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Matt Cherette: Good morning, Gigi. Good morning, JuJu. No-no, NuNu! more »
LUV_TRUK: Some of my best friends are Chinamen! more »
jpee: I heard some Chinese nerds are making some iphone app called "Fat" with a Chinese person faking to speak with an American accent in Chinese. Instead o... more »
psybab: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Douchebaggery more »
native_67: Is this really the state of hyper-sensitivity to which our society has come? Some guy gets an idea for a harmless app and takes a shot at doing voice... more »
1Lmonster: they dont even have fortune cookies in china...who cares? more »
nathanieljames: This app isn't going to change the fact that I, an Asian, will continue to make fun of people of all races...and the people who would allow such a sho... more »
J. Frank Parnell: So, my software development team has the green light for the "Covetous Jew Precise Tip Calculator" and the "Mexican Border Hopper Job Finder" apps? more »
PattiF: I hate it when people do things. more »
badasscat: Ok, I have no experience at all with this app, but as the husband of a Japanese woman, I will say that it's true that at least Japanese (and no, they ... more »
Drunken Economist: Re; The last two, I'm trying to remember the iPhone reading apps that used to do that before the devs 'fixed those bugs.' Stanza? Kindle? Oh well, yo... more »
olafhumbert: App of the future: For $6, a the McSweeney's author of your choice will come to your kid's party and make balloon animals and/or blurb your unpublishe... more »
random_play: They could have avoided this whole controversy by the simple expedient of turning Japanese. And traveling back in time to 1980, when you could get... more »
NigelAstydameia: Lay off! Rosie needs the work! more »

#traderoundup

'Good Morning America': Now With 100% More Minorities!
Well, after a week of is-he-or-isn't-he, it looks like that, no, Chris Cuomo will not be taking over for Diane Sawyer on ABC's "Good Morning America". George Stephanopoulous is. And JuJu Chang will takeover for Cuomo, who is leaving. Whew. More »
#printisdead

Standing Up To Steve Jobs
They apparently imagine themselves as the rebel alliance in Star Wars, and Steve Jobs as Darth Vader, these publishers quoted in Ad Age. And they're determined to escape the iTunes Store tractor beam, a gorgeous Apple tablet notwithstanding. More »
#racebaiting

Chinese People Loved Ching-Chong iPhone App, Says Programmer
Yesterday we wrote about LuckyFortune, the iPhone app dripping in Chinese caricature. Its inventor has written in to defend that app as inoffensive, uplifting, "light hearted and fun." Chinese Americans told him so! More »
#precious

Everything Annoying in the Universe in One iPhone App
Dave Eggers, lord of twee literature, has declared he will personally save print media. But not until the author and McSweeney's publisher starts selling this lamentable little iPhone app. More »
#racebaiting

iPhone Gets First Racially Offensive App
Apple has taken flack for over-policing its iPhone App store. But sometimes the company under-polices, as well. As with LuckyFortune, a fortune cookie app built around what can only be descrived as a "ching-chong Chinaman" theme. More »
#apple

Steve Jobs Deceives Again, Says Google Evidence
Steve Jobs and Apple famously dissembled about the CEO's health, until Jobs took a six-month medical leave. And what did Jobs do on his return? Issued a controversial statement about Google that the search company has now flatly contradicted. More »
#feuds

Steve Ballmer's Two Minutes of iPhone Hate
Microsoft's CEO seems determined to live out a career of comical self parody. Steve Ballmer, who suppposedly hurled a chair in an anti-Google tantrum, has acted out his iPhone rage in a Seattle stadium. How Big Brother can you get? More »
#foursquare

Code Theft Allegations Can't Stop iPhone Bubble
Foursquare has raised its first venture capital investment, and it couldn't have been easy: There are persistent rumors the social networking company stole its code from Google. Plus, it wanted to invest the money in a domain name. Ooof. More »
#toys

Jay-Z's Attempt To Kill Autotune: Fail
Autotune, the technology giving guys like T-Pain, Akon, and Kanye West's 808s & Heartbreak their trademark sounds, was supposedly murdered by Jay-Z. Not so much: the I AM T-PAIN iPhone app enables ordinary folk to sound just like him. More »
#copyfight

Drudge Death Panel Murders iPhone App in Stalinist Snafu
Just as we suspected he would, Matt Drudge demanded Apple kill iDrudge, the iPhone app created by a fan to read his website. But the right-wing protoblogger then reversed himself in a stunning flip fliop. Siren time! More »
#apple

The Fevered Fantasies of Apple's Fanboys
One Wall Street analyst predicts Steve Jobs will show up for Apple's Apple's iPod event next week; others doubt it. The frenzied chatter is just one way people turn into hysterical teenaged girls before these Apple things. Especially online. More »
#tributes

Drudge Fan's iPhone App Helpfully Strips Out Advertising
Oh, look at that: A self-professed fan of blogger Matt Drudge has released iDrudge, an apparently unauthorized iPhone app for reading the Drudge Report. No need to zoom in, like in Mobile Safari. Also: No ads! More »
#iphone

Five Augmented-Reality iPhone Apps We'd Actually Buy

Sometime next month, new iPhone software is supposed to ease the way for "augmented reality" apps, which digitally superimpose data on the world, as seen through the phone's camera. Very cool idea and, so far, very boring execution. Think, people! More »
#hackfights

Testy Day at Business Insider
Looks like the languid, late summer days are not exactly relaxing the insiders over at Business Insider and Silicon Alley Insider. Editors Nicholas Carlson and Dan Frommer have a veritable slapfight going. Check out the warring headlines: More »
#megalomaniacs

Measuring Steve Jobs Recuperation Through His Minions' Anguish
Steve Jobs really is getting better! Rumors that the Apple CEO is being an impossible bastard to his staff have been confirmed by the Wall Street Journal, to whom said staff leaked details of their torment. Old Steve is back. More »
#flackery

A Steve Jobs Confession, a Fanboy Shock
Yes, Steve Jobs is that evil. Silicon Valley spent the past month convincing itself AT&T just absolutely had to be responsible for kicking the useful Google Voice application off the iPhone App store. Whoops, it was Dear Leader. More »
#smartphones

Workers of the World, Cast Off the Yoke of iPhone-ism!
T-Mobile and CB Richard Ellis were sued by employees for requiring, but not paying wages for, after-hours communication via smartphones. Past court decisions, involving pagers, have hinged on employees' ability to engage in "personal pursuits." More »
#citizenpaparazzi

Steve Jobs' Privacy Compromised with Device He Invented
Unlike other Silicon Valley honchos, Steve Jobs is famous enough to interest TMZ. How did the celeb-stalking site catch Apple's CEO leaving his Cupertino headquarters today? Not with a pricey telephoto rig, but with one of those ubiquitous iPhones.
#crime

iPhone Avenges Burglary for Man, Boy
Apple's two-month-old "Find My iPhone" has already jailed a criminal: A 15-year-old tracked down two iPhones and a wallet stolen from two cars. "As soon as I told [a police officer] the address, he started to laugh." Revenge is priceless.
#cubicleculture

Steve Jobs Nursing Self to Health By Being Maddening Bastard Again
Apple is poised to release a tablet computer early next year, according to AppleInsider. But first, picky CEO Steve Jobs gets to have some fun driving his engineers completely insane. More »

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