John Paczkowski

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Apple Poaches Yahoo Data Center Guru

As first reported by GigaOM, Scott Noteboom, who has served as Yahoo’s head of Global Data Center Infrastructure since joining the company in 2005, has found a new gig. At Apple. According to his LinkedIn profile, Noteboom train-hopped to Cupertino earlier this month. His duties there aren’t entirely clear, though given his background he’ll likely be helping oversee the data centers at the back end of Apple’s iTunes Match and iCloud service offerings.

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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Just as the atom bomb was the weapon that was supposed to render war obsolete, the Internet seems like capitalism’s ultimate feat of self-destructive genius, an economic doomsday device rendering it impossible for anyone to ever make a profit off anything again. It’s especially hopeless for those whose work is easily digitized and accessed free of charge.

— Author Tim Kreider on not getting paid for one’s work