The twisted saga of John McAfee continues, much to our great entertainment. The newest installment of this bizarre tale? Mr. McAfee now believes that highers up at Vice orchestrated the release of his location via iPhone metadata so that they could film his inevitable capture and arrest. Read More
Sure, the two-sided Yota phone is cool, but can it eclipse the Kalashnikov and the Lada as widespread Russian technology? [WSJ]
John McAfee isn’t the only fugitive talking to press from the run. Anonymous-affiliated activists Christopher “Commander X” Doyon, who jumped bail in 2011, talks about life on the lam. [Ars Technica]
Google Chairman Eric Schmidt speaks: He’s proud of the company’s tax structures, believes Google+ is a viable competitor to Facebook, and worries that the U.S. will run out of cellular bandwith in the next few years. [Bloomberg]
Let’s all do the social media year in review. Yesterday, Twitter patted itself on the back. Today, it’s Facebook’s turn. Find out the biggest moments in your life last year at the click of a button! [Facebook]
@Pontifex is in the house. [Twitter]
Apple has redrawn a portion of Maps to keep Australians from being led astray into the middle of nowhere. [The Guardian]
Despite the fact that 88 percent of respondents voted to keep the voting structure, Facebook has decided to nix it anyway. Democracy on Facebook is dead, not that it ever really existed to begin with. [TechCrunch]
Here is a rock musical about the life and times of John McAfee. [PandoDaily]
Children’s apps are still fooling parents about what kind of data they collect, including phone number and precise location. [New York Times]
Here’s Twitter’s 2012 week in review. Sadly it doesn’t mention how annoying all those parody accounts got. [Twitter Blog]
When not blogging from a prison cell, antivirus software creator John McAfee is reportedly busy planning the next iteration of his media blitz: The Hollywood Reporter writes that Mr. McAfee has successfully sold his life rights to a TV production company called Impact Future Media.
Mr. McAfee has skillfully played the media these past few months, getting a Wired reporter to speak on his behalf and telling his story to Gizmodo before inviting Vice to join him in his escape from Belize. That decision ended with his capture when a Vice employee published an iPhone photo still containing the metadata that revealed his location. Mr. McAfee still managed to temporarily convince Vice‘s photographer to lie for him. Read More
It was only a matter of time before the endless John McAfee saga became forever immortalized in the Internet’s consciousness by Next Media Animation, the Taiwanese studio that serves as a barometer for all things pop culture. And boy did they do Mr. McAfee’s bizarre, erratic behavior justice. Read More
The Securities and Exchange Commission is considering a civil action against Netflix after CEO Reed Hastings posted on Facebook in June that the company’s customers would soon view 1 billion hours of content a month. Mr. Hastings posted his thoughts on the SEC investigation on Facebook. [Facebook]
Because you’re dying to make “eggnog cinnamon Read More
John McAfee, the antivirus pioneer who has spent the last month blogging about his efforts to elude police in Belize, was arrested last night in Guatemala, apparently for illegally entering the country. Read More
Tim Cook’s not sure where you all got the idea he’s robotic. [Bloomberg Businessweek]
He also confirmed Apple is bringing some manufacturing back to the U.S. No guarantees how much, though. [Bloomberg News]
Get psyched for Skype voice messages. [The Verge]
Hey Best Buy (and all other mega corporations): Maybe don’t assume you can just rip off a startup’s proprietary technology? [Redeye VC]
International fugitive John McAfee has been apprehended in Guatemala, reportedly for entering the country illegally. No word on whether the Vice guys are screwed. [New York Times]
Michael Arrington is very peeved at Instagram pulling Twitter integration. So peeved he felt it necessary to slap on a Winnie the Pooh hat and write a rant. [TechCrunch]
This is what the earth looks like at night. [NASA]
It’s confirmed: Antivirus pioneer John McAfee has made it out of Belize (his 20-year-old girlfriend and a couple of Vice yahoos in tow) and into Guatemala, where he is now petitioning for asylum. What’s more, according to the latest post to his blog, he would like to please meet the prime minister of Belize on neutral ground to work through their supposed “mutual issues.”
Which inspires us to wonder which techie ex-patriot is the bigger pain in the butt: McAfee, or Megaupload mastermind Kim Dotcom. If you were an immigration official required to admit one of these loudmouthed, trouble-making characters, who would you choose?
Let’s break it down: Read More
The sordid tale of John McAffe’s flight from the Belizean police has had a little bit of everything. Poisoned dogs, automatic weapons, disgusting disguises, bath salts—to say nothing of the fake North Korean passport, benighted rants on political corruption Central America-style, even a lesson on the importance of wiping GPS data from your iPhone pics when on the lam. One thing it’s lacked: True Love.
Oh sure, Mr. McAfee has blogged on Belize’s bar-girl culture, and offered a seemingly honest accounting of his own relationships with young, impoverished women. (“Many have commented that these women were only with me because of my money – a fact that I have to agree with,” he blogged on November 19 title “Love and Deception.”)
Well, there’s nothing like a few weeks on the run to let romance blossom. Read More
