This is part one in a series on last week’s iPad event. Part 1: Whither Liberal Arts? | Part 2: The Missing “Why” of the iPad | Part 3: The Magical iPad Steve Jobs closed the Janu…
In mobile, particularly in consumer markets, there has been an ongoing debate about when or if Android will become the first platform that sophisticated startups develop for. Often times, this argument is wrongly centered around vanity metrics for Android such as worldwide shipments or installed base of each platform. The reality is that platform constraints […]
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BBC News - Calorie burner: How much better is standing up than sitting?
Studies have claimed major health benefits for standing for much of the day as opposed to sitting. What's the difference in calories, asks Michael Mosley.
Marko Karppinen, part of a digital-publication platform company, argues that Apple’s Newsstand is a bad place for publications to be. Glenn Fleishman, publisher of The Magazine, can’t disagree.
In a memorable scene from the 1998 film Pleasantville (in which two 1998 teen-agers are transported into the black-and-white world of a 1950s TV show), the father of the TV-perfect Parker family re…