Good news for everyone who has had their iPhone stolen (or probably just lost it somewhere last night when they blacked out, but “stolen” sounds so much less humiliating): The NYPD has officially put out a memo telling its officers about the amazing Find My Phone app, which could allow them to retrieve your missing Apple product from the back of your taxi, where you left it. Read More
On a charming August night, The Observer was sitting on our fire escape with two friends, having cigarettes, having beer. We had brought out an iPhone dock, a diminutive speaker machine that plays music right from a mobile device, at a decent, but not offensive-to-the-neighbors, volume.
Then, with a jerk of an arm, there came Read More
On a recent Friday night, a 22-year-old in his first year of living in New York hosted a late get-together in his Little Italy apartment. Everyone there would call it a good party, but it decidedly lacked a climax.
Until 10 in the morning, a dozen attractive men and women—day laborers in film, public Read More
When a worker at China’s Foxconn tech sweatshop fell to his death last Friday it was only the latest tragedy at the megasized iPhone production plant. There have been at least 10 suicides this year, and the fact that protective nets now flank the facility’s dormitories doesn’t exactly inspire cheer. At this point, Foxconn Read More
Romenesko was nice enough to post the outtakes from Poynter Online’s interview with New Yorker staffer George Packer in which he reveals his “5 Tips for Reporting on Anything.” Packer handled the Iraq War beat for the magazine, files at the Interesting Times blog on the New Yorker’s website, and has Read More
