“Yay! Text party! Hey, lets text that cute Erik guy again! Ha ha LOL Bieber fever!” True, I’m as attached/addicted to/surgically grafted to my iPhone as anybody. Still, that doesn’t keep me from hypocritically going all Andy Rooney-rabid when I’m hanging out with people who can’t be bothered to participate in a conversation because they’re […]
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America’s Got Talent That Won’t Leave Its House
The line between the internet and TV blurred even more today when America’s Got Talent announced that, for the first time ever, they are now accepting applications via YouTube. It was only a month ago that AGT rolled through Portland, but surely that can’t have tapped out all of our homegrown star power, can it? […]
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Police Raid Gizmodo Over iPhone Leak
Wow. Remember the whole Gizmodo iPhone leak? Thing don’t look so good for Gizmodo, who were raided by the police Rapid Enforcement Allied Computer Team, which seized two servers and four computers from editor Jason Chen’s house. I guess those Apple guys are serious…
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I “Like” You
Yesterday Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the introduction of something called “Open Graph” and social networking took a step… in some direction. Introducing its “Like” button to an amalgam of websites around the Internet, Facebook now allows anyone with an account to “Like” a story, a website, or nearly anything they deem worth “Like”-ing and […]
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Facebook Privacy Freakout Du Jour
Seriously. Seriously? Facebook (they don’t need my stupid home page link) is fucking dominating on the internets and yet they just gotta keep meddling and pissing off their members? The Electronic Frontier Foundation reported yesterday: Today, Facebook removed its users’ ability to control who can see their own interests and personal information. Certain parts of […]
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New iPhone Model Leaked, Probably Real
This has been bouncing around the Internets all weekend, but for a while it seemed dubious. Now more evidence is coming out and it’s looking like the supposedly-lost-in-a-bar 4th generation iPhone that Gizmodo got their hands on is in fact real. (John Gruber notes that Apple considers this phone stolen, not lost, and that Gizmodo […]
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iPhone OS 4 Revealed!
Apple unveiled the 4th major version of their iPhone OS (and iPad and iPod Touch) this morning, touting over 100 new user features and over 1500 new developer APIs. And yes, you’ve been waiting for it for years, and those of you with weird, irrational hatred for the iPhone will need to find a new […]
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iPhone OS 4 to Be Revealed Thursday
Remember the iPad? Well, whatever you think about it (hate! love! hate! HATE!), forget it, because mere days after that massive product launch, Apple has announced that they’re holding an event THIS THURSDAY to give a “sneak peek” at the next version of the iPhone OS (which also powers the iPad and iPod Touch). OMGOMGOMG! […]
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Good Morning, iPad Reviews!
Several big-name tech journalists have had iPads for a week or more, and all their hands-on reviews are finally popping up. The general consensus is what we’ve been hearing a lot since the thing was unveiled: you don’t really get it until you’ve used one, and when you’ve used one, it’s pretty amazing. One surprise […]
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Time Is Running Out to Nominate Portland for Crazy Fast Internet from Google!
The deadline for nominating the city of Portland as a candidate for Google’s super-high-speed fiber network is TODAY at 5 pm. Google is talking about bringing internet with a near-unbelievable speed of 1000Mbit/sec to a select American city. If you’re interested in having Google bring fast internet to Portland, have you submitted a nomination yet? […]
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Facebook Has Officially Kicked Google’s Ass
Americans were just Facebookin’ their asses off last week, finally putting the social media giant over the Google mark for most viewed site in the country, according to a new report from Hitwise: It might be time to call your stockbroker.