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Steve Wozniak on Apple Security, Employee Termination, and Gray Powell
During last weeks iPhone leak saga, Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple, reached out to us with a story: The morning of the iPad launch, an engineer showed Woz an iPad for two minutes. For this he was fired. It's a story that paints Apple as many people already see the company: ruthlessly secretive, and even vindictive. ...
Facebook Shows off New Tools to Socialize the Entire Web
Facebook is launching a new suite of tools that bring the Facebook social experience to any site on the web. The company is releasing a set of products called Social Plugins, which any web publishers can drop into their website using one very simple line of code. These plug-ins will let visitors Like news stories, photos ...
The Gloves Come off in Fight Between Apple and Adobe
After much coaxing from media commentators observing the subtle conflicts between Apple and Adobe Systems, the two technology giants appear ready to step into the ring. Mike Chambers, Adobe's product manager for the Flash video platform, published a blog post on Monday with a series of direct and harsh words aimed at Apple. The Cupertino-based maker ...
Adobe Gives Up on Flash for iPhone, iPad
Adobe will no longer pursue its plans to bring Flash to Apple's iPhone and the iPad. Adobe on Tuesday evening said it is ceasing investment in a software tool that enables Flash developers to port software into native iPhone and iPad apps, according to Mike Chambers, Adobe's principal product manager for Flash developer relations. The primary ...
Apple Didn't Leak iPhone, and Why That Matters
A controlled leak? The lost iPhone planted by Apple? You have no idea how Apple PR works and how, like it or not, Gizmodo finally beat them at their own game. The only way the iPhone 4 was a controlled leak is if Apple has completely upended its PR strategy, which is the envy of the ...
Unreleased Apple 4G iPhone Dissected
4G iPhone Autopsy: We took apart the next iPhone. There are a number of interesting facts gained from the dissection, the most important of which is more concrete confirmation (as if we needed any more) that this phone is from Apple. There are three separate places, inside the case, where APPLE is written prominently. Upon unscrewing ...
Google Photographers Go Beyond Where No Photographers Have Gone Before: Inside Businesses
Google is now accepting applications from businesses to be among the first places the company sends photographers to take panoramic photographs of the insides of buildings. Street view? You aint seen nothing yet. We reported in February on rumors that this project was in the works. The company says the photographs will be taken by professionals ...
For Apple, Lost iPhone is a Big Deal
For anyone who has ever lost a cellphone, remember this: it could be worse. You could be the person who left his phone in a bar in California. And it wasnt just any phone; it was a supersecret version of the next iPhone. That model is not expected to be formally unveiled for a couple of ...
Facebook Integration Coming to the iPhone?
Facebook's iPhone application is one of the most popular programs in Apple's App Store. But if recent rumors are true, some of that app's functionality could be available to iPhone owners out of the box when the hardware company releases iPhone OS 4.0 later this year. According to a report from Gunning for Safety, the safety ...
The Difference Between Nerd, Dork, and Geek Explained
FINALLY: The Difference between Nerd, Dork, and Geek Explained by a Venn Diagram To all of you nerds and geeks who like me have been unfairly and inaccurately labeled dorks, only to then exhaustively explain the differences among the three to a more-than-skeptical offender, I say: You're welcome. This nerd/dork/geek/dweeb Venn diagram should save you a ...
