The Week in iOS Apps: Hear, hear!

This week’s roundup of iOS apps offers all kinds of listening options—whether you’re staying at home, partying at the club, or going to see your favorite band in concert.

How Apple, Other Tech Companies Take Advantage of U.S. Tax Code

Watch Video | Listen to the Audio JEFFREY BROWN: And we turn to a side of the tech revolution that rarely gets attention: How much do our leading tech companies pay in taxes? The New York Times has taken a close look at Apple, one giant among many that take perfectly legal steps around a tax code written for an earlier industrial age. The Times reported that Apple, headquartered in Cupertino ...

GeekDad Interview: Author-Illustrator Tony DiTerlizzi

Tony DiTerlizzi's new book, A Hero for WondLa, was just released this week and he's currently on his book tour. It's a sequel to The Search for WondLa, and both books are great sci-fi stories for kids, with gorgeous illustrations and wonderful characters. I spoke with DiTerlizzi over Skype last week just before his tour began, and had a fun conversation about the WondLa series, being dads ...

Romney’s human shield

The campaigns end this fall, but their flacks will never go away. Meet Eric Fehrnstrom, enforcer on the GOP side

Coverup at Washington Times

Editors knew there was an apparent plagiarist on staff but let him keep writing. An exclusive look inside the paper