Steve Jobs’s surprisingly low-tech parenting
In a fairly surprising revelation, New York Times writer Nick Bilton reports that Apple co-founder Steve Jobs didn’t let his children use the iPad when it first came out, and… Read more »
Your reading behaviour is being monitored
The Wall Street Journal reported last week on the extent to which big corporations are looking over our shoulders when we read: The major new players in e-book publishing—Amazon, Apple… 2 / Read more »
Agency Pricing: Did Amazon see it coming?
Here’s a juicy tidbit from the Department of Justice suit against Apple and five of the country’s largest book publishers: despite weeks of negotiations over agency pricing between Apple and… Read more »
Are Tablet E-Reader Apps Too Distracting?
At first glance, the ability to read e-books on smartphones and tablets seems like a triumph of technology. Streamlining the experience by eliminating the need for a specific device, they… Read more »
Apple has surprising response to new report about Chinese supplier
Last week This American Life broadcast a big program focusing on Apple and its use of Chinese supplier Foxconn. (A story we’ve been following since April 2010, including here, here,… Read more »
Which new tablet is better for watching movies?
Barnes & Noble is debuting its new Nook Color tablet today. At least that’s what tech reporters are saying about the Monday meeting with the media that B&N has scheduled.… Read more »