Jason Snell looks at Apple's iPhone OS 4.0 event and its shots at Google and Adobe, and what it all means.

Scottish novelist (action, thriller, adventure). Author of the KESTREL series.

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When the gadget blog Gizmodo paid $5,000 for an iPhone prototype, questions were raised about publishers providing money for information.

Why the rules on copyright need to return to their roots

Another scandal, another Gawker story, and another payday for the person who sold Gawker the news. No big deal, says Nick Denton, the blog impresario: We'll keep doing it.

Google is trying very hard to get developers to build apps for Android app phones.

Reviewing Network Management Software, Flow Analyzers and Collectors, IPAM Software and more.

A new study published in Science this week imaged human brains as they …

Over the last two months we have been working on several iPad projects: two news applications, a social network, and a word processor. We worked on iPad projects without ever having touched an iPad. One client asked us to “start working on that tablet thing” before we even knew whether the iPad was real.

Opinion: iPhone OS 4. market.

The business model of journalism is collapsing. Thousands of journalists have lost their jobs, newspapers are folding, and major dailies are in bankruptcy. This week we hear a discussion about government subsidies and new funding models to save the Fourth Estate.

Notes and observations, five days in.

When Apple’s iPad was announced in January, I immediately posted a reaction . Now that the device is out, it seems worth revisiting the subject. Do You Feel Like A Hypocrite Yet? First thing’s first. Back in January, I wrote that the iPad wasn’t something “I want to bring into my home”. But rig

Don't spend money on marketing, do offer flexibility and data exporting to eliminate buyers' regret, make sure to capitalize on and value goodwill, and only charge for things that are hard to do. These were the lessons of successful startups at today's Freemium Summit.

If you’re a company considering using social media tools for business communications, marketing, sales, etc, you’re no doubt wondering about how much time it will add to your already busy day, especially if you’re a smaller business. The answer varies depending on how you’re using it, how many platforms you’re engaging, your goals, and more. […]

"Lots of times the families will go down to Kinko's," the funeral director tells me. "They can do a memorial folder thing down there." Do you help them get photos off Flickr, off Facebook? "We don't really help with that."

There are a few ways in which Google's Nexus One phone improves on the iPhone, and that should serve as useful feedback for Apple. Jason Snell spent a week with a Nexus One and has the details.