Is Jeff Bezos really like a “giant-brained alien?” In categorizing the Amazon founder’s unusual genius, Google (and former Amazon) engineer Steve Yegge compares Bezos and those like him to “hyper-intelligent aliens with a tangential interest in human affairs.” He is not trying to be disrespectful. He is just trying to explain how to go...
Updated: Scott Noteboom, the man who has been in charge of Yahoo’s data center operations since 2005, has now joined Apple as the iconic consumer electronics maker expands into the cloud. According to LinkedIn, Noteboom is now a “distinguished gentleman” at Apple as of this month after leaving his role as VP of data...
Like many of you I’ve been watching the steady stream of incremental Steve Jobs-related news stories for the past couple days, resulting from the imminent launch of Walter Issacson’s Jobs biography: Jobs came up with the name Apple while on a fruitarian diet, he gave up Christianity at age 13, he loved King Lear, he...
So I don’t seem biased, because I really don’t care, here’s the Call of Duty: Modern War 3 trailer. You know, the other first person shooter launching this fall, which has been mostly overshadowed by another. The trailer calls MW3 the most anticipated game in history but that’s certainly up for debate. However, Battlefield...
This stuff writes itself. At the grand opening of a new Windows Store in Seattle folks were camping out for most of the night only to stream in, breathlessly ready to partake in the one exciting product Microsoft could offer – a free concert by the Black Keys. I’m not here to bash Microsoft’s...
The Windows Phone 7 smartphone platform is now a yearling, today celebrating its 365-day anniversary of being on sale. Microsoft’s Windows Phone guru, Joe Belfiore, phrased it like this on Twitter: “Hey — HAPPY FIRST BIRTHDAY WP7! Our very first phones started selling (Europe only) 1 year ago! A lot’s happened in a year, eh?...
Now that Groupon’s IPO appears to be back on track, albeit at a wildly lowered valuation, it is a perfect time to take new stock of the company and apprise its future as a Chicago-based enterprise. This is not idle speculation; we here at TNW have for some time noted the long shadow that the company casts...
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Our coverage of the Web 2.0 Summit continues, and as soon as clips clear our editing suite we are bringing them to you. The quality of the 1,000 or so attendees at the event was unparalleled, and the panels and talks were little short of electrifying. As you have seen from the headlines and...
Digital music has transformed year after year since Shawn Fanning brought us Napster in 1999. The service allowed you to easily download music in MP3 format that you hadn’t paid for. Needless to say, the record industry wanted to shut it down immediately. It took them two years to do so. By 2001, the...