John Paczkowski

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QOTD: Google Is Like Pornography?

What we say is — it’s Eric’s view of it — ‘Google is like pornography.’ People see the word Google and they don’t see anything else. And when I’m de­fined in terms of Google, where I don’t work — he works there — it’s not who I am. I’ve worked pretty hard to develop my own identity.

— Wendy Schmidt, wife of Google Chairman Eric Schmidt, whose gift with the language is apparently not restricted to his public pronouncements

Twitter’s Tanking

December 30, 2013 at 6:49 am PT

2013 Was a Good Year for Chromebooks

December 29, 2013 at 2:12 pm PT

BlackBerry Pulls Latest Twitter for BB10 Update

December 29, 2013 at 5:58 am PT

Apple CEO Tim Cook Made $4.25 Million This Year

December 28, 2013 at 12:05 pm PT

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Another gadget you don’t really need. Will not work once you get it home. New model out in 4 weeks. Battery life is too short to be of any use.

— From the fact sheet for a fake product entitled Useless Plasticbox 1.2 (an actual empty plastic box) placed in L.A.-area Best Buy stores by an artist called Plastic Jesus