Internet
A court just blew up internet law because it thinks YouTube isn’t a website
Yesterday the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals decided in favor of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in a lawsuit over HB 20, a bizarre law effectively banning many apps and websites from moderating posts by Texas residents. The court granted Paxton a stay on an earlier ruling to block the law, letting HB 20 go […]
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Smartphone
Springboard: the history of the first real smartphone is now on Youtube
- Deanne Drexler
- December 8, 2021
- History
- real
- smartphone
- Springboard
- Youtube
In 1998, Donna Dubinsky and Jeff Hawkins quit Palm, a company they’d founded, to begin a new one: Handspring. They had a simple goal in mind: to eventually create the smartphone. Years before any of the technology was actually ready, their tiny startup began laying the necessary groundwork for what would become the Treo. In […]
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