Sir Jony (Credit: Apple) Jonathan Ive, Apple's senior vice president of industrial design, won't say what his company is working on, but he believes it's extremely important. Speaking in a sprawling interview published today by the Daily Telegraph, Ive couldn't decide which Apple product he'd most like linked to him. He told the Telegraph that choosing a device with knowledge of Apple's future product launches just isn't so easy. "It's a really tough one," said Ive, who was knighted today in the U.K. "A lot does seem to come back to the fact that what we're working on now feels like the most important and the best work we've done, and so it would be what we're working on right now, which of course I ... Continue reading →

That's "Sir Jonathan Ive" to youJony Ive, Apple’s Senior Vice President of Industrial Design, swapped sunny Cupertino for London today to receive his knighthood from Princess Royal at Buckingham Palace. The 45-year-old Brit, who is responsible for the iconic designs behind Apple’s computers and iOS devices, said he is “both humbled and sincerely grateful” for the “absolutely thrilling honor.”While in the capital, Ive also gave what is likely his most revealing interview yet to British broadsheet The Telegraph, in which he talks about Apple’s design and its focus on simplicity, Steve Jobs, and the company’s current projects.Our [Apple's] goal is to try to bring a calm and simplicity to what are incredibly complex problems so that you’re not aware really of the solution, you’re not ... Continue reading →

Unfiltered Orange | Weekly eDiscovery News Update – May 23, 2012 eDiscovery News Content and Considerations 7th Circuit eDiscovery Pilot Program Tackles Technology Assisted Review - bit.ly/LjdGij (Allison Walton) ABA Working Group Issues Interim Report on eDiscovery in Bankruptcy Cases – Electronic Discovery Law – bit.ly/KJpyM4 (K&L Gates) Another Step Forward: District Court Affirms Seminal Decision Authorizing Computer-Assisted Review – bit.ly/JooXtm (William Vita) Contract Attorneys – The Latest Addition to the Endangered Species List – bit.ly/LaMCPq (Brandon Hollinder) Cooperation Does Not Mean Collaboration - bit.ly/JTWD5l (Charles Holloway) Coping With Preservation and Proportionality in Legal Holds – bit.ly/J1luS9 (Monica Bay) Courts Increasingly Cognizant of eDiscovery Burdens, Reject “Gotcha” Sanctions Demands - bit.ly/KYGcWj (Philip Favro) Da Silva Moore and the Role of ACEDS – bit.ly/JVpoQp (Sharon Nelson) ... Continue reading →

Google CEO Larry Page has been on a bit of a tear lately, showing up in the US and England to discuss both the company's future and the challenges it's currently facing. In a 40-minute interview with Charlie Rose that aired on May 21st, Page covers a lot of ground, touching on the rise of Google Chrome, driverless cars, and his company’s recent decision to provide office space to Cornell University in order to incubate its nascent high-tech campus. Later, Page discusses his company’s disagreement with Facebook over contact portability, saying that users "don’t understand" that they can’t bring their Facebook contacts to Gmail. He goes on to challenge Facebook’s justification for the practice, saying "they claim it’s a privacy issue, but it’s not really, ... Continue reading →

Gero Breloer/DPA A Google Street View car taking photographs in Berlin. German regulators sought information on data Google collected. Secrets spilled across the computer screen. After months of negotiation, Johannes Caspar, a German data protection official, forced Google to show him exactly what its Street View cars had been collecting from potentially millions of his fellow citizens. Snippets of e-mails, photographs, passwords, chat messages, postings on Web sites and social networks — all sorts of private Internet communications — were casually scooped up as the specially equipped cars photographed the world’s streets. “It was one of the biggest violations of data protection laws that we had ever seen,” Mr. Caspar recently recalled about that long-sought viewing in late 2010. “We were very angry.” Google might ... Continue reading →

For those that missed Sunday night’s episode of The Simpsons, there was a brilliant “couch gag” in the opening credits: the Simpson family animated by The Ren & Stimpy Show mastermind John Kricfalusi. The bit (above) was bizarre, awkward, weird (yes that’s Homer pouring a beer directly into his cranium), and wonderful. Basically, it’s all the [...] Texas governor and presidential candidate Rick Perry is floating the idea of invading Mexico. Too late: The U.S. military is already up to epaulets there. 10.03.11 From Danger Room The United States, Australia, Canada, Japan, Morocco, New Zealand, Singapore and South Korea signed the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement on Saturday, an accord targeting intellectual property piracy. 10.03.11 From Threat Level Ten years ago this month, in a small-ish theater ... Continue reading →

The U.S. Army's massive Long Endurance Multi-Intelligence Vehicle. Illo: Northrop Grumman TAMPA, Florida — Sure, it took an extra year or so, but Northrop Grumman has finally penciled in the first flight of the giant surveillance airship it’s building for the U.S. Army. The Long Endurance Multi-Intelligence Vehicle, a football-field-size, helium-filled, robot blimp fitted with sensors and data-links, should take to the air over Lakehurst, New Jersey, the first or second week of June, says K.C. Brown, Jr., Northrop’s director of Army programs. “We’re about to fly the thing!” he crows. It’s fair to say Northrop and the Army are crossing their collective fingers for the flight to actually take place, and smoothly. Giant airships promise huge benefits — namely, low cost and long flight ... Continue reading →