Judge Not By What They Do, But Rather By How They Spin
Avram Piltch of Laptop magazine, talking to Li Qiang, founder of China Labor Watch:“Dell and Hewlett Packard are not doing as good as Apple is
doing right now,” Li Said. “But when we talk about publicity
and public relations, it’s another...
Judge Not By What They Do, But Rather By How They Spin
Avram Piltch of Laptop magazine, talking to Li Qiang, founder of China Labor Watch:“Dell and Hewlett Packard are not doing as good as Apple is
doing right now,” Li Said. “But when we talk about publicity
and public relations, it’s another...
Apple Updates iBooks Author With Clarified EULA
Matthew Panzarino:Apple has updated its iBooks Author app in order to clarify the language of its End User License Agreement. The changes to the EULA clarify that Apple does indeed intend the packaged product to be sold on the iBookstore only, ...
First
Horace Dediu:Apple reached 75% of profit share, nearly 40% of revenue share and 9% of units share.Apple and Samsung combined for about 91% of profits with RIM third at 3.7%, HTC fourth at 3.0% and Nokia last at 1.8% of a $15 billion total for t...
In Praise of Cheap Labor
Paul Krugman, writing for Slate back in 1997:Such moral outrage is common among the opponents of globalization
— of the transfer of technology and capital from high-wage to
low-wage countries and the resulting growth of labor-intensive
Thir...
Planned Parenthood Action Center
If you’re as disappointed as I am with the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation’s decision to drop funding for breast cancer screening at Planned Parenthood, do what I did: donate to Planned Parenthood.(Cupertino-area readers, take not...
iTunes Store Credit 20 Percent Off
The good news: Best Buy is selling iTunes gift cards at 80 cents on the dollar.The bad news: you have to shop at Best Buy. ★
Microsoft Pushes for Plugin-Free Web
John Hrvatin from the Internet Explorer team:The transition to a plug-in free Web is happening today. Any
site that uses plug-ins needs to understand what their customers
experience when browsing plug-in free. Lots of Web browsing
today happens o...
Backpedalling
Shawn King on Violet Blue’s odd response to having it pointed out that the Macworld/iWorld “booth babe” she wrote about was not a booth babe:All is not lost. I have a solution for Violet Blue and ZDNet.
First, offer a public ap...
Caviar and Champagne
This week’s episode of America’s second-best podcast features discussion regarding Macworld/iWorld, the evolution and future of cameras and camera makers, and Apple’s Chinese manufacturing partners.Brought to you by FreshBooks and ...
Zuckerberg’s Share
Nick Bilton and Evelyn Rusli, reporting for the NYT on who’s profiting from the Facebook IPO:Mr. Zuckerberg, 27, has 533.8 million shares, worth $28.4 billion
based on a company valuation of $100 billion, or $53 a share. He
also has undispu...
