Historically, Apple’s sales to business and government buyers of personal computers have been, in a word, minuscule. To put a number on it, Forrester published data where the estimated value of those
Matt is the co-founder and CEO of Neighborhood Goods . In his spare time, amongst other things, Matt is co-founder of not-for-profit retail concept, Unbranded, co-host of Bonanza! on Relay FM, a membe
This is how the designers and engineers at Apple roll: They roll . They take something small, simple, and painstakingly well considered. They ruthlessly cut features to derive the absolute minimum core product they can start with. They polish those features to a shiny intensity. At an anticipated…
The Russian Soyuz program is the longest-running spaceflight program — variations of the spacecraft have flown consistently since 1966. It isn’t perfect; big technologies like spacecraft rarely are. T
So everyone's excited about the frickin' Wii . That's how I find myself saying the name of Nintendo's upcoming game console most of the time: with an expletive as a prefix. Yes, I'm sure we're all slo
By Bob Parks
(Corrects in the second paragraph the tension used to find the sneaker's right balance, and in the fourth paragraph the year the sneaker was patented.)
Late one night in August 1997, 54-year-old inventor Lenn Rockford Hann placed two bottles of Gatorade near Concourse F of Chicago…
Authors: Ralf Klessen, Simon Glover, Paul Clark First Author’s Institution: Zentrum für Astronomie der Universität Heidelberg, Institut für Theoretische Astrophysik One of the primary reasons I am int
The iEconomy How the U.S. Lost Out on iPhone Work People flooded Foxconn Technology with résumés at a 2010 job fair in Henan Province, China. Credit... Donald Chan/Reuters When Barack Obama joined Sil
I love stories. by, Panic co-founder Is it just me? I mean, do you ever wonder about the stories behind everyday products? What names were Procter & Gamble considering before they finally picked "Swif
16th Jan 2012 The Life and Death of Camino By July 2002 Mac OS X was just over one year old, Safari was still several months away, and very few web browsers took advantage of the innovative new featur
The first computer I ever owned was a laptop. It was a Dell Inspiron that I bought after high school to take to college. It lasted a few years until my roommate bought a PowerBook G4, and that was the
I received a lot of feedback on my recent post on iOS multitasking. I'm sorry I can't respond to everyone who emailed - there were dozens. I thought it would be worthwhile to look at the process in more detail. I used Instruments (part of the Xcode package) to inspect the free memory on the iPad as…
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How Many Stephen Colberts Are There? Stephen Colbert dressing for a rehearsal of “The Colbert Report.” Credit... Todd Heisler/The New York Times There used to be just two Stephen Colberts, and they we
Readers Point the Way Readers provide advice for future public editor columns. I’m looking for reader input on whether and when New York Times news reporters should challenge “facts” that are asserted
All we know for certain about Apple’s upcoming press event on January 19 is what it says on the invitation: It’s at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City, and it’s focused on education. Sure, an educ
Email. It’s a technology that, once upon a time, excited us. It was an incredible feeling to get a message from someone without physically seeing them; however, as time has passed, email has become an
Brian Deagon’s ( previously-linked ) pessimistic Apple predictions for 2012 : The Samsung Galaxy smartphone seems cooler. With Google’s Androidplatform now the fastest-growing mobile OS, Apple’s softw
Why do I hate Android? It’s definitely one of the questions I get asked most often these days. And most of those that don’t ask probably assume it’s because I’m an iPhone guy. People see negative take
Try Google Workspace at No Cost Get a business email, all the storage you need, video conferencing, and more. SIGN UP Editor’s note: On February 28, 2019, we updated the ‘For developers’ section with
" I can't wake up one morning and say, 'Screw the letter B,'" type designer Matthew Carter told me last year when I interviewed him for the Economist , just after he had received a MacArthur Foundatio
Photograph by Anders Adermark Tomorrow, CERN will be webcasting a talk on the latest results in its search for the Higgs boson, a particle that is theorized to provide other particles with mass. The d
My takedown of the poor iPad experiences offered by major magazine publishers resonated with the audience. It is obvious that many people are not happy with the current experience offered in the tablet space. What is also apparent is that they want to be. I am not the only want who looks forward to…
Reading magazines on the iPad is an exercise in frustration. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. As great a device and, more importantly, platform as Apple has created, magazine publishers have done nothing short of fumble the snap in their own end zone.
I read a lot of magazines. They are great…
A visualization of the Shard's complete spire. Photo illustration by Sellar group Upon its completion in May 2012, the 1,017 foot tall skyscraper Shard London Bridge will be the tallest building in th
I admit it. I’m one of those jerks who you meet in the pub that bores you to tears about how “on so many levels” the iPhone is the epitome of man-made beauty, when all you want to do is drink your pint and flirt with Jenny from accounting. But, in my defense, I am a designer; and all those thousands…
ON AN UNSEASONABLY WARM day in the middle of March, I traveled from New Hampshire to the moist, dim sanctuary of the New England Aquarium, hoping to touch an alternate reality. I came to meet Athena, the aquarium’s forty-pound, five-foot-long, two-and-a-half-year-old giant Pacific octopus. For me,…
Apple is a cipher, and its reasons for making changes often a mystery. A couple of days ago, the company updated its iBooks software for iOS devices to version 1.5, and added a de-skeuomorphizing full
When President Obama and two-thirds of the world’s leaders gather in New York City, it is up to the U.S. Secret Service to keep them all safe. Granted unprecedented access, our author tells the story of how the agency pulls off the most complicated security event of the year, from…
"We were asked to hate everything Indian," said 26-year-old Arnab (shown in his Delhi flat). Photographs: Sanjit Das/Panos Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and
For the past week I’ve been using a Galaxy Nexus on loan from Verizon as my primary phone. The Galaxy Nexus is the Android world’s version of the iPhone 4S. The software on it is the latest and greate
The latest app from Information Architects, [iA Writer for Mac](http://www.iawriter.com/), has been highly anticipated since iA launched their incredibly popular iA Writer app on the iPad. Writer is i
When you unboxed my hypothetical Apple Television Set you would find three devices inside. There would be a lovely large display panel with an impossibly thin bezel (unadorned by an Apple logo). It’d
It’s high time people stopped kvetching about Wikipedia, which has long been the best encyclopedia available in English, and started figuring out what it portends instead. For one thing, Wikipedia is forcing us to confront the paradox inherent in the idea of learners as “doers, not recipients.” If…
They did it for the simplest of reasons: adventure. Three friends, on a drunken dare, set out in a dinghy for a nearby island. But when the gas ran out and they drifted into barren waters, their biggest threat wasn’t the water or the ocean—it was each other.
It seems that Americans are in the midst of a raging epidemic of mental illness, at least as judged by the increase in the numbers treated for it. The tally of those who are so disabled by mental disorders that they qualify for Supplemental Security Income (SSI) or Social Security Disability…
When John Jeremiah Sullivan and his wife leveraged everything they had to buy a big brick neo-Colonial in Wilmington, North Carolina (the Hollywood of the South!), their realtor made an irresistible proposal: By allowing a popular teen TV show to film at the house a few days a month, they could…
TL;DR: Go download the alpha if you grok TextMate. I wasn’t going to write about TextMate 2, because I figured others would do it better. One long-time TextMate user from whom I’ve gleaned all sorts of TextMate wisdom (not to mention enjoyment) is Dr. Drang, whose blog is a can’t-miss if you’re even…
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