John Paczkowski

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Google High Bidder in eBay Auction for 'Well-Known Obscene Hand Gesture'

Good thing Google Checkout was never intended to be a PayPal killer. Because if it was, you might think Google’s plan to host a Google Checkout party outside the eBay Live customer event in Boston tonight was something more than a funny little coincidence. You know, the same way you might think that eBay’s decision to yank all of its paid search ads from Google’s AdWords network was retaliation for that party, instead of the marketing “experiment” it so clearly was. The same way you might think Google’s unexpected cancellation of the party it had so gleefully promoted was a haphazard effort to smooth things over with the auction giant and not just the result of poor planning. Or that this entire misadventure was another sign of the significant deterioration of relations between the two Internet titans.

Twitter’s Tanking

December 30, 2013 at 6:49 am PT

2013 Was a Good Year for Chromebooks

December 29, 2013 at 2:12 pm PT

BlackBerry Pulls Latest Twitter for BB10 Update

December 29, 2013 at 5:58 am PT

Apple CEO Tim Cook Made $4.25 Million This Year

December 28, 2013 at 12:05 pm PT

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Another gadget you don’t really need. Will not work once you get it home. New model out in 4 weeks. Battery life is too short to be of any use.

— From the fact sheet for a fake product entitled Useless Plasticbox 1.2 (an actual empty plastic box) placed in L.A.-area Best Buy stores by an artist called Plastic Jesus