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Stephen Chao — who was fired from a top position at the News Corporation after, in separate incidents, hiring a male stripper to disrobe at a company meeting and nearly drowning Rupert Murdoch’s dog at a party — plans to announce on Wednesday the formation of a Web video company that he hopes to build…

NYTimes: CES Sucks

The NYTimes has a piece on CES suggesting that the high signal to noise ratio is making it increasingly difficult for companies to leave their mark here and launch a successful product. Yes. Yes, I agree. Please, bring back the summer CES session, and split this beast in half. I think companies understand this. So…

Pogue Reviews the OLPC

David Pogue is right about the OLPC in his NYTimes column this week. For those of you who haven’t kept up with the changes in the One Laptop Per Child he sums it up nicely, demoing all the engineering miracles in the machine, addressing the low minded complaints of "snarky bloggers" (Where?!), going on to…

Two NYTimes reporters are relentlessly covering the iPhone Bricking episode. Saul Hansell interviews Palm and confirms that AT&T isn’t worried about Treos bringing down the network, and Katie tells the tale of her daughter’s iPhone bricking that had nothing to do with an unlock. I wonder what David Pogue and Walt Mossberg have to say…

I was interviewed by Katie Hafner of the NYTimes for a piece, Altered iPhones Freeze Up. The NYTimes gets how important this is to us. [NYTimes]

David Pogue reviews macro software that’ll speed up your computer usage; he ends up with a list of 5 for the Mac and PC you might find useful. [NYT]

iPhone Applecare $80$69 For an Extra Year, Says Pogue [UPDATED: Confirmed]

[UPDATED: Confirmed at $69.] Applecare is supposed to be available for the iPhone this month, and the price may be $80. Joel Johnson, walker-of-Gizmodo-halls-of-lore, noticed this statement in Pogue’s Missing Manual PDF, on page 277: “The iPhone comes with a one-year warranty. If you buy an Applecare contract ($80) you’re covered for a second year.…

Nobody Picks on Pogue But Me

OMG, the internet is beating up Pogue for his iPhone video. We like picking on the guy, even when we’re praising the authoritative, yet mainstream-accessible NYTimes gadget columnist. (See our photoshop contest entitled “Make David Pogue Cool“.) And we’ve had our share of blog fights with the guy. But when I see the Huff Po,…

The Making of David Pogue’s iPhone music video, with Gizmodo shoutout. [NYTimes] https://gizmodo.com/david-pogues-iphone-the-musical-275383

Pogue’s iPhone Video Review

This is why we love Pogue. He reviews it, goes meta, and gives Mossberg a poke. And btw, he hates AT&T’s EDGE network. [NYT]

Breaking: Pogue Reviews the iPhone, Gives it 1.5 Thumbs Up

David Pogue of the NYTimes got his iPhone review up (the first one by 3 minutes. Suck it, Mossberg!), oh boy! So what’s he think of it? Well, he likes it. Sort of. He’s taken with the design, but has some reservations overall. First, he likes the design. The phone is so sleek and thin,…

Pogue on Email For Dumb Phones

Pogue’s video tells us how to read our email on Dumb Phones. (You like that? That’s my name for every handset not a Treo, Windows Mobile, or BlackBerry.) https://gizmodo.com/pogue-on-email-for-dumb-phones-263962 He checks out GMail and Yahoo’s apps, but faults them for being unavailable on many of the locked-down phones that carriers sell us. He much prefers…

David Pogue’s “Geek to Me” Show Airs Tonight

Set the TiVo! David Pogue’s new show Science Channel show, which he writes and stars in, starts tonight. 8 pm on the Science Channel! Every Fri for 6 weeks. Also on Discovery HD starting June 7. It’s going to be like a 30 (60?) minute version of the funny videos we link to on the…

NYTimes’ Pogue Tests High Def Hard Drive Camcorders

Pogue’s back from vacation, and this week, he’s taking a look at high def hard drive camcorders (or, HDHD camcorders), marveling at the gadgets that giving your boring home videos the same picture pizazz as professional HD content. In his words, the picture is “sharp enough to slice a tomato.” And your goofy dad will…

NYT Pulp Watch: Pogue Spanks Sansa’s Connect for Lame Yahoo! Connection

David Pogue of the NY Times saw so much potential in the Sansa Connect, the Wi-Fi music player that can tap into Yahoo’s big online database without a PC in sight. But it disappointed him. And you know what happens when daddy is disappointed. Spankings. Sansa’s chief ingredient: instant real-time flat-fee access to anything in…

NYT Pulp Bite: Pogue on 802.11n-ightmare Routers

Not an easy two weeks for the Poguester. First, he pulls an all-nighter putting together last week’s video. And this week, he spends four days trying to get the N routers from Belkin, Linksys and Netgear running at the claimed speeds. That 300Mbps rating? It must have been measured on the moon, he quips. https://gizmodo.com/nyt-pulp-bite-pogue-on-why-tivo-still-rocks-250155…

Sony’s $20 Million Dollar Ad Campaign Dupes Pogue’s One Day Video

The NYTimes writes that Sony spent $20 million at the BBDO advertising agency, so they could make some lighthearted gadget ads. A portion of that large sum bought them a Sony Handycam commercial that showed a 20 year old acting like a baby in a bathtub so his parents could relive his infant moments. What…

NYT Pulp Bite: Pogue on Why TiVo Still Rocks

I am 100% in accordance with Pogue’s reasons why TiVo Series 3 is still an important gadget that deserves your love. And David blows away last week’s off-topic video with an animated deathmatch of TiVo versus a generic cable box. TiVo wins, all courtesy of broadband bits! Here’s why: In a day of Xbox 360…

Round Up Reference: The Best Apple TV Posts from Giz and Friends

Most of us have reached a turning point. That point is, if you hear anything else about Apple TV you’re going to vomit. Don’t hold it back, or it’s going to come out your nose. But maybe you’re of the mind to actually buy one, and need to do some hard research. If so, bookmark…

My David Pogue Obsession Continues: Latest NYT Gadget Video Has Boobs, Arson and Snark

[Updated for improved fairness] What the shit is this? I think New York Times’ David Pogue just challenged the Internet to a gadget-video deathmatch. I just saw this video where he cranks an iPod speaker backpack to 11 in a quiet library, has a bikini’d babe dunk it in a hot tub, and finally drenches…