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Jul 29, 2012 11:00 AM   For eight years, Bill Keller was the Executive Editor of the New York Times. Today, he's a full-time writer for the paper of record, and when he talks, people listen. In fact, it turns out people listen even when it's not actually him talking. Like, say, in this deviously clever—and quite realistic!—fake editorial, in which a fake Bill Keller gives a fake rousing defense of WikiLeaks. It's a charming piece of deception; the voice is close enough to Keller's (and even borrows some direct quotes from the victim, as AllThingsD reports), the background looks enough like the real nytimes.com that you'd be forgiven for missing the absent NYT favicon and the incorrect URL format. And plenty of people did just that! Including journalistic notables from Salon, GigaOM, and the NY Times itself. Oh, and Anonymous bought into it, too. In fact, it took an all-caps tweet from Keller himself early this morning to put and end to the confusion: THERE IS A FA...

Jul 26, 2012 6:30 PM   The iPhone 4 and iPad we know today are gadgetry in the extreme—digital pieces of paper, if you will. Nothing garish, nothing in excess. And that's mostly true in their prototypes! But some of these leaked early iPhone and iPad prototypes? They're bonkers. One early iPhone 4 prototype shows edges and angles galore, with diagonal corners, and one of the iPad prototypes even has a kickstand. Yes. A kickstand. You've got to see these. The pictures of these iPhone and iPad prototypes were found in court documents by BuzzFeed and the Verge. Not all the prototypes were strange though. Some prototypes actually look like they'd be real products. Above, there's an iPod Nano-inspired iPhone 4 prototype made with brushed aluminum and complete with rounded corners. Another iPhone prototype labeled n90 actually looks amazing—impossibly thin (though thicker in the middle) and skinny, it looks very much like a delightful candybar. Other prototypes look lik...

Jul 23, 2012 6:58 AM   Google's Nexus 7 tablet is so popular that the 16GB model is sold out on the Google Play store. And that was without any commercials behind it. Here's the Nexus 7's first—about camping. Yes, the Nexus is Wi-Fi only, but hey, the video accounts for that, sort of. Or you could carry a hotspot, or tether, or whatever . What matters is this is adorable. [GoogleNexus via TNW] View the original article here This post was made using the Auto Blogging Software from WebMagnates.org This line will not appear when posts are made after activating the software to full version.