In what is widely expected to be a game-changer in the mobile phone industry, Apple Inc. today unveiled a new "killer app" that will enable users to call people on their iPhones and talk to them.
I had heard rumors before that an Apple store was coming to my town, but on Saturday, yes, kids, an Apple store opened in Paris. And I had to see it.
Technology has grown by such leaps and bounds since 1969 that it's hard to conceive how things were before we all had access to computers.
There is no cliché I hear more, and that I hate more, than the vague, poorly-defined and generally ill-conceived notion that "execution" is more important than "the idea."
The good news is, we're heading toward a period of incredible creativity in news and entertainment, with a new medium that is far superior to ink on paper.
How do we navigate the Recovery from Hell? The answer I suggest -- for the entire country -- is the same as it was in 2000 for a pre- iTunes and pre-iPod Apple: we innovate our way out.
The reason is, Apple is not really a company -- it's a cult. Imagine what it might be like if the Church of Scientology went into the consumer electronics business, and you'd have a pretty good idea of how we operate.
The guy whose band, Dire Straits, sold 120 million records has made a CD that will be appreciated mostly by the smallest cohort of music lovers: smart, literate grownups who can read without moving their lips.
In an effort to create a popular new beverage for the masses, Vitaminwater is letting Facebook users pick its next flavor. Vitaminwater will monitor...
Apple will be holding another of its "special events," this one having something to do with music (we think).
Fox will begin interweaving Twitter into the fabric of its shows. Specifically, Fox is scheduled to air "tweet-peats" of shows like Fringe and ...
The Pirate Bay was taken offline. The torrent sharing network was shut down yesterday by local Swedish authorities yesterday, as Global ...
We are left with a picture of a China that is full of contradictions and conflicting trends, of liberalizing desire to become an open society mixed with a strong strain of conservative attachment, of kitsch and real splendor existing side-by-side.
The National Football League has banned players from using Twitter. The NFL noted that players who use the micro-blogging network from meetings, coa...
News Corp Chief Digital Officer Jon Miller told a conference that videogames are the "missing piece of the equation" for companies like media conglo...
In an age where you can log onto your laptop and, within minutes, zoom in on the front door of a stranger's house, our culture suffers the collective delusion that it has the "right" to know everything about everybody.
Nielsen is reporting that over 31 million people viewed Michael Jackson's funeral on television. While the number is very high, it does not take int...
Offering CEOs big money to come and run companies does not guarantee great leadership. In fact, the practice may attract the wrong leaders altogether.
Apple succeeds because it violates every large-company, mass-consumer convention.
The Kindle is for the book-lover who might buy a first, a signed or a special edition. It is lingerie. It is a box of chocolates or a bottle of double-malt. Competition will drive it to adapt, and it will.
Apple CEO Steve Jobs is back in Cupertino -- for good, we hope -- after a six-month medical leave.
