The iTunes Killer
Nicholas Ciarelli is an assistant product manager at The Daily Beast.
Apple's worst nightmare, and a music lover's best friend, is about to cross the Atlantic. Spotify offers free, infinite music-and it's all legal.
The Fourth of July is the perfect time to put patriotism in your pocket with DECLARATION FOR iPHONE, a free iTunes "app" that engraves the Declaration of Independence onto your phone for easy reference, along with historical notes, brief...
A former political operative, recovering copywriter, and failed sitcom writer, Mark Katz is now the founder and principal of the Soundbite Institute, a creative think tank that specializes in on-message humor. His essays have been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and Time magazine, and he is the author of CLINTON & ME: A Real Life Political Comedy, an account of eight years as the in-house humor speechwriter of the Clinton White House.
Is Steve Jobs Obsolete?
Alan Deutschman is a Daily Beast columnist. His next book, Walk the Walk: The #1 Rule for Real Leaders, will be published in September by Portfolio. He is also the author of Change or Die, A Tale of Two Valleys, and the Second Coming of Steve Jobs. He has been a Silicon Valley correspondent for Fortune, the “Profit Motive” columnist for GQ, a senior writer at Fast Company, and a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and New York Magazine.
After false rumors that Apple's founder would appear at its big conference today, his biographer, Alan Deutschman, reports Jobs has already lost one title: most indispensable CEO.
The Virus Coming to Your Computer Next Week
As vice chairman of Public Strategies and president of Maverick Media, Mark McKinnon has helped meet strategic challenges for candidates, corporations and causes, including George W. Bush, John McCain, Governor Ann Richards, Charlie Wilson, Lance Armstrong, and Bono. McKinnon is co-chair of Arts & Labs, a collaboration between technology and creative communities that have embraced today's rich Internet environment to deliver innovative and creative digital products to consumers.
You may think you're getting something for nothing when using file-sharing software, but Mark McKinnon reports that such downloads leave users vulnerable to identity theft and other invasions of privacy. And are you ready for the Conficker virus?
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
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Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Gerald Posner is The Daily Beast's Chief Investigative Reporter. He's the award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism. His latest book, Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power—A Dispatch from the Beach, was published in October. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the author Trisha Posner.
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