Pirates of Silicon Valley

Microsoft Courier – where was the pirate flag?

It might've been the first time in modern time that Jerry Bruckheimer missed his cue.
Monkey see, monkey do

Must we devalue the F-word?

Real friends babysit Capuchins.
The Verge launches

New tech blog ‘The Verge’ launches

It's far less snarky, boy-racer than Gizmodo, whose street cred dropped massively when they got ensnared in the iPhone-in-a-bar scandal last year.
Mobile Advertising: Up and to the right.

Trend Spotting: Microsoft faces up-hill battle

This is a company that has DNA hard-wired to the 80s and is trying desperately to break free from its drag. Those skinny Duran leather ties be gone.
Vimeo Music Store launched

Vimeo launches music store

The interface design aesthetic is classic Vimeo - clean, easy-to-use, and pretty in a minimalist (think Google modernism) way.
Samsung Galaxy Nexus: first to run Android 4.0 - Ice Cream Sandwich.

Galaxy Nexus Early Reviews: Decent, not mind-blowing

"Roboto," the new ICS typeface, it getting positive reaction and is reported to me much easier to read. But where's the Siri-like must-have feature?
RIM Headquarters

Masses abandon BlackBerry, pickup iPhone 4S

So far Gazelle reports that 65,000 BlackBerries have been traded in. The firm expects that number to hit 75,000 by the end of the week.
Cirque du Soleil Totem, San Francisco

Cirque du Soleil: Behind-the-scenes at Totem in San Francisco (video outtakes)

Loni was pleased to report that there was a lot of buff, half-naked men, as seen in this video. I could only find 1 woman, but a sexy one on rollerskates at that!
Thin is in again with Motorola Droid RAZR: Only 7.1mm thick.

Verizon Droid RAZR pre-orders, are you in?

"The 960-by-540, blessedly not-PenTile-format screen is an absolute stunner. It uses Samsung Super AMOLED Plus technology. It's higher-res than any Samsung phone we've seen so far."

5 Questions: State of telecommuting

A recent Electronics Association report estimated that 1.35 billion gallons of gasoline could be conserved annually if every U.S. worker with the ability to workshift did so 1.6 days per week.