14 posts and columns on John Markoff

Scenes From the Apple iPad Day: Is It a Thneed or an iPod XL?

in News on January 28, 2010 at 7:25 am PT

BoomTown captured some bits and pieces of tasty video as I attended the Apple rollout of its newest device, the iPad, yesterday. There are shots of the action in San Francisco outside and inside the launch hall and demo area, as well as interviews with the folks gathered–some of whom liked the iPad and some of whom were dubious.

Do You Want a New Internet?

in News on February 17, 2009 at 2:48 pm PT

The lack of security and privacy online has some technology experts pushing for a do-over on the Internet, according to a Sunday Week in Review article in the New York Times. “What a new Internet might look like is still widely debated, but one alternative would, in effect, create a ‘gated community’ where users would give up their anonymity and certain freedoms in return for safety,” writes John Markoff.