Apple announced its Push Notification system during the 2008 WWDC Keynote , pitching it as a more efficient alternative to allowing third-party apps to run in the background. It was scheduled to ship
Sarah Parmenter 17 Dec ember 2010 Published in Code Although not a new phenomenon, media queries seem to be getting a lot attention online recently and for the right reasons too – it’s great to be abl
It’s no use pretending that what has obviously happened has not in fact happened. The upper 1 percent of Americans are now taking in nearly a quarter of the nation’s income every year. In terms of wea
I've been to so many big earth-shaking events from BigTechCo's -- today's Google thing is making me yawn, while my eyes glaze over in boredom. Here's how products like this are conceived: 1. We need t
Illustration by TOM BACHTELL In the ten years since American soldiers first landed in Afghanistan, their official purpose has oscillated between building and destroying. The Americans initially went i
Saving 101 Grow your savings with this guide that will walk you through how to get started, how to set goals, and how to track your progress. Saving 101 Chapter 01: How to Start Saving Money Saving 10
Jef Raskin, my father, (below) helped develop the Macintosh , and I was recently looking at some of his old documents and came across his February 16, 1981 memo detailing the genesis of the Macintosh.
I am a disagreeable person, which is to say that I cannot stand to be in a room full of people agreeing with me. It gives me the creeps. I cannot resist the urge to play devil's advocate, to argue the
Mikhail Gorbachev should never have become the Soviet premier. When he was six years old, his grandfather was taken in the middle of the night, a victim of one of Stalin's purges. And he grew up in St
Two Great User Interfaces On his Surprisingly Free podcast last week, Jerry Brito had a great interview with Chicago law professor Joseph Isenbergh about the competition between open and closed system
If you looked at the banners hanging in the lobby of Moscone West last week, you would have found a very important but perhaps somewhat subtle statement staring you right in the face. At first glance,
"Mr. Williams says that all successful businesspeople make enemies along the way." – The New York Times , October 30, 2010 Advertisement Advertisement How Twitter's owners and top executives say Twitt
On Monday, Apple unveiled iCloud , a new service for remote storage of user data. Some people, including our own Jon Stokes , are skeptical of Apple's chances of getting iCloud to work at scale. And h
Google evangelist Tim Bray, whose Twitter jihad against Apple’s “curated computing” dissected here earlier, says : Kontra genuinely loathes Google right down to the ground. This, incredibly, is the same man who started his Google “evangelism” gig with the words “ I hate it ” referring to Apple and…
Wii U lo It looks like the product of a fevered fanboy wetdream. A 6.2-inch touchscreen, surrounded by dual analog sticks and oodles of buttons. Like the portable hardcore gamers wish Nintendo made. B
Today’s was a jam-packed keynote. Apple announced a lot of news; there is much to talk and think about. But the key line was when Steve Jobs, describing iCloud replacing iTunes as your digital hub, sa
Before today, I knew that a reading-list feature similar to Instapaper’s core bookmark-saving purpose was being added to Safari in Lion, and wrote a big blog post about its potential impact on Instapa
In an otherwise elegant and well-integrated operating system, the notifications user interface in iOS 4.x feels like a wart — a tacked-on afterthought that offers a bare minimum of usefulness. Competitors have jumped all over this weakness. An early Microsoft Windows Phone ad implies a strategic…
Back when invitations to MLKSHK’s closed beta were making their way through Twitter, many people I follow created an account, clicked around for a while, and never returned again. Now that the site is
It's About The Hashbangs 28 MAY Before I get started here’s the disclaimer: The opinions expressed in this rant are my own personal opinions on web development and do not represent the views of my emp
Barack Obama came to Washington just six years ago, having spent his professional life as a part-time lawyer, part-time law professor, and part-time state legislator in Illinois. As an undergraduate,
It takes only a couple of minutes from the moment we enter the gas station for someone to recognize him. A biker in a leather jacket and a black knit cap spots him as he approaches the register, does
From the moment Sarah Palins acceptance speech electrified the Republican convention, she was seen as an unbending, hard-charging, red-meat ideologueto which soon was added thin-skinned and…
‘It just works.’ It’s a common phrase that Apple and its loyalists use — we all have a general understanding of what it means, but how do you achieve it? I asked [Marco Arment](http://www.marco.org/)
J. Murphy / City Limits T hree years ago , in a New York Times article detailing her bid to become head of the American Federation of Teachers union, Randi Weingarten boasted that despite my calls for
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