Mark Milian
Covering consumer technology in San Francisco. Author of Letters to Steve: Inside the E-mail Inbox of Apple's Steve Jobs.
Covering consumer technology in San Francisco. Author of Letters to Steve: Inside the E-mail Inbox of Apple's Steve Jobs.
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Facebook's latest terms of service includes “Book” among the trademarks that “you will not use” if you want to be able to log into your account.
Writing a self-defense manual called “Macebook”? You may want to change the name. Facebook updated its terms of service last week to include “Book” among the trademarks that “you will not use” if you want to be able to log...
Read more »Mike Daisey must be feeling some agony after his one-man show, “The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs,” was outed for embellishing its supposed first-hand accounts. But Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is still a big fan of the performance,...
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Workers walk outside Hon Hai Group's Foxconn plant in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, China, on Wednesday, May 26, 2010.
Mike Daisey, the monologist behind “The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs,” created a “reality-distortion field” of his own. But it didn’t fool Rob Schmitz. The China bureau chief for American Public Media’s Marketplace publication uncovered that Daisey had...
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Kevin Rose killed Oink, an iPhone app launched in November.
Staying true to his promise, Kevin Rose, the Digg founder who now runs a mobile-app company called Milk, is shooting his young product in the head. Milk announced today that Oink will be shutting down less than five months after...
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PayPal is restricting the accounts of users it suspects of using the payment service to place bets on the NCAA tournament.
PayPal sent out some scary-looking e-mails this week to customers who the company believes are using their accounts for betting on the NCAA’s March Madness. The e-mails are legit, unlike the constant flow of paypal@service.com spam messages that hit our...
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