Ubuntu Wants Your Phone to Be Your Computer Too
Canonical's new Ubuntu for phones pitch promises your handset turns into a full desktop when docked. I like the idea more than the two-year timeline.
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Schmidt Picked a Weird Week to Visit Pyongyang
While CES dominates every headline this week, Google's Eric Schmidt is flying into North Korea on a private trip with Bill Richardson — a much weirder story than curved TVs.
Qualcomm's CES Keynote Was a Variety Show, Not a Product Announcement
A same-night reaction to Qualcomm's bloated, celebrity-stuffed keynote that opened CES 2013, and a complaint about product news getting buried under stagecraft.
Staying Up Too Late for Nvidia's Weird CES Surprise
Nvidia kicked off CES pre-show night with a weird little handheld called Project Shield, and I stayed up too late watching the liveblog to have thoughts about it.
Nokia's Surprisingly Good Morning
Nokia's stock jumped hard on better-than-expected preliminary Lumia numbers, and I've got some thoughts on the phone, the exclusivity deal, and the whole "burning platform" saga.
The Part of the Fiscal Cliff Bill Nobody's Blog Covered
The fiscal cliff headlines are all about tax brackets, but the part that actually matters to small dev shops and hardware startups is the R&D tax credit renewal nobody's covering.
The Bug Hiding Inside a Billion YouTube Views
Gangnam Style hitting a billion views on YouTube almost broke the site's view counter, thanks to a very old, very boring bug: 32-bit integer overflow.
Merry Christmas, Your Login Server Is Down
Xbox Live and PSN both got hit with outages over Christmas, and my brother-in-law's first console ever picked the worst possible day to need a login server.
Instagram's Fine Print (And My Sister's Panic)
Instagram's new terms of service set off a genuine panic this week, including my own sister's, over who gets to use your photos and why I still host mine myself.
Why I'm Backing Up My Instagram Photos Tonight
Instagram just announced new terms letting businesses use your photos in ads without telling you, so I spent tonight exporting my whole library instead of doing actual work.
Notes From the Nexus 4 Refresh Trenches
Google keeps restocking the Nexus 4 for ten minutes at a time before it vanishes again — some notes from the refresh-button trenches, plus why the missing LTE doesn't actually bother me.
Refresh, Refresh, Sold Out: My Nexus 4 Saga Continues
Three failed attempts at buying a Nexus 4 during Google's endless restock cycle, plus a smaller gripe about how NASA's big Curiosity rover reveal turned out to be soil chemistry instead of the Mars bombshell everyone was hoping for.