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The Incredible, Invulnerable, Indispensable Social Network July 23, 2010 
And you thought Apple was the only Teflon technology company out there. Despite a brief six-year lifespan filled with privacy complaints and user gripes over neck-snapping design changes, Facebook just signed up User No. 500,000,000. Businesses continue to pile onboard the Mark Zuckerberg express, thanks to the powerful recommendation engine that is the "Like" button.
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The Sweet Smell of Social Media Success - and the Funk of Failure July 16, 2010 
How's this for tying together Old Spice's winning social media strategy and Apple's current iPhone problems: While the cologne and deodorant company is ending the week smelling like a rose, Steve Jobs' tech colossus is in danger of stinking up the joint. Follow along with me as I attempt to marry the two top tech stories of the past few days.
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Lessons Learned From a Career Tweeted Away July 09, 2010 
It may be hard to believe in our current overheated cable news climate, but in the days and months after Sept. 11 -- and in the weeks following the 2003 invasion of Iraq -- CNN was actually doing its best to provide in-depth reporting and analysis of the Middle East. CNN International's Octavia Nasr was a key player for the network during that time.
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No Kin Do: Microsoft Keeps Limping Into the Mobile Era July 02, 2010 
Even though I had no intention of ever buying a Kin, I'm still pissed off at Microsoft for killing their latest attempt at the mobile phone market. The Kin One and Two now share a dubious distinction: They got less time than Conan O'Brien to build and develop an audience.
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AT&T's Winter, Spring and Summer of Discontent June 18, 2010 
"Orders for the iPhone 4 Top 600,000, Apple Says," according to a New York Times headline last Wednesday. Now that's a headline guaranteed to grab the nearest Mac fanboy, technology enthusiast and even casual geek by the lapels and slap the caramel mochaccinos right out of them.
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The Brilliant Future of the Portable Device Display June 17, 2010 
As director of marketing for the Qualcomm division that manufactures the Mirasol display technology, Cheryl Goodman is racking up the frequent flyer miles, thanks to the boom in the e-reader/tablet computer market. She's the one who educates journalists and analysts about Mirasol's promise of color e-reader screens.
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Sony Embarks on a New Crusade With 3-D Gaming June 16, 2010 
The auditorium darkens, the audience members put on their 3-D glasses, and a screen fills up with point-of-view images of sci-fi warfare -- futuristic soldiers leaping from one military platform to another in special weaponized jetpacks, raining death and destruction. A scene from a potential sequel to James Cameron's "Avatar?" No, just an attempt to take that film's success and translate it into another medium.
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FBI Interest Gives iPad Whodunnit a More Serious Turn June 11, 2010 
AT&T's iPad security breach may have been plugged, but the questions it's raised continue to leak out to the tech press/mainstream media and the blogosphere. The story is sticking around because of issues regarding responsibility -- not just Apple and AT&T's liability in the matter; the security researchers who discovered the breach and the technology blog that told the world about it are also the subjects of inquiry.
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A Gyroscope That Will Set the Tech World Spinning June 11, 2010 
You don't have to be an Apple fanboy to rave about the coolness on display during a typical Steve Jobs keynote presentation. Sure, like any good speaker or stand-up comic, Jobs knows where his guaranteed applause/laugh lines fall during the hour or so he's on stage, and he's well aware of who will be doing most of the laughing, oohing and aahing. It's better than a '60s sitcom laugh-track.
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If Anyone Can Find a Place for Mobile Video Chat, It's Apple June 09, 2010 
Steve Jobs certainly didn't invent the concept of videophones; they've been dialing up the imaginations of comic-book artists and science-fiction writers and filmmakers for decades. Various companies other than Apple have actually managed to assemble working videophones -- AT&T, carrier for Jobs' iPhone 4, came out with its "Picturephone" just in time for the 1964 World's Fair in New York City.
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When Data-Rich iPhone Meets Austere AT&T June 08, 2010 
The new iPhone 4 may indeed be "the thinnest smartphone on the planet," as Apple CEO Steve Jobs described it Monday during his Worldwide Developers Conference keynote presentation. However, it's shaping up to be an out-of-this-world data hog -- just as AT&T, playing the role of "The Biggest Loser's" Jillian Michaels, begins weaning its customers off of all-you-can-eat data usage plans.
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Rewriting the Language of 3-D: Q&A With Pixar Chief Scientist Loren Carpenter June 07, 2010 
If you're a parent of young children and you've sat through any number of bad "family" movies during a crowded matinee, then you've probably thanked Disney/Pixar for conjuring up the likes of Buzz Lightyear and Woody, Nemo and Dory, Mike and Sully, Mr. Incredible, Wall-E, Lightning McQueen and Remy the gourmand rat.
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D8's Ballmer Show: Lashing Out and Fessing Up June 04, 2010 
It will probably come as a surprise to the millions of people who have already purchased one, but the Apple iPad is just another PC, according to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, who made the comments this week during a recent on-stage interview at the D8 Conference. "Of course it is," Ballmer told Wall Street Journal tech columnist Walt Mossberg. "It's a different form factor of PC.
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Jobs at WWDC: Taking the Stage With Chutzpah Only Apple Can Afford June 04, 2010 
Talk about dealing from a position of strength: Apple and Steve Jobs enter next week's Worldwide Developers Conference as kings of the tech industry hill, makers of must-have consumer products and generators of must-read technosphere headlines. He strode onstage at this week's D8 Conference still looking understandably frail considering his health issues. However, the passion was still there
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Google Closes the Blinds on Windows June 01, 2010 
Claiming it was scared into reality by the Chinese hacking attacks of late last year, Google is phasing out employee usage of the Windows operating system due to security concerns, according to a report in the Financial Times. At least that's the cover story being provided by unnamed Google employees quoted in the FT article.
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Is the Space Between Android and Apple Big Enough for a WinPho7 Hit? June 01, 2010 
It has become the PowerPoint slide seen around the world -- or at least the World Wide Web, and specifically those websites and blogs that pay close attention to technology and the smartphone market. A Microsoft presentation at the ReMIX trade show in France this week boasted a slide showing that tech market research firm IDC predicts 30 million Windows Phone 7 devices sold worldwide by the end of 2011.
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