Author: matt buchanan

With Motorola’s latest quarterly sales of 8.5 million, the former biggest phonemaker in the US lost its lead to Apple, who sold 8.8 million iPhones last quarter. A moment of reflection, please. [AppleInsider] More »

Amazon? Not playing around with publishers when it comes to ebook deals. Penguin’s contract ran out on April 1, so Amazon can’t sell their ebooks. So Amazon’s cut the price of Penguin’s actual hardcovers to $9.99 ebook pricing. More »

A very long wait, or a very big scam. [Thanks Sergei!] More »

Wired.com’s tracked down the finder of the lost iPhone prototype, 21-year-old Brian J. Hogan. [Wired] More »

Multitasking! On phones! Everybody does it now. But each smartphone platform does it differently. Here are the various tricky ways that the major platforms try to juggle multiple apps. More »

If Apple’s position on Flash wasn’t perfectly clear, Steve Jobs has taken the time to write a 1500-word open letter regurgitating the party lines at length. In a word (or three), Apple’s position is “Flash sucks unwashed balls.” More »

The Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU’s Tisch School is where all kinds of ridiculously creative techno-wizardry happens so it’s pretty exciting they’re seriously opening up the program with a Summer Camp for grown ups. Do check it out. [ITP] More »

The battery’s power level rises with the temperature—not the amount of caffeine. Bleary-eyed and hungover, somebody’s going to find this out the hard way. That’ll be that screeching sound, trailing in the distance. [Art Lebedev via Unpluggd] More »

Worldwide Developers Conference 2010 makes it more clear than ever what Apple’s real priorities are: iPhone and iPad. Mac OS X is an also ran. More »

The first build you can install of Firefox for Android—aka Fennec—is “pre-alpha,” but I doubt that’ll stop you. You’ll need a Droid or Nexus One, though. [Download via Vlad1] More »

Cnet’s Audiophiliac Steve Guttenberg unequivocally thinks the Ultimate Ears 18 Pro earbuds, with their six driver setup, are worth $1350. So, uh, what do earbuds that cost more than most computers sound like? More »

Code trickles promised video chat hiding inside iPhone OS 4, raising hopes and inflating sci-fi fantasies. Now code snippets bring us back to earth, that iPhone video calling might be real but only over Wi-Fi. More »

There’s not much secret left in the sauce for the iPad’s A4 chip—it’s a faster, customized version of what’s inside the iPhone 3GS. But the recipe probably comes from a tiny chip design firm Apple purchased, called Intrinsity. More »

Asked by the NYT how he’d feel if someone lost a prototype Android phone in a bar, Google’s Andy Rubin reveals the stark difference between Google and Apple—among other topics, like Flash for Android 2.2. [Bits] More »

The best apps for any Google platform—like say, Android—are almost inevitably written by Google. Now Google’s bought a little app company called LabPixies, that makes widgets and games for Android and iGoogle, so expect more. [Google via Cnet] More »

Fresh details on Steam for Mac, which is bursting my pants: It’s fully native, using OpenGL—no wrappers—and is Intel only. It requires Leopard, and for Source games, a decent graphics card. No dates yet. =( [MacStories via MacRumors] More »