2011: The Year of the Tablet-Apple’s Tablet (And Analyst Notes About It) (John Paczkowski/Digital Daily)
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:2011: The Year of the Tablet-Apple’s Tablet (And Analyst Notes About It) — Much as they were in 2010, tablet sales will be a high point of 2011-but even more so. According to Caris & Co. analyst Robert Cihra, tablet sales will more than triple, rising 226 percent to 54 million [...]
Emotional Rescue (John Gruber/Daring Fireball)
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:Emotional Rescue — There was an interesting thread of iOS-vs.-Android news and punditry over the weekend, starting with this report by Seth Weintraub for Fortune: … In other words, $100 Android phones within the next year. — I’m not sure how this qualifies as news, though.
jQuery Mobile Alpha 1 Released (John Resig/jQuery Mobile)
John Resig / jQuery Mobile:jQuery Mobile Alpha 1 Released — Today we’re pleased to announce the first alpha release of the jQuery Mobile project. jQuery Mobile is a user interface framework, built on top of jQuery, designed to simplify the process of building applications that target mobile devices.
Einstein Would Have Used a Mac. John Lennon, Too. (John Paczkowski/Digital Daily)
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:Einstein Would Have Used a Mac. John Lennon, Too. — Steve Jobs in a turtleneck and shorts? — What a great bit of history this is, and a nice Friday diversion. In the video embedded below, the Apple (AAPL) CEO introduces the company’s 1997 Think Different campaign.
The internet: Everything you ever need to know (John Naughton/Guardian)
John Naughton / Guardian:The internet: Everything you ever need to know — In spite of all the answers the internet has given us, its full potential to transform our lives remains the great unknown. Here are the nine key steps to understanding the most powerful tool of our age – and where it’s taking us
With Foursquare’s founder, life is a virtual game (John D. Sutter/CNN)
John D. Sutter / CNN:With Foursquare’s founder, life is a virtual game — New York (CNN) — Dennis Crowley was jogging across a New York bridge when he spotted something exciting: a cartoon mushroom, spray-painted on the sidewalk. — It looked like something out of Nintendo’s “Super Mario Bros.,” which Crowley grew up playing.
Movie depicts seamy life of Facebook boss (John Harlow/Times of London)
John Harlow / Times of London:Movie depicts seamy life of Facebook boss — The 26-year-old billionaire, who is already under fire for his website’s abuse of privacy, now faces ridicule — JUST as he hoped to clean up his image, Mark Zuckerberg, the inventor of Facebook, is to be portrayed in a Hollywood film as [...]
The Google Phone: This changes everything (mostly) (John Biggs/CrunchGear)
John Biggs / CrunchGear:The Google Phone: This changes everything (mostly) — We don’t have much information on the Google Phone just yet. In fact, it sounds more like a party favor than anything else. However, if and when Google starts selling this thing, prepare for some of the strangest – and coolest – times in [...]
