The Voice of Rosen

As the "death of the newspaper" gets continuing coverage (mostly on television), new apps bring the New York Times, USA Today, and now The Wall Street Journal, to your iPhone.

Apple finally announced a long-awaited upgrade to the Mac mini product line.

Eager to show your fancy musician friends that you can record your own hit song without any musical knowledge or talent? Microsoft can show you the way... just as they did more than a dozen years ago. Only this time, according to their video ad, you do it on a MacBook.

Giving robots emotions, even just simulating them for the sake of improving their interaction with humans, sounds like a bad idea. What happens when my Roomba gets angry and decides to vacuum ME up off the floor?

The brouhaha over the voice search capability in the latest version of Google's new iPhone app.

Apple's latest iPhone commercial showcases Shazam, an app that listens to music playing nearby and tells you which song it is... sometimes...

Somewhere in between PDAs and smartphones (with tiny screens and tinier keyboards) and full-size laptops are the new breed of portable digital device, alternately referred to as "subnotebooks" or "netbooks". The next big thing is... small.

Gmail started misbehaving for some people right around the time the Android was introduced (coincidence?), but attempting to resolve this problem led to the discovery of a cool way to make Gmail work better on your iPhone.

The small AC plug that attaches to the iPhone's USB charging cable is being recalled. Apple warns iPhone owners not to continue using it to charge their phones, given the danger of electric shock. An exchange program will commence soon.

Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates, together in a commercial for Microsoft... not that there's anything right with that!

Jott was a very cool web application that converted your voice recordings into text and forwarded them to wherever... for free. Then the company decided it wanted to make money. How did Jott change the landscape of texting as a social interaction tool, and did their curtailing of their free service change it back again?

After persistent pressure from developers, Apple promises an SDK for the iPhone by February 2008.

One of Verizon Wireless's new phones, the Voyager from LG, seems to be a combination of their existing enV phone and Apple's iPhone. Does it live up to that description?

An extremely hysterical entry from Ed Johnson's Hacknot blog, on how (not) to conduct professional job interviews for technology positions.

If this is the answer, what was the question? Given Microsoft's history being behind the curve on just about everything, is this parody really that farfetched?