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Le Googlephone N'Existe Pas

There is no Googlephone. So insists Valleywag's Owen Thomas. His source is a Foxconn exec who was overheard talking to a Google VP. Instead the Googlephone served as a useful fiction to scare its rivals, not the least of which...

iGod Cover Up For Award, And Thoughts On Earnings

The American Society of Magazine Editors today unveiled the finalists in its Best Cover contest, and one of them features -- you guessed it -- Apple CEO Steve Jobs. I don't know how many magazine covers he's been on in...

So Paul Otellini Stopped By Monday....

Paul Otellini, CEO of Intel was in our offices here in New York on Monday. I would have been in on the meeting, but was busy listening to Apple's earnings conference call and so couldn't make it. My colleague Steve...

Loving Leopard, Not Alone

I installed Leopard this weekend. So far, it rocks. Word today from Apple is that it moved 2 million copies of the new operating system over the weekend....

Now Why Didn't I Think Of That?

Chris Anderson, editor at Wired and author of "The Long Tail" has a pretty good idea: Public humiliation of PR people who don't do their homework. Those who don't do their homework and pitch him irrelevant story ideas are banned...

Greenpeace Responds

After last weeks column on Greenpeace and its repeated calling out of Apple regarding toxic chemicals inside its computers and the iPhone I got a phone call from Rick Hind, legislative director at Greenpeace's Washington office. We talked for awhile,...

The New Trojan: Proof You Can't Cure Stupidity

I've received at least two pitches from security software companies trying to get publicity traction off the disclosure of the latest social engineering Trojan for the Mac. I chose the terminology "social engineering," for a reason. This Trojan can infect...

Apple + Adobe? Umm. No.

Brandon Watts over at OSWeekly has a suggestion: Apple should acquire Adobe. It's a fair idea that even made the front page of Slashdot, fair that is, until you start running the numbers. Apple has $15.4 billion in cash, and...

Does The World Need Another Mobile OS?

Listed in no particular order... Microsoft Windows Mobile Research In Motion Blackberry OS Symbian Mobile Linux in its various flavors OS X Palm OS Tell me again why we need Google's Android OS?...

True Story

An old friend came to visit today. I'm not going to give his or her name, but this person used to work at Microsoft, and was somewhat senior. Before leaving, however, he/she decided to take advantage of a discount that...