The New York Times managed to get some time with Steve Jobs yesterday after his keynote, and there were some interesting remarks in the interview from Jobs. Apparently his mother never taught him that if he didn't have anything nice to say, not to say anything at all.

First up was the Amazon Kindle (review). This is portable reading device designed by Amazon that

A forum member over at WinBeta snatched up what appears the box art for a Microsoft Plus! Pack designed for Vista. It was taken from an online Canadian store, called Future Shop, who has since removed the listing from their site. It was priced at $39.99 Canadian dollars, and the release date posted was February 15, 2008. The box says that it

Good thing they make those belated birthday cards for people like us who on occasion, forget to celebrate a birthday on the actual date! Yesterday was a big day for Wikipedia, it was the day that they turned 7 years old. If you do a quick search on Wikipedia for Wikipedia (of course they have a page!), you'll find that they

One of the big peeves that I had with the new iPhone and iPod Touch firmware update yesterday was that Apple doesn't give much control over the webclip icons. That's when you bookmark a website to the home screen, and the iPhone snaps a screenshot of the upper-left corner of the screen to assign as the icon.

As it

DreamHost hasn't exactly been known as a leader in web hosting service. While they are in fact cheap, the saying "you pay for what you get" is generally true here.  Their users often complain of uptime issues as well as terrible customer support with the only benefit being the price. So when I heard about their latest debacle, and their

MySQL was acquired by Sun Microsystems today (also here and here) for a whopping $1 billion. I can't say it was something I was expecting after MySQL has remained independent for over 10 years, but in the end I think it will be good for both the companies involved and the users.

The MySQL blog feels that users of the popular database software

It was just two weeks ago that we brought to your attention the Custom Skins gadget for iGoogle personalized homepages. This gadget allows users to create their own skins and submit them to a directory where everybody has access to them. The directory for these custom skins is a great addition, and some of you commented on how nice this was. Along the same lines as the skins directory, Google has just launched an