John ("Daring Fireball") Gruber is no Dan ("Fake Steve Jobs") Lyons. Thank goodness.
Credits: George Del Barrio (Gruber), Mark Coggins (Lyons)
At his prime -- when he was on the lam, a bored editor at Forbes by day covering boring IBM (IBM) press events and a swashbuckling parodist at night, one step ahead of Silicon Valley hounds desperate to discover his identity -- nobody was writing funnier tech copy than MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jul 23, 2010 7:23 AM ET
The Android-powered Nook now comes as an application on other Android devices.
Joining Kindle on Android, the Nook app looks to expand Barnes and Nobles' reach to millions more devices. Strange because the Nook device is Android powered itself – except that you can't install apps on it.
I noticed when reviewing the Samsung Galaxy S phones from T-Mobile (Vibrant) and AT&T (Captivate) that reading was so much easier on the Super MORE
Seth Weintraub - Jul 23, 2010 12:43 AM ET
How one app aims to change the way we look at the Web (and how the Web looks)
Flipboard table of contents
You know you are on to something when you break the Internet. Okay, so maybe it wasn't the entire Internet, but when Mike McCue launched his latest company the response from people eager to get the free iPad app was so great Flipboard couldn't accommodate everyone immediately.
McCue, most recently MORE
Michael V. Copeland, Senior Writer - Jul 22, 2010 8:29 PM ET
Trend Micro CEO Eva Chen explains how the media, a clothing manufacturer and a Chinese version of Wal-Mart will rock the tech world
By Shelley DuBois, reporter
Some of the companies that will change the way the world uses technology won't be tech companies at all, according to Eva Chen, co-founder and CEO of a web security company called Trend Micro.
She was speaking as part of a 3-3-3 series at this year's MORE
Jul 22, 2010 8:27 PM ET
Bringing on Sun Microsystems, BEA and Hyperion may look like small potatoes when they're done
by Laura Rich, contributor
Oracle (ORCL) will spend $70 billion in acquisitions over the next five years, Oracle president Charles Phillips said at the Brainstorm Fortune Tech conference in Aspen. "It's early in the game, and there's plenty left to do," he said.
Such a budget -- fueled by increased spending from enterprise customers -- would be a MORE
Jul 22, 2010 7:50 PM ET
The Facebook and Twitter explosions has changed how we communicate -- but isn't resulted in a massive ad spend. That's about to change.
The growth of social networks like Facebook, LinkedIn, social gaming sites like Zynga and services like Twitter are ripe for new forms of advertising as they occupy more and more of our online attention and time. What form that advertising will take is very much a work-in-progress concluded MORE
Michael V. Copeland, Senior Writer - Jul 22, 2010 7:44 PM ET
The game maker CEO makes the case for the TV as Internet platform in his latest dig against the "walled garden" console
by Laura Rich, contributor
If Bobby Kotick has his way, the couch potato will be back. Speaking at the Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference, the Activision Blizzard (ATVI) CEO laid out a case for moving all Internet activity to the television screen, where the company has a vested interest as its MORE
Jul 22, 2010 6:52 PM ET
HP stays true to its plans to build a tablet with Microsoft despite just having bought Palm
By Shelley DuBois, reporter
Adam Lashinsky, Todd Bradley and Jon Rubinstein at Brainstorm Tech. (Photo: Matt Slaby, Fortune)
Hewlett Packard has been hinting that it was going to come out with a fancy new tablet for some time. Bloggers have been questioning whether the company's new partnership with Palm would finally generate the MORE
Jul 22, 2010 6:30 PM ET
But four years ago Microsoft's quarterly revenue was 2.7 times Apple's. Now it's 2.2% larger.
Source: Company reports
When Apple (AAPL) reported quarterly revenue of $15.7 billion on Tuesday, there was a lot of speculation that this would be the quarter that it finally overtook its long-time rival.
But it was not to be -- at least not yet. Microsoft (MSFT) reported its fourth quarter earnings after the markets closed on Thursday MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jul 22, 2010 5:09 PM ET
Youtube.com/Music is Google's next step into the music business.
As I pontificated last month, Google already has a big music store and it is called YouTube. Today Google (GOOG) formalized that idea with a new gateway at http://youtube.com/music.
If you want easier ways to discover music on YouTube, just start here. Our revamped music page -- part of a redesign that started with our shows and movies pages -- showcases the most MORE
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