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• Samsung Stratosphere Targets Professionals With 4G and a Hardware Keyboard
  Being on Verizon's 4G LTE network and having a smartphone with a QWERTY keyboard have been mutually exclusive features until now. Today, the carrier revealed the Samsung Stratosphere, a 4G smartphone with a slide-out keyboard. The Stratosphere targets the business professional crowd, the folks who used to use (or still use) BlackBerries, but are looking to ...
  10.10.11

• Facebook Releases Long-Awaited iPad App
  It seemed like it would never arrive, but at long last, Facebook has released its iPad app. One of the key features of the iPad-specific app is its integration with other iOS apps: The Facebook app will send you straight to other apps when you navigate to them from a friend's news post or status update. ...
  10.10.11

• Critics Be Damned! iPhone 4S Pre-Order Success Validates Apple Strategy
  If initial sales figures for the iPhone 4S are any indication, Apple could issue a resounding "I told you so" to critics who initially panned the phone's new features and unchanged physical appearance as dissappointing. Perhaps even more telling: Solid sales of older iPhone models continue to prove Apple's dominance in the smartphone space.
  10.10.11

• Begun, These Army Phone Wars Have
  After 20 years, the Army has finally figured out how it wants to network soldiers together in a warzone: through something like a smartphone. It's called Nett Warrior, and it's got the Army very excited. There's only one problem: Defense companies already want to render it obsolete.
  10.10.11

• iPhone 4S Sells One Million in 24 Hours
  The iPhone 4S, roundly dismissed as a disappointment by many tech pundits and writers, has shifted one million units in just a day. It looks like the pundits have no idea what real people want.
  10.10.11

• Trek Belleville Gets You Around in Style
  This handsome machine is part of Trek's 2012 lineup. It's called the Belleville, and the bike itself is as elegant as the name when it comes to getting you and your stuff around the city. The Belleville lands somewhere between an old-style tourer and a Dutch-style city bike, although the build itself is all modern. It ...
  10.10.11

• Ex-Googlers Bake Enterprise Security Into Android
  Former Googlers, Tom Moss and Gaurav Mathur, felt enterprise security and monitoring came up painfully short for Android devices. Google's stance on the open-source OS was that security should be handled by third parties. "We were tired of seeing these bad solutions," Moss, 3LM's CEO told Wired. "Everyone else is working on applications. But we're working at the platform level." Today 3LM comes out of stealth mode and will release its enterprise security suite.
  10.10.11

• Veteran Music Geek Alan Parsons Talks iPad Recording, 'Irreversible' Loss of Fidelity
  The pioneer electronic musician talks about technology and the current music industry.
  10.10.11

• Julia Child Goes Electric: Mastering the Art of French Cooking E-Book This Week
  When it comes to media, these days I'm pretty much all digital, all the time. Books, TV, movies, music -- nothing sinks into my brain without first running through an iPad or a Kindle. But in one area, I'm as much of a Luddite as my friend Jimmy (who "doesn't believe in GPS"): cook books. Why? ...
  10.10.11

• Frank Rose: Steve Jobs, In And Out of Exile At Apple (Part II)
  In Friday's excerpt from West of Eden ¿ Wired contributor Frank Rose's account of the three-year period at Apple that began with John Sculley's recruitment as CEO and ended with Steve Jobs leaving to found NeXT ¿ Jobs is removed from his position as head of the Macintosh division and installed in an otherwise empty ...
  10.09.11

• Review: Do iPad Butler iPad Mount Systems Carry Their Weight?
  At first I thought that any gizmo that can securely hold an iPad up for easy viewing deserves a closer look. It's time to check out the iPad Butler series of iPad mount systems, the iPad Butler Carbon Deluxe Stand ¿nd the iPad Butler Floor Stands. Th¿ Carbon Deluxe stand ¿¿ a multi-post system for your ...
  10.09.11

• The GeekDads Episode #101: Han Shot First, Fahgettaboudit! (GeekDad Weekly Rewind)
  Ken, Matt, and John Booth talk about the Apple iPhone 4S announcement, the Kindle Fire, Real Steel, The Muppets, and more. Enjoy! GeekDad.com is the parenting blog at Wired.com, edited by Ken Denmead, Matt Blum, Jonathan Liu, Z and Chris Anderson. It is a community of like-minded geeky parents writing about our experiences raising ...
  10.09.11

• Steve Jobs Social Media Tributes (Infographic)
  The other day we shared an infographic of the global outpouring of grief for the death of Steve Jobs, based on an analysis of Tweets in non-English languages ¿ an impressive grid which about the illustrated the reach of Apple's visionary co-founder. The people at Meltwater, the social media analysis company, have come up with ...
  10.08.11

• Frank Rose: Steve Jobs, In And Out of Exile At Apple
  In West of Eden, Wired contributor Frank Rose recounts what happened at Apple during three pivotal years in the company¿s history. The story begins with Steve Jobs, then 27 and excited about the idea that Apple could sell computers as if they were packaged goods, recruiting Pepsi-Cola president John Sculley to run the company. It ...
  10.07.11

• Betsy Morris: Steve Jobs, Obsession, and Those Whales
  I interviewed Steve Jobs multiple times while a writer at Fortune magazine, but by far the most insightful ¿ and most memorable ¿ was the most informal. Maybe that¿s because it turned out to be the last time in February of 2008. Or maybe it was because of the whales. 'I love my family,' Jobs told me. ...
  10.07.11

• Twitter Analysis: Massive Global Mourning for Steve Jobs (Infographic)
  In the hours after Steve Jobs' passing, researchers at the New England Complex Systems Institute tried to track the spread of memorial tweets spreading through the internet. Their computers were overwhelmed.
  10.07.11

• Cyclemeter, Runmeter Fitness Apps Make Clever Use of iOS5 Notifications
  It didn't take long for a clever developer to hack the new iOS5 notification system. Abvio, maker of a clutch of fitness apps, has done some clever things with notifications that will let you leave you iPhone well alone whilst working out, but still be kept up to date. Abvio's Runmeter, Cyclemeter and Walkmeter apps have ...
  10.07.11

• GhostGuitar, Awesome Augmented Air Guitar for iPhone
  GhostGuitar is an app that will revolutionize the air guitar industry. No longer do you have to imagine the awesome sounds that you're pumping out of your imaginary axe. Instead, you can use your talented hands to pump out actual power chords. As the promo blurb says, "Finally. A real air guitar." The app uses the ...
  10.07.11

• Heroes of Neverwinter Brings D&D; to Facebook
  You and your Facebook buddies can now venture into dank dungeons and frightful forests, seeking out treasure, glory, experience points. The typical RPG haul.
  10.07.11

• Dave Winer: Steve Jobs as Frank Lloyd Wright
  In 1983, my little software company was lucky to be invited to work on Apple's new computer in development, the Macintosh. Back then Apple wasn't as secretive as it is today. Everyone knew something was coming. We knew what it was called, but no one was saying what it was. I gladly signed the agreement, ...
  10.06.11

• Felix Salmon: Steve Jobs, For The Love of Technology
  Why has the death of Steve Jobs caused such a huge outpouring of grief? Mainly, I think, because Jobs had an ability to make very human connections with people. He could do it in a commencement speech which barely mentions technology — but his greatest achievement was to do it with technology itself. In ...
  10.06.11

• Remembering Steve Jobs Across the Web
  People of all types came out to celebrate, mourn and honor Steve Jobs after learning of his death yesterday. Some converged on local Apple Stores or flocked to Apple's Cupertino campus, while others paid their respects online.
  10.06.11

• Army Shows Off Soldier Smartphone Beta
  It wasn't one of those epic Steve Jobs product roll-outs. Not even close. But in an obscure warren of the Pentagon, the Army took a major step towards embracing the smartphone revolution that Jobs did so much to promote.
  10.06.11

• 'This Stuff Doesn't Change the World': Disability and Steve Jobs' Legacy
  When I heard that Steve Jobs had passed away, I was boarding a train from New York to Philadelphia to visit my son. A friend phoned and then text-messaged me the news before I could read it on Twitter. It felt, I said later, as if someone had torn the hair out of my head.
  10.06.11

• Saying Hello to Apple After 26 Years -- And Goodbye to Steve Jobs
  In 1984, my dad told my brother and me to climb into the car with him for a special trip. We drove to whatever computer store in Gulf Breeze, Florida it was that sold Apple computers, and came home with the very first Macintosh. It was probably the family purchase that had the biggest impact ...
  10.06.11

• Steve Jobs and His Legacy of Inspiration
  You've probably already read a lot of posts like this one today and will no doubt read many more. I haven't read any yet, as I wanted to collect my thoughts on the sad death of Steve Jobs before reading any others. Like many of us, I was shocked at the news I read when ...
  10.06.11

• Dear Steve, Thanks.
  I will be the first to admit, I'm not an Apple fanboy, yet others that know me may see things differently. Yes, I obsess over the new product-launch feeds. I have a fairly deep understanding of Apple's product line. I've sold my friends and family on the merits of the Mac and their ecosystem. But ...
  10.06.11