The Deck ad network is shutting down

The Deck, an ad network whose funding members included Daring Fireball, Kottke and Waxy, announced today that it’s shutting down.As a simple, clean ad network focused on independent websites,The Deck  may have seemed like a bit of a throwback — and indeed, in his blog...

Your next smartphone is not going to be a revolution

Samsung promised a revolution today. The company opened today’s Unpacked event by contextualizing the history of mobile phones, from the 1980s to today. The conceit was simple: Today’s big announcement marks a step in cell phone evolution akin to the jump from the...