Stop lying. The Web has a zillion sleuths just waiting to be activated, like that worm on your computer delineated on "60 Minutes" last night The Conficker Worm: What Happens Next? (PC-only, in fact), in order to verify the veracity of your statements. Latest example? Microsoft’s new "Laptop Hunters" TV campaign, in which an uber-attractive […]

This story started burning up the Internet yesterday.  And has now even made it to hitsdailydouble.com.  At first I laughed it off, but thinking about it last night, I wondered, how would the launch of U2’s album have played out differently if the band had aligned with Apple? Letterman doesn’t reach 5 million people a […]

I was going to write about Saul Hansell’s article in the "New York Times" about the sale of "iPhone: The Missing Manual" at the App Store.  Mr. Hansell focused on the fact that people paid for it, but more interesting to me was that not only was this the number one computer book this year, […]

It’s time to stop suing traders (stop the Pirate Bay proceedings post-haste) and recognize that the labels will be saved by the future, which is imminent. I used to comb Limewire and Rapidshare, adding to my collection of often unlistened to MP3s.  But I’ve just about given up.  It’s just not worth the time.  Not […]