Wikipedia's founder has some choice words for the App Store model, linguists jump on the app bandwagon (appwagon?), and FireWire hits a milestone. The remainders for Thursday, January 13, 2010 can dig it.

(Tech.Blorge)

Wikipedia founder Jimmy "Jimbo" Wales says that the app store model is a threat to Internet freedom--even more so than concerns about net neutrality. Wales called the app store model a "chokepoint." The sentiment was later edited to the less biased "bottleneck" by an anonymous user from Duluth.

(Associated Press)

Speaking of apps, the word "app" was accorded 2010's Word of the Year last week by the American Dialect Society. "App" narrowly beat out "nom" for the award, virtually ensuring that our language will be incomprehensible within the next ten years.