Top Items:
Jon Stokes / Ars Technica:
The A4 and the A8: secrets of the iPad's brain — Most companies, when they go to the enormous expense of designing a complex chip, tell everyone about it. Even a company like Sun or IBM, whose chips are used only in their own computers, unveil the details of their new processors …
Discussion:
9 to 5 Mac
Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
The Raging Septuagenarian — Taking on the Times, Google, and, in a sense, his own children, Rupert Murdoch is not going gently into the night. — On Saturday, January 9, Rupert Murdoch was on his Boeing 737 returning to New York from a business trip to Los Angeles when he learned …
Rob Hayes / Permanent Record:
How Do You Solve a Problem Like Patzer? — It was with bemusement that I read how Mint.com founder Aaron Patzer has just been “verbed.” — The story goes that when Mint.com sold to Intuit for $170 million, they left way too much money on table because the company clearly had the opportunity to go for the billion dollar plus win.
Thanks:joshk
RELATED:
Steve Lohr / New York Times:
Redrawing the Route to Online Privacy — ON the Internet, things get old fast. One prime candidate for the digital dustbin, it seems, is the current approach to protecting privacy on the Internet. — It is an artifact of the 1990s, intended as a light-touch policy to nurture innovation in an emerging industry.
Brooke Crothers / CNET News:
HP updates ultraportable with Core i5, i7 chips — Hewlett-Packard is refreshing its business ultraportable laptop and hybrid laptop-tablet with Intel Core i5 and i7 processors, becoming one of the first major PC makers to squeeze these powerful processors into a small, lightweight design.
Mike Elgan / Computerworld:
15 iPad mysteries remain — Think you know all about Apple's iPad? Here's what we don't know — Computerworld - Steve Jobs is such a great salesman that he can actually give us a sense of familiarity with something we don't know anything about. Apple's iPad is a perfect example.
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Conde Nast's iPad Plan Gets Caught in the Apple-Adobe Crossfire — The Wired iPad app Conde Nast showed off this month looks great. But the chances that the publisher will give its other magazines the same treatment don't look promising. — Conde is still creating a digital version of its tech magazine for the device.
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Twitter Rolling Out New Web Site To Kill TweetDeck And Other Third-Party Clients — TechCrunch's MG Siegler spots an interesting tweet from Twitter engineer Alex Payne. — It seems Twitter's had enough with other folks taking control of millions of Twitter users (and the money they represent).
RELATED:
Tim Stevens / Engadget:
Smartphone GPS shootout: Google, Ovi, and Verizon go head-to-head — It wasn't long ago that getting somewhere required a map on paper. You know, something you bought or that came groaning out of your tired old printer. GPS navigation units made those maps obsolete, but now they too are under threat.
Wall Street Journal:
Google, Microsoft Spar Over Antitrust — Seeking $335,000 in unpaid advertising bills, Google Inc. filed suit against a small Internet site in Ohio in October. The complaint was so routine it was just two sentences long. — Google never expected the response it got.
Rafat Ali / paidContent:
Mags To Their Digital Units: Drop Dead — Funny how the parallel universe works: the same magazine publishers who were touting digital last year because, well, print sucked, are now going to spend about $90 million talking about how print rules as the economy shows signs of an uptick.
Kieren McCarthy / The Register:
US government rescinds ‘leave internet alone’ policy — Strickling speaking, the Naughties are dead — The US government's policy of leaving the Internet alone is over, according to Obama's top official at the Department of Commerce. — Instead, an “Internet Policy 3.0” …
Nick Douglas / lalawag:
Chatroulette Means Nothing, You Pretentious Media Commentator — Every web site that's popular, at all, and gets written about in major media, has to be the f**kin' zeitgiest, what-it-all-MEANS, funhouse-mirror-to-the-internet sign of the times. Can't it just be a thing? — Chatroulette.
