Author: matt buchanan

It’s curious that after announcing the Nexus One would be coming to Verizon, Google’s now directing people to the HTC Incredible instead. Then again, Verizon never said they’d carry the Nexus One. UPDATE: Google confirms no N1 on Verizon: More »

The Chemex defines clean coffee—the spare apparatus, and the actual brew it produces. Both timeless and starkly modern, it might surprise you that its inventor drove a Cadillac with a gold Chemex mounted on the driver’s door. [NYT] More »

Gizmodo’s back with PBS Newshour—guess what we talked about this week? Well, we also talked about something Incredible (hint, hint). Oh, I actually wore a collared shirt, but I look pretty fat this time around. So I clearly can’t win here. [PBS] More »

The painful days of updating Android apps one—at—a—time might be at an end with Android 2.2. But is automatic updating really preferable to an “update all” button? It opens questions, and doors, possibly bad ones.[Phandroid] More »

La Marzocco‘s iPhone app is pure espresso machine porn, with photos and specs of its current productions—the Mistral is one of the most gorgeous machines ever produced. It’s like a free coffee nerd boner. [iTunes via ShotZombies] More »

There’s a lot to be happy about in iPhone OS 4. Like multitasking, and threaded inboxes. So why doesn’t it feel right? More »

And it all comes together: Hulu will start testing a $10-a-month Hulu Plus subscription service as early as May 24, according to the LA Times. Huge. More »

This is the new $100 bill. It is revolting. But that’s not the only reason you wouldn’t want to try counterfeiting this malignantly redesigned slip of currency, the most counterfeited of all denominations (outside the US). More »

And the tussle over Flash keeps on tussling: Now Apple’s publicly sniping at Adobe. More »

Twitterific is probably the best Twitter app on the iPad. But you’ve heard all about it. The nicest to actually look at? One you haven’t, a little app called TweetFlow. More »

Apple’s quarterly earnings reports provide a rare opportunity for financial analysts to publicly pose questions to Apple executives. Today, no one granted an audience asked about Apple’s lost iPhone. More »

Apple’s only mention of any kind of new iPhone hardware (besides the letter they sent us), and mentions of “future product transitions” during its live earnings call: Apple COO Tim Cook made a single reference to “new hardware” for the iPhone. More »

Apple sold 8.75 million iPhones in the last three months. That’s over double what they did a year ago, which is how Apple nearly doubled their profits: Up 90 percent for their best ever non-Christmas quarter. More »

The latest beta of iPhone OS 4.0 is ooout. Besides desperately needed bugfixes, wonder what else is new? [Apple] More »

It looks a lot like a migraine. Those 140 characters? Packed with data. [mehack via ReadWriteWeb] More »

The 15- and 17-inch MacBooks Pro got new Core i5 and Core i7 processors. They are, in a word, realdamnfast. The 13-inch MacBook Pro did not. Why? Simply, because everything wouldn’t fit. [Ars] More »

We’ve known a lot about Windows Phone 7, but not so much about the guts of the OS. Well, now we know a lot more—like that a Windows Live ID is tied in pretty tightly. More »

We’ve been waiting for this: Integrated social networking in iPhone, specifically of the Facebook variety—evidence of which has been discovered in iPhone 4.0 system files (via jailbreak), with support for contacts and calendars. [Gunning for Safety via Engadget] More »

The Droid Incredible follows HTC’s standard remix formula: Two parts existing phoneware—Android 2.1 with Sense, speedy processor—one part fresh spice—Verizon’s network. More »