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Digitimes: Is a Mini iPad on the Way?

Lauren Goode in Mobile on December 16, 2011 at 10:41 am PT

Would Apple ever make a tiny tablet?

Viral Video: "The Whipped Cream Situation" on TWiT

Kara Swisher in News on March 1, 2011 at 12:15 am PT

On Sunday, BoomTown tossed my mohawked dog Phineas in the Mini and motored up to lovely Petaluma to appear live and in studio on Leo Laporte’s fine “This Week in Tech” online show. It was a week full of news–from the about-to-launch Apple iPad to Google taking aim at content farms to the Oscars. And also whipped-cream bras.

"Final Jeopardy" Question: Would You Buy an E-Book Without an Ending?

Peter Kafka in Media on January 27, 2011 at 4:24 am PT

Stephen Baker has a great tale to tell you. But if you buy his new e-book–about an IBM computer facing off against “Jeopardy”’s smartest players–you won’t get the whole story. Yet.

Voices

Apple: Where Are The TV Apps, Asks Kaufman

Tiernan Ray, Blogger, Barron's, Tech Trader Daily in News on December 22, 2010 at 9:46 am PT

Kaufman Brothers analyst Shaw Wu this morning responds to Apple’s (AAPL) announcement yesterday it was closing in on one million units sold of the Apple TV, writing that the company should add support for its iOS apps on the device.

Meet Flipboard: Mike McCue Talks About Stealth "Social Magazine" Start-Up That Just Nabbed $10.5 Million in Funding

Kara Swisher in News on July 20, 2010 at 8:56 pm PT

Say hello to an innovative new social magazine concept called Flipboard, which is attempting to make the social networking universe more accessible, consumable and, perhaps most importantly, visually arresting via a rich app on the Apple iPad. Co-founded by longtime Silicon Valley entrepreneur Mike McCue and former Apple iPhone engineer Evan Doll in January, Flipboard decloaked itself tonight, announcing both a $10.5 million funding from top Silicon Valley power players and also the acquisition of Ellerdale, a relevancy search engine for the real-time Web.

Kylo and Loop Advance Viewing Web Video on TV

Walt Mossberg in Personal Technology on April 14, 2010 at 6:03 pm PT

Hillcrest Lab’s Kylo browser and Loop control make it easier to watch Web content on TV, but the two are still works in progress.

BoomTown Visits 4A's "Transformation 2010″ Confab and Finds Ad Agencies Unusually Social

Kara Swisher in News on March 2, 2010 at 5:20 am PT

BoomTown hightailed it down to the Hilton in San Francisco yesterday for the 4A annual conference. 4A stands for the American Association of Advertising Agencies, and this year’s gathering is titled “Transformations 2010.” That meant about 1,000 people from the marketing communications industry converged to hear sessions that seemed to focus almost completely on what’s causing all the transforming, with the answer mostly being: Social media and the Web.

Get Your Storage Out of the Cloud

Katherine Boehret in The Mossberg Solution on February 23, 2010 at 2:35 pm PT

The cloud is a hip way of describing Web-accessible storage, and whether people know it or not, they’re using this more each day.

Pint-Size Peripherals Scan or Print at a Price

Katherine Boehret in The Mossberg Solution on February 9, 2010 at 9:00 pm PT

Katherine Boehret looks at two scanners that are portable and stylish, but at a price.