A growing number of enthusiast photographers are traveling with iPads instead of laptops. The lighter weight, thinner body, and WiFi + Cellular connectivity of an iPad (if you go that route) makes for a good companion on the road. But just because you leave the computer at home doesn’t mean that you…

6:30AM BST 11 Oct 2012 About ten years ago, I went to the rather posh wedding of a couple in their forties. The guests were a mix of judges, landed gentry, ex-officers and other red trouser types, and their wives. It was not my usual crowd, but I was a plus one, and the mix of good champagne and bad…

The euro crisis EARLIER today, a friend sent me a note from Louis-Vincent Gave of GaveKal Research (sorry, no link) on how the ECB could preserve the euro without doing anything to offend German sensibilities. Mr Gave suggests that the central bank should stop buying assets and start selling…

Two fathers The Mac is a platform in transition. In Lion, OS X began shedding the well-worn trappings of traditional desktop computing at an accelerated rate. This trend continues in Mountain Lion. Where Lion stumbled , Mountain Lion regroups and tries again —while still forging bravely ahead in…

Richard Perry/The New York Times Ken Segall was part of the advertising team that came up with the name iMac. When you hear about Apple, you mostly hear about the top executives like the late Steve Jobs, his early sidekick Steve Wozniak or the legendary designer Jony Ive. But you probably haven’t…

It took me a few days to finish reading an article about how we’re all letting ourselves feel too damn busy. I should have seen that one coming. The piece in question was a New York Times post last Saturday called “The ‘Busy’ Trap.” In it, writer and cartoonist Tim Kreider condemned a cult of…

Anxiety: We worry. A gallery of contributors count the ways. If you live in America in the 21st century you’ve probably had to listen to a lot of people tell you how busy they are. It’s become the default response when you ask anyone how they’re doing: “Busy!” “ So busy.” “ Crazy busy.” It is,…

[Originally published January 20, 2012.] - - - Lo, in the twilight days of the second year of the second decade of the third millennium did a great darkness descend over the wireless internet connectivity of the people of 276 Ferndale Street in the North-Central lands of Iowa. For many years, the…

John Paton, the MediaNews chief, notoriously said the industry needed to "stop listening to newspaper people." Matthew Staver for The New York Times Last week, John Paton met with executives of the MediaNews Group, the second-largest newspaper chain by circulation in the country, home to papers like…

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Last week, in the course of reporting articles for Newsweek on the death of Steve Jobs, I spent two hours on the phone with Steve Wozniak, Apple’s co-founder. Woz reminisced about his friendship with 16-year-old Steve Jobs, their early days listening to Dylan bootlegs and what it was like as Apple…

‘I’m surrounded by technology that looks good and works well because others followed where Apple led’ Was it salesmanship or engineering? Creativity or ruthlessness? Or was Steve Jobs simply gifted with vision and impeccable taste? Whatever the true source of his success, there was more than a touch…

It's a must-read. RT @joshuatopolsky Moving thoughts from @waltmossberg on his friendship with Steve Jobs. http://t.co/IK5l7tIm

By me @ Guardian: Apple insiders remember life working for Steve Jobs http://t.co/OgcBurpG #fb

A restaurant in Luxembourg. To understand the link to Amazon's Kindle, you'll have to read the article. I 'd suspect that when given the opportunity we all can appreciate what a skilled individual can do in any human endeavour, whether that's from restoring an old building, to preparing a fabulous…