and the Beast

    Gay men's body consciousness and the rise of the muscle monster.

  • Music

    July 26, 2000

    Car trouble

    Gay men's body consciousness and the rise of the muscle monster.

  • Diversions

    July 26, 2000

    Transcendental communication

    Is there an area code for Walden Pond?

  • News

    October 20, 1999

    Privacy wars, cont.

    Is there an area code for Walden Pond?

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