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Apple’s Cloud Still Isn’t Streaming

Peter Kafka in Mobile on August 30, 2011 at 9:52 am PT

Apple’s upcoming iTunes Match service will still require users to keep music on their machines. It’s a deliberately different approach than the one Amazon and Google are taking.

A “Probe in Your Pocket”? Apple’s Steve Jobs and Google’s Andy Rubin Talk Smartphone Privacy at D8 and Dive.

Kara Swisher in News on April 26, 2011 at 8:19 am PT

We’ve done a lot of onstage interviews at our D: All Things Digital conferences with the leaders of tech. That includes Apple CEO Steve Jobs and Google smartphone kingpin Andy Rubin, both of whom are now dealing with the fallout over a series of reports that iOS and Android smartphones regularly transmit their locations back to both companies. Here are both talking about the now-explosive issue of privacy.

Happy 10th Birthday, Wikipedia! What's Next? (Video)

Liz Gannes in Social on January 14, 2011 at 10:04 am PT

Wikipedia now seems like an enduring institution on the Web, but the site was only founded 10 years ago, tomorrow. In this video interview, Wikipedia Executive Director Sue Gardner tells us how far the site has come, and what’s next.

Thumbplay Moves From Ringtones to Mobile Music, Hires Apple Exec

Peter Kafka in Media on March 1, 2010 at 4:00 am PT

You might think the long line of failed digital music companies would dissuade people from launching new ones. But you’d be wrong! This week’s example: Thumbplay, which is launching an all-you-can eat mobile music subscription service on Thursday.

Twones May Be a Legal Hype Machine. But It’s No Hype Machine.

Peter Kafka in Media on February 24, 2010 at 9:49 am PT

If you want to make a great music service, you either need to spend yourself into oblivion or risk lawsuits that will do the same thing. Twones has a clever idea to avoid both fates, but its service suffers as a result.