Google UK has released the first issue of a new in-house magazine, entitled Think Quarterly.
The 64-page publication — Google calls it a book — is only available online. Readers can either browse in a Flash-based pseudo magazine format, flipping pages with their mouse, or can read web-optimised versions of each article.
The whole …
Happy birthday OS X!
Mac OS X is 10 years old today. The first official release, OS X 10.0, came out on March 24, 2001. And my, hasn’t it grown…
Link: The Next Web
Happy birthday Harry Houdini!
It’s also escapologist Houdini’s 137th birthday today, and Google is celebrating with an excellent doodle on its home page. How
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If you’ve ever played a successful Flash game called Crush the Castle, you’ll know how much fun it is to hurl virtual rocks at evil royal enemies with your trusty medieval trebuchet.
In fact, hurling rocks turns out to be so much fun that doing it on screen just isn’t enough. People want to hurl something real. People want …
Bertrand Serlet, the Senior Vice President of Mac Software Engineering — colloquially known as one of the fathers of Mac OS X — is leaving Apple, the company announced.
The move has sparked speculation that Apple’s future is much more about mobile devices than the desktop computers with which it built its reputation.
Serlet has …
If you’re running the latest version of Google’s Chrome web browser, you can now talk to the internet. It won’t listen, and it won’t do what you say, but it will recognize what words you’ve spoken. Which is a good start.
The beta of Chrome 11 includes support for a speech input technology, part of the HTML5 standard. That means that
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Throw away your iPad. Trash your Kindle. The future of reading is made of something far more innovative, and it’s called “paper.”
The flipback is, according to Patrick Kingsley at the UK Guardian, an ingenious new kind of printed book designed for the iGeneration. “Could this kill the Kindle?” the headlines asks. Err, no.
The pages …
Good morning! Here’s this morning’s top tech headlines.
Amazon Could Become A Huge Tablet Player
At Business Insider, Dan Frommer wrote an excellent and insightful piece exploring the possibilities that lie ahead for Amazon. It already has an online store; it already makes good tablet hardware (albeit with limited functionality);
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Apple CEO Steve Jobs must attend court for two hours to answer questions from lawyers in an antitrust lawsuit, a judge ruled.
Jobs, who is currently on medical leave from the company, surprised the tech world by making an appearance on stage for the official launch of the iPad 2 earlier this month.
The court hearing is part of an
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Verizon doesn’t want to buy Sprint, despite this week’s merger between AT&T and T-Mobile.
Verizon CEO Daniel Mead told Reuters:
“We’re not interested in Sprint. We don’t need them.”
The $39 billion AT&T-Mobile deal, announced on Sunday but expected to take months to complete, puts the newly combined company at the the top of the
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It’s official: the iPad 2 will go on sale in 25 countries this coming Friday, March 22.
Those countries are Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland …
Microsoft vs Barnes & Noble: Who Really Wins?
Microsoft didn’t hold back in its opening salvo:
“We have tried for over a year to reach licensing agreements with Barnes & Noble, Foxconn and Inventec. Their refusals to take licenses leave us no choice but to bring legal action to defend our innovations and fulfill our responsibility to
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Remember this guy?
If you’ve spent any time at all on the internet in the last few years, you’re probably responsible for one of the 18 million (now approaching 19 million) views of his video, mashing together years’ worth of self-portraits into a few minutes of thrashing hair and regular shaving.
His name is Noah Kalina, he’s a
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