by Jeffery Battersby | Jan 31, 2010 | Asides
As is so often the case, John Gruber gets better goods than the rest of the world… UPDATE: Arnold Kim has a few more tidbits. And one DF-reading little birdie emailed to say that while the gist is right, the Wired transcript is clearly paraphrased: “He...
by Jeffery Battersby | Jan 31, 2010 | Asides
Google’s ‘Don’t Be Evil’ Mantra is ‘Bullshit,’ Adobe Is Lazy: Apple’s Steve Jobs | via Wired.com Far be it from Steve to mince his words: On Google: We did not enter the search business, Jobs said. They entered the phone business. Make no mistake they...
by Jeffery Battersby | Jan 31, 2010 | Commentary, Featured
Amazon removes Macmillan books | via CNET News Apple will allow publishers more leeway to set their own prices for e-books. Although the prices will be tethered to print book prices by a formula that will generally yield prices between $12.99 and $14.99 for most...
by Jeffery Battersby | Jan 30, 2010 | Asides
The Times Herald Record, a local newspaper, reported yesterday that the mayor of the City of Newburgh, a town about 5 minutes from where I live and the place where I used to work, wants the 9/11 trials in his city. He says: ‘I look at it almost as a tourist...
by Jeffery Battersby | Jan 30, 2010 | Asides
Great demo on SlashGear TV of the new iPad.