TechnologizerApps & Web
When I last (and first) wrote about App.net — an ad-free, developer-friendly, would-be Twitter competitor — I was wondering whether it would meet its goal of raising $500,000 via a Kickstarter-esque crowdfunding system by …
TechnologizerHistory
On Saturday, my wife and I went to run some errands at a shopping center in Santa Clara, California, in the heart of Silicon Valley. As we pulled into the parking lot, we let out simultaneous little startled gasps: Micro Center, …
TechnologizerTwitter
Dalton Caldwell is a San Francisco entrepreneur who founded iMeem (a music-centric social network which was bought and then shuttered by MySpace) and Picplz (which lost the iPhone photo-sharing war to Instagram). Back on July 1, …
TechnologizerApple
Last week, I had a lot of fun interviewing Ken Segall, author of Insanely Simple, about his time as one of the creative minds behind Apple’s advertising. We had a packed house at the Computer History Museum, but if you weren’t there, you can catch up on the event in its entirety…right here.
TechnologizerForm + Function
On Monday and Tuesday of this week, I attended a press event at Sprint’s headquarters in Overland Park, Ks. One highlight was the visits we paid to several of the facilities where the company tests phones and other devices that …
TechnologizerApps & Software
If you stop by Starbucks regularly for a caffeinated fix, you’re about to have a good excuse to try Pay with Square, Square’s mobile-payment app for iPhone and Android. The coffee chain has struck a deal which will result in …
TechnologizerBusiness
A visit to the social-networking giant’s amazing Silicon Valley campus.
TechnologizerFacebook
Sights from Facebook’s new Menlo Park campus.
TechnologizerHistory
TechnologizerHistory
Quick — name the most important personal computer of the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Those of you who mentioned the legendary Apple II–that’s fine. I respect your decision. Forced to think objectively in 2012, I may even …
TechnologizerMicrosoft
A few weeks ago, I met with a Microsoft executive and asked him a question about Metro, the streamlined user interface that both Windows 8 and Windows Phone sport, albeit in different versions. In the course of replying, he said …
TechnologizerApps & Software
And the startling news from Microsoft just keeps coming. It’s not just ripping up Windows, selling its own PCs and trying to get consumers to pay for Office as a service. The company is also launching an ambitious new web-based …
