Author: Brian Lam

Well, how can I explain this? I got some interesting calls today. It was Apple. And they wanted their phone back. More »

Hey man, I know things seem really tough right now. We had mixed feelings about writing the story of how you lost the prototype, but the story is fascinating. And tragic, which makes it human. And our sin is that we cannot resist a good story. Especially one that is human, and not merely about a gadget—that’s something that rarely comes out of Apple anymore. But hopefully you take these hard times and turn things around. We all make mistakes. Yours was just public. Tomorrow’s another day. We will all be cheering for you. More »

A certain red-headed devil child we call Matt. But also, we’ve been mail renting lenses and high end gear we couldn’t dream of affording from Borrowlenses.com. More »

How and where you’ll use the iPad are of the essence. More »

Typing on a tablet is serviceable but not without strange moments. It’s pretty clear that typing is a secondary function for the iPad. More »

Hey all. Eventually, we’ll move to an iPad-friendly video (HTML 5) and layout, which all of Gawker Media will get. Here’s an early, early preview, where a lot won’t work. Give us feedback in the comments. [Beta.Gizmodo.com, Beta.Deadspin.com] More »

Well, we just don’t have one yet. Sorry! Read this Boingboing review. I like it a lot. She just gets it, and pretty much thinks what I think about the iPad. [Boingboing] More »

Apple progressed their PR launch strategy last night. They went above the usual newspaper and blog nerds, supplanting coverage with a few non-tech writers. Since this is the first computer for non-geeks, they should have gone a lot further. More »

A lot of writers, including me, suspected the Steve Jobs and Eric Schmidt meeting in public was a PR stunt. After some research, and info on background, I’m more sure it wasn’t. More »

These Paypal documents from the JooJoo/Techcrunch lawsuit show that only 90 preorders for the $500 device, roughly $44k worth, were made. This is what happens when you launch a tablet the same month as Apple, at the same price. More »

I thought Steve Jobs and Eric Schmidt looked a little tense during their meeting today, and body linguistics expert, Janine Driver, who used to be an officer for the Department of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, agrees. Awkwardness: confirmed. More »

Jobs and Schmidt, whose companies have just ended their love affair, were spotted minutes ago talking business at Calafia in the Town and Country shopping center in Palo Alto. Update: That’s not an iPad. And body language analysis, here. More »

It’s just a concept, but think about it: Why should we put up with the tyranny of standing—on both legs, manually—while being carried across sidewalks? Why, when we could sit on one like a pony. [Atcrux via Jalopnik] More »

Now that Microcells are coming, it’s a good time to imagine how wonderful our reception will be. And how AT&T should be giving these away for free or less than $150, despite the zero monthly rate. [Repost on Giz] More »

Days after Google moved from China, Sergey Brin is pushing the US to fight censorship there. But the West has a history of forcing moral and economic standards onto foreigners. This sort of thinking isn’t good—it’s how wars start. More »

Akira Kurosawa’s films have been the greatest influence on my life, along with Karate Kid and Enter the Dragon. The samurai films were about the sword fights, secondary; first, they were about characters, and timeless stories. More »

Saying hello to Spring is always bittersweet for me. More »

The moments that make our weekend adventures and sports amazing happen so fast, you’ve no hope of catching them at 30fps. Which is why I wish someone made a high-speed, rugged point and shoot. More »

Oh hey, the Kindle app for OS X is out. It’s free, but you have to buy the books, of course. It doesn’t have multitouch, like the Windows app, though. [Amazon via TUAW] More »

Pogoplug, the gadget that puts a hard drive’s content’s online just got a new feature: sharing of media with Xbox 360 and PS3 across the local network or cloud. More »