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  • Blogs

    December 9, 2011

    Sergio Calderón, S.F. Man Whose Home Was Searched for Missing iPhone Prototype, to Sue Apple

    The elusive Siri​Sergio Calderón, the San Francisco man who got tangled up in an Apple scandal, says he will sue the Silicon Valley-based company for what his lawyer is calling an "outrageous" and illegal search. CNET reported the news today, detailing that negotiations between Calderón, 22, and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 31, 2011

    Starting Today, Off The Grid Takes Over Second and Folsom for Lunch

    Courtesy of Bacon BaconBacon Bacon serves lunch today in Soma.​Starting today, Off the Grid is bringing lunch to Second and Folsom Streets every weekday for the next four or five months.Two food trucks will be parked in front of 303 Second Street, an office-retail space currently undergoing re ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 26, 2011

    Missing iPhone 5: SFPD Wants Surveillance Video from Bar Where Apple Employee Lost Device

    ​San Francisco police have reportedly asked the owners of Cava Bar in the Mission -- the spot where an Apple employee supposedly lost a prototype of the unreleased iPhone 5  -- for surveillance footage as part of an internal investigation regarding the SFPD's questionable search into the miss ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 7, 2011

    SFPD Launches 'Internal Investigation' into Controversial Search for Missing iPhone 5

    ​It appears that the police officers and Apple security employees who stoked a tech-industry scandal with their controversial search for a lost device rumored to be the unreleased iPhone 5 will themselves be the object of law-enforcement scrutiny.The San Francisco Police Department has launched an ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 2, 2011

    Lost iPhone 5: Bernal Heights Man Says Visitors Impersonating Police Searched His Home (Exclusive)

    ​A Bernal Heights man says that six officials claiming to be San Francisco Police officers questioned him and searched his family's home in July for a lost iPhone 5 prototype they asserted had been traced to the residence using GPS technology.The man's statements to SF Weekly in an exclusive inter ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 2, 2011

    Lost iPhone 5 Update: Police 'Assisted' Apple Investigators in Search of SF Man's Home

    ​The bizarre saga involving a lost prototype of the iPhone 5 has taken another interesting turn. Contradicting past statements that no records exist of police involvement in the search for the lost prototype, San Francisco Police Department spokesman Lt. Troy Dangerfield now tells SF Weekly that " ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 1, 2011

    Lost iPhone 5 Prototype: SFPD Says It Has No Records of Investigation

    ​Yesterday we related an interesting scoop that popped up on CNET: the tech-news site reported that a prototype of Apple's latest iPhone model had been lost in a San Francisco bar, echoing a similar incident last year that led to embarrassment for Apple and legal threats against the gadget blog Gi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 15, 2011

    Anonymous Hackers Use Social Media to Mobilize for Tonight's BART Protest

    Anonymous​When BART blacked out cellphone service last Thursday night in an attempt to foil protesters, hacker group Anonymous has swung into action, organizing a rally for this evening that has commuters steeling themselves for service disruptions. Whether or not you think the rallies are an ef ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 19, 2011

    Why Are Tech Journos Suddenly Interested in News Corp. Scandal?

    ​When I was a staff editor at the tech-news site CNET News.com in the late '90s, one of the top editors there used to insist that we "localize" big news events by writing about how they were being covered and discussed on the Internet. So, for example, the death of Princess Di and the impeachment ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 29, 2011

    Google Made It Easy for Anyone to Stalk You

    There are some things Google should not know​When it comes to privacy, it's usually Facebook's amorphous policies that have people riled up -- you know the ones who are always frantically checking to make sure strangers can't see those damning photos that have no business being online in the first ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 14, 2011

    Apple Employee Wants to Unionize

    Taking a bite out of Apple​There's a great scene in The Social Network where Andrew Garfield's character, Eduardo Saverin, storms into the Facebook office, picks up Mark Zuckerberg's laptop, and sends him a strong message by shattering it.That's the sort of scene we imagined when word got out that ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 22, 2011

    Apple Asked to Scrap Apps That Help Users Evade DUI Checkpoints

    What does your app tell you?​Earlier today, SF Weekly told readers about the controversial gay-cure app that's put Apple at the center of an uncomfortable high-tech debate about religion and gays. Now, U.S. lawmakers are challenging the company to scrap another iPhone app -- one that alerts users ... More >>

  • News

    September 22, 2010

    Who cares about gas lines? Worry about killer cellphone radiation

    What does your app tell you?​Earlier today, SF Weekly told readers about the controversial gay-cure app that's put Apple at the center of an uncomfortable high-tech debate about religion and gays. Now, U.S. lawmakers are challenging the company to scrap another iPhone app -- one that alerts users ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 14, 2010

    Sprint 4G's San Francisco Future To Be Decided By Board of Supervisors

    Not here you don't...​San Francisco's route to really fast handheld Internet access has slowed to a crawl as activists in Bernal Heights have compelled a Board of Supervisors hearing over their concern that broadband antennae might shake loose in the event of an earthquake and accidentally zap res ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 16, 2010

    Google May Launch iTunes Rival, Rock Concert Injuries, Shred Guitar on Your iPhone

    Bono, your ruined back totally ruined our week​Google may launch music store to battle with iTunes this fall. [CNET]U2 had to postpone tonight's show in Oakland due to Bono's back injury. Disappointed, the Chron assembles a list of famous rock injury moments. [SF Gate]Members of Oakland noise-psy ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 6, 2010

    Judge Keeps Warrant Under Wraps in iPhonegate

    There are some things you can't even do with a newfangled iPhone...​A San Mateo County judge today ordered that a search warrant used to search a Gawker Media editor's home be kept secret, leaving media organizations in the dark as to what exactly police hoped to find in the home of Gizmodo editor ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 9, 2010

    It's Your Friday Morning News Quiz!

    Another week in the books here in San Francisco...​By now you should be well acquainted with the drill. Answer all the questions right, mail us a perfect score, and we'll give you a prize. Nice! 1. Who is Gregory Giusti? A. The Cal State East Bay professor charged in a bevy of child porn/molestati ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 18, 2010

    If NY Times Is So Damned Ethical, What's Up With Payola-Meister David Pogue?

    ​Regular Readers of The New York Times will be rushing to newsstands this weekend for yet another possible installment in a series by Ombudsman Clark Hoyt's that may as well be called "When It Comes To Enforcing Ethical Guidelines, We're Soup Nazis." On Dec. 12, Hoyt dedicated his Sunday column t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 7, 2009

    Tech Scene Rickroll: Then the Internet Ate Itself, and Exploded.

    We've been discussing the emergence of a new species of meta-nerd here at SFWeekly.com; as this Paste Magazine infographic demonstrates, being cool in late 2009 means donning your "Three Memes One Shirt" shirt to work, interrupting your co-workers with "Im'ma let you finish ...," and/or buying your ... More >>

  • News

    December 2, 2009

    Career optimization: Being a journalist in the Internet age

    We've been discussing the emergence of a new species of meta-nerd here at SFWeekly.com; as this Paste Magazine infographic demonstrates, being cool in late 2009 means donning your "Three Memes One Shirt" shirt to work, interrupting your co-workers with "Im'ma let you finish ...," and/or buying your ... More >>

  • News

    November 11, 2009

    Worms in the Apple

    Two rebels take on America's most beloved computer company.

  • Blogs

    October 22, 2009

    Salty and Delicious: It's a Bacon Bake Sale!

    The usually businesslike lobby of the building on Second Street that houses CBS Interactive (yes, that CBS) looked like the lawn of a suburban elementary school this afternoon. Folding tables strewn with carefully labeled homemade baked goods were set up on the polished floors, not far from the mode ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 4, 2008

    Election Day Photos: Part 2 (Starbucks and SF MOMA)

    The usually businesslike lobby of the building on Second Street that houses CBS Interactive (yes, that CBS) looked like the lawn of a suburban elementary school this afternoon. Folding tables strewn with carefully labeled homemade baked goods were set up on the polished floors, not far from the mode ... More >>

  • Music

    March 19, 2008

    Saul Williams Teams with Trent Reznor, Bucks Industry

    The usually businesslike lobby of the building on Second Street that houses CBS Interactive (yes, that CBS) looked like the lawn of a suburban elementary school this afternoon. Folding tables strewn with carefully labeled homemade baked goods were set up on the polished floors, not far from the mode ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 4, 2008

    BetterKnowanSFBlog: WordPress' Matt Mullenweg

    The usually businesslike lobby of the building on Second Street that houses CBS Interactive (yes, that CBS) looked like the lawn of a suburban elementary school this afternoon. Folding tables strewn with carefully labeled homemade baked goods were set up on the polished floors, not far from the mode ... More >>

  • News

    October 17, 2007

    Alt-Weeklies Provide Web Links to Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Home Address

    Action Taken in Solidarity with Phoenix New Times

  • Blogs

    August 16, 2007

    CNET/H-P Suit: Good Personal Privacy v. Bad Personal Privacy VIolator

    Action Taken in Solidarity with Phoenix New Times

  • News

    June 13, 2007

    Stern Reprimand

    SEIU members in Northern California challenge the national boss over his collaboration with employers

  • News

    September 27, 2006

    Cops Who SPY

    SEIU members in Northern California challenge the national boss over his collaboration with employers

  • News

    September 13, 2006

    I Spy a Scandal

    Silicon Valley stalwart Hewlett-Packard is reeling, under investigation for invading the privacy of journalists and its own board members. Do you see a way out for the computing giant?

  • News

    April 12, 2006

    Letters to the Editor

    Wednesday, April 12, 2006

  • News

    April 5, 2006

    Technology Disassembled

    A columnist defends himself, blames his bosses, and steps deeper into the ethical morass of accepting gifts

  • News

    October 5, 2005

    Agog Over Google

    As a simple Internet search engine has grown into a billion-dollar tech behemoth, the question becomes: Is Google good? Take quiz, find out.

  • Music

    January 29, 2003

    Download or Die

    The RIAA's war on the consumer

  • News

    May 1, 2002

    Letters to the Editor

    Week of May 1, 2002

  • News

    February 9, 2000

    Night Crawler

    Eat, Drink, and Be Wary

  • News

    June 16, 1999

    Letters

    Eat, Drink, and Be Wary

  • News

    June 9, 1999

    Letters

    Eat, Drink, and Be Wary

  • News

    June 2, 1999

    Boob Tube

    No one's watching CNET's high-tech television shows, and for good reason

  • News

    March 18, 1998

    Letters

    No one's watching CNET's high-tech television shows, and for good reason

  • News

    March 11, 1998

    Dog Bites

    No one's watching CNET's high-tech television shows, and for good reason

  • News

    February 25, 1998

    Dog Bites

    No one's watching CNET's high-tech television shows, and for good reason

  • News

    February 11, 1998

    Dog Bites

    No one's watching CNET's high-tech television shows, and for good reason

  • News

    December 24, 1997

    Dog Bites

    No one's watching CNET's high-tech television shows, and for good reason

  • News

    December 10, 1997

    Letters

    No one's watching CNET's high-tech television shows, and for good reason

  • News

    December 10, 1997

    Dog Bites

    No one's watching CNET's high-tech television shows, and for good reason

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