Apple Passes Microsoft to Become the World’s Biggest Tech Company

Staff / Truthdig May 27, 2010 Apple fan-boys and -girls, rejoice. The iCorporation is now worth more than the dreaded Microsoft. But don't get too excited: Bill Gates' gang has a few ideas to get back in the game, and some bloggers claim that Google, whose Android is outselling the iPhone, "has leapfrogged" Apple in terms of innovation. (continued) Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

What Apple’s Lost iPhone Says About Access Journalism

Staff / Truthdig Apr 21, 2010 It goes like this: A 27-year-old Apple employee left what appears to be the next iPhone on a bar stool. Someone picked up the super-secret device and, long story short, sold it to a gadget blog. And thus a corporation’s highly sophisticated control over the journalists who cover it briefly and symbolically imploded. (continued) Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

iPad™ Wins Nobel Peace Prize

Andy Borowitz / Truthdig Apr 12, 2010 "We didn't want to fall prey to all of the hype surrounding the iPad™," said Nobel committee chairperson Gustav Traavik, who waited at the Apple store in Oslo for over two hours to buy the device. "But it is sweet." Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

WSJ: Apple Working on 2 New Phones

Staff / Truthdig Mar 30, 2010 Citing unnamed sources, The Wall Street Journal reports that Apple is working on not one but two new iPhones, including a device that will run on Verizon’s network. Engadget says one device could be called the iPhone HD. (continued) Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Prudish Apple Bans Bikinis

Staff / Truthdig Feb 23, 2010 If you're looking for sex appeal, there isn't an app for that. Apple is killing applications on its iPhone and iPod Touch that show women in such obscene dress as beachwear. Despite parental controls, mature-content warnings and a lack of anything truly provocative, the company apparently decided things had gotten too raunchy. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

iToys [A Cartoon From China]

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iWTF

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The Google Phone Is Here Again

Peter Z. Scheer / Truthdig Jan 6, 2010 Google is quietly taking over the phone market for reasons that have little to do with its latest "superphone." Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

iRape

Staff / Truthdig Jan 4, 2010 The dirty little secret of the consumer electronics boom is that a lot of the sexy little gadgets you use every day are made from minerals that help fund what this video says is "the deadliest conflict in the world since the holocaust." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Can Gadgets Save the Magazine?

Staff / Truthdig Dec 9, 2009 What to do when your business and the medium it's printed on are disintegrating into pulp? Form a consortium, of course. Condé Nast, Hearst, Time, News Corp. and something called Meredith have banded together to crack this nut with a common digital format, shared innovation and maybe even a new gadget or two. (continued) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

The Phone Made Out of Corn

Peter Z. Scheer / Truthdig Oct 12, 2009 The Samsung Reclaim is an odd little device that raises the question: Why isn't everything made out of corn? Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

iPhones for Everybody?

Staff / Truthdig Jun 9, 2009 Apple unveiled a faster, more powerful version of its popular iPhone Monday, but the bigger news is that the company slashed the price of the current model to $99. That makes a robust portable computing experience available to a much bigger crowd, assuming they can handle AT&T's horrendously overpriced service. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )