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Viral Video: Get Out Your 3-D Glasses for the Michael Jackson Grammy Tribute (Plus Colbert and the iPad)

Kara Swisher in News on February 1, 2010 at 12:59 am PT

While an iPad in the wild–held up by Stephen Colbert–got a lot of ink, here’s a video from last night’s Grammy Awards, which went all “Avatar” during a tribute to the late Michael Jackson–when a panoply of belt-it-out singers performed one of his posthumous songs with a 3-D twist. In fact, much of the audience was wearing 3-D glasses–including Beyoncé, pictured here–to properly experience the performance of “Earth Song” and its accompanying film, which was supposed to be part of Jackson’s “This Is It” tour.

Ain't Nobody's Business If Jobs Is or Isn't

Kara Swisher in News on July 28, 2008 at 5:33 pm PT

So, I have been standing by, trying to make sense of the debate that has swirled around Apple CEO, Co- Founder and font-of-all Steve Jobs with regard to his health or, more specifically, the lack thereof. And after listening to all of the debate about it–mostly indignant declarations by the media, making their case mostly by wheedling milder indignant declarations out of stock analysts and corporate tsk-tsk outfits–I have concluded that what is ailing Jobs is exactly no one’s business. Even if his every breath is critical to the ongoing operations of Apple, the reason most use as their main argument for Jobs to tell all, it goes double.