My iPhone now works as a remote control for my laptop anywhere in the house, provided it’s on the same WiFi network. The laptop, in turn, can stream to speakers in the living room hooked up to the router. If I start morphing into Justin Long, you have permission to put me down like a […]

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Noun. The fear of whipping out your shiny new Apple device on the street—at times and places where you’d previously have used your old phone without a second thought—because you suddenly feel like an attractive target for muggers. I’m guessing I may not be the only one out there who’s experienced this phenomenon recently?

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I’ve got a piece over at Ars Technica on the fraught fortunes of the Sirius/XM merger.

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This thing needs a call-record feature. Because actually, between SMS, e-mail, and IM, almost the only time I actually make a voice telephone call is to conduct an interview.

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I’ve got a post on open social graphs over at Techdirt.

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I left a huge one out of my “shouldn’t the iPhone do this?” list: Podcast updates. I would probably listen to various NPR news podcasts on my iPod, except I’m lazy and don’t want to be bothered with remembering to update and sync whenever I’m about to go anywhere. So it would be ideal if […]

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So—like about half of the human race, to judge by the subways last week—I got an iPhone for Christmas, and it is, in fact, roughly as awesome as advertised. But there are some weird little omissions—thinks that it seems obvious the phone should be able to do, and that, moreover, seem like they’d be pretty […]

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Mike Masnick at TechDirt bags on writer Doris Lessing for some recent comments about the pernicious effect of the Internet and blogging: We are in a fragmenting culture, where our certainties of even a few decades ago are questioned and where it is common for young men and women, who have had years of education, […]

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I’ve got a post up at TechDirt, where I’ll henceforth be contributing occasionally, about John Ashcroft’s recent op-ed defending telecom immunity for cooperation in extralegal wiretaps.

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Via TLF, Decaln McCullagh nails the most obvious reason why a “Do Not Track” list seems unnecessary: Anyone who cares enough about this form of “privacy invasion” (a form that strikes me as fairly benign, but YMMV) presumably also cares enough to spend 30 seconds figuring out how to block cookies from non-trusted sites. Is […]

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