Catching Up: Today's Best Tech Stories

Frederic Lardinois

25 Jul 2011

Lots of news today – even for a Monday. Amazon gave in to Apple’s demands – but decided not to fully play by its rules – and removed the ability to buy books from its iOS app. Other companies, including eBook vendor Kobo, made similar decisions.

On the opinion side of the tech business, calls for Microsoft to sell Bing and for Google to allow (or disallow) anonymous users on Google+ kept the pundits busy.

For these stories – and many more – take a look at the Pearltrees widget below (just click on any headline to read the full article):

📝Google's surprise AI podcast hit

Google used to be a company where experimentation was encouraged -- or at least it felt like that from the outside. Now it's hard to remember when Google last launched a new product that was an immediate hit. But with NotebookLM and its AI podcasts, Google finally scored

🪧 Pressed words

I don't think anyone outside of Matt Mullenweg had the recent WordPress/WP Engine drama on their bingo card for this year. After a bit of early confusion, I think it's now clear that this is, in many ways, an extension of the open source discussions

🔒Now's the time to prepare for the post-quantum era

I've followed the development of quantum computing for the better part of the last decade. For the longest time, it's been "just around the corner" and with the advent of generative AI, any of the hype around the technology has receded into the background.

The week after CrowdStrike

It's been a week... Given everything that's happened lately, it's hard to believe that the CrowdStrike outages hit only a week ago. We're now deep in the clean-up phase of that particular disaster and while the blame for this particular incident falls

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📝Google's surprise AI podcast hit

🪧 Pressed words

🔒Now's the time to prepare for the post-quantum era

The week after CrowdStrike