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Murdoch & Son Visit Parliament and Return With a Big Helping Of Humble (and Shaving Cream) Pie

in Media on July 19, 2011 at 6:36 am PT

News Corp. CEO and majordomo Rupert Murdoch tells British lawmakers he is sorry on the “most humble day of my life”, survives a surprise attack and loses his jacket. Other than that, the hearing turned into a what didn’t the Murdochs know and when didn’t they know it Q&A session.
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Before the Tablet: Apple's Steve Jobs in 2004 Talks About Not Doing Another Newton (Video)

in News on January 27, 2010 at 5:01 am PT

Before Steve Jobs unveils his latest and perhaps greatest creation–which is expected to be a tablet computer–later today at a massively hyped event in San Francisco, you might want to peruse this video clip, unearthed from our archives by the crack All Things Digital team, in which the legendary Apple CEO said he was glad he did not do another single-screen PDA-like device after the Newton debacle. In an interview with Walt Mossberg at the second D: All Things Digital conference in May 2004, Jobs said definitively: “I’m as proud of the products that we have not done as the ones we have done.”

Goodbye BlackBerry (and Hello iFart App?)

in News on January 5, 2009 at 12:00 pm PT

Hello, my name is BoomTown and I am a reformed CrackBerryaholic. How bad was it? Here’s the worst story: I was holding my BlackBerry in my hand, inadvertently for once, when I gave birth to my son in 2002. I should have been embarrassed by that. I was not. Hence, that makes me a full-fledged Blackberry addict. Actually, I was one. That’s right, I have finally abandoned the BlackBerry for the iPhone.