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Clogging the Courts With Technological Nonsense

Let's take a quick romp through a few recent examples of tech jackassery in the legal system: First, the Supreme Court has declined to review the case of Jammie Thomas-Rasset, the Brainerd, Minn., woman who is one of the more notable victims of the Recording Industry Association of America's insane ... More >>

Apple Updates iTunes, Offering Possible Relief to Music Fans Everywhere

The computer giant named after a piece of fruit announced a shiny new iPhone 5 in San Francisco today, one that comes with a .5-inch larger screen, better camera... and blah. Doubtless people are most excited (or not!) about the new iPhone, but for music fans -- at least those of us still bound to v ... More >>

CNET Tech Reporter Sharon Vaknin Cooks for America's Heartland on PBS

CNET editor and video host Sharon Vaknin writes and films useful tutorials on topics such as maximizing mobile devices and navigating social media platforms at work, but at home she's dreaming up creations like honey roasted peanut crusted chicken skewers and cheesecake-stuffed strawberries for her ... More >>

Facebook's E-Mail Hijack Is Losing Your Contacts

Facebook's latest attempt to force us into something we don't want to do has backfired once again, but this time users might have a really good reason to hate on the social-networking company. Yes, the recent switch over to Facebook e-mail has been annoying at best, but it also seems to actually be ... More >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Who cares about gas lines? Worry about killer cellphone radiation

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Career optimization: Being a journalist in the Internet age

Worms in the Apple

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

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 >>

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

Saul Williams Teams with Trent Reznor, Bucks Industry

BetterKnowanSFBlog: WordPress' Matt Mullenweg

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

Action Taken in Solidarity with Phoenix New Times

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

Stern Reprimand

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

Cops Who SPY

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?

Letters to the Editor

Wednesday, April 12, 2006

Technology Disassembled

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

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.

Download or Die

The RIAA's war on the consumer

Letters to the Editor

Week of May 1, 2002

Night Crawler

Eat, Drink, and Be Wary

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Boob Tube

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

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