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Peter Kafka in Media on January 25 at 4:00 am PT

An ad tech linkup that makes sense.

CliffsNotes for Apple’s Education Event

Peter Kafka in Media on January 19 at 4:00 am PT

Apple wants to reinvent textbooks. Will it bring the publishers along, or work around them?

Today in Unverified Apple-Verizon News

Peter Kafka in Media on August 12, 2010 at 5:13 am PT

The drumbeat of reports pointing to an impending Verizon iPhone launch is getting louder. Which doesn’t mean that it’s true. Just that there’s a lot of drumming going on. Still, for the record: Apple is reportedly doing advanced testing on a CDMA version of the iPhone–the kind of testing it would need to bring the phone to Verizon.

A Modest Proposal: Please Leave the Lost iPhone Dude Alone

Kara Swisher in News on April 23, 2010 at 7:37 am PT

Last night, I tweeted: “Good god, pls stop egregiously using this poor lost iphone dude for cheap traffic…sadly, I have to link to explain: http://bit.ly/cK28zb.” The link led to yet another post on the Web site Gizmodo, owned by Gawker Media, which bought a stolen prototype iPhone 4G from a still unnamed man who filched it after an Apple engineer left it in a Silicon Valley bar by accident. I’m not holding my breath for the Web site to do the right thing.

Did Apple Just Kick Adobe (And Wired Magazine) in the Teeth?

Peter Kafka in Media on April 8, 2010 at 2:29 pm PT

It looks like Apple just stepped up its attacks against Adobe and its Flash standard–used throughout the Web and apparently hated with much passion by Steve Jobs. Caught in the crossfire once again: Condé Nast and Wired Magazine.

AT&T Does Not Manage or Approve Apps for the App Store (Though We May Bitch About the Ones We Dislike)

John Paczkowski in News on August 3, 2009 at 4:30 am PT

AT&T has replied to a Federal Communications Commission letter of inquiry into the role it played in the rejection of a number of third-party Google Voice apps and Google’s official GV client from Apple’s iTunes App Store. The gist of the reply: Don’t look at us.

AT&T Does Not Manage or Approve Apps for the App Store (Though We May Bitch About the Ones We Dislike)

John Paczkowski in News on August 3, 2009 at 4:30 am PT

AT&T has replied to a Federal Communications Commission letter of inquiry into the role it played in the rejection of a number of third-party Google Voice apps and Google’s official GV client from Apple’s iTunes App Store. The gist of the reply: Don’t look at us.

TwitterGate: Out Damned Spot!

Kara Swisher in News on July 16, 2009 at 3:10 am PT

For all the noisy hubbub over should-we-or-shouldn’t-we-publish confidential documents hacked from password-protected accounts of Twitter employees, as well as a Twitter spouse, it is actually pretty simple. Stolen equals stolen. But, because this is a “hot” issue and it concerns an even hotter Web 2.0 company–Holy traffic-gooser, Batman!–the debate will surely go on and on, even as the stolen information inevitably leaks its way out. Still, let’s not pretend what it is and is not.

Adding an Amazon or Apple Affiliate Link to Your Blog? The Feds Want to Know.

Peter Kafka in Media on June 22, 2009 at 1:05 pm PT

Let’s say you’re a small-time blogger who makes a habit out of writing about, say, music or books or software or videogames. And let’s say that you’ve decided to join an “affiliate program” that sends readers to Amazon or to Apple’s iTunes, where they can buy said product. Well, the Federal Trade Commission might like a word with you.

Want to Turn Your New iPhone 3G S Into a Modem? Be Ready to Pay Up.

Peter Kafka in Media on June 19, 2009 at 7:10 am PT

Did you wait in line this morning to buy a new iPhone 3G S? If you want to take advantage of its “tethering” feature and use it as a modem, you’re going to have to wait a while longer. And you’ll have to pay–though it’s unclear how much that’s going to cost.