TechnologizerCompanies
Our Fabulous Future: Corporate America’s Great Tech-Utopia Movies
The wonders of tomorrow, as revealed by GM, Hewlett-Packard, Apple, Microsoft and other companies in seven decades’ worth of self-serving mini-epics.
Harry McCracken
Harry McCracken is an editor at large at TIME, where he writes about personal technology for the magazine and TIME.com. He’s been a gadget nerd since the late 1970s and is the founder of Technologizer and the former editor in chief at PC World magazine. He's talked tech on everything from the History Channel to Dateline NBC to NPR's Science Friday. Contact him at harry_mccracken@timemagazine.com.
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TechnologizerSmartphones
Goodbye ‘Card Case’, Hello ‘Pay With Square’
Square’s Card Case app is pretty nifty: It lets iPhone users pay for stuff at over 40,000 retail locations without even removing their phone from their pocket. It may be a sneak peek of the way we’ll all eventually pay for …
TechnologizerSmartphones
Microsoft’s ‘Smoked by Windows Phone’ Gets…Smoked?
[UPDATE: As The Verge's Nathan Ingraham reports, Microsoft's Ben Rudolph has a laptop, a phone and an apology for Skattertech's Sahas Katta. Controversy over!]
Microsoft is holding a “Smoked by Windows Phone” contest which is …
TechnologizerComputers
There’s a New Amiga, and I’m a Trifle Melancholy About It
Commodore’s Amiga computer may have been the most dazzling PC of the 1980s. It certainly had the most fanatical following. (I was one of the fanatics.) And now it’s back. Sort of. Okay, not really.
What’s new is a machine …
TechnologizerTablets
The New iPad Is Out. What Now, Everybody Else?
In 2010 Apple released its first iPad. It was far from the industry’s first tablet computer, but it was the one that defined the category. Its successor, 2011′s iPad 2, was so thin and light that it reset people’s expectations …
TechnologizerApps & Software
Adobe’s Photoshop CS6 Beta: Even a Little More Magical
TechnologizerApps & Software
CorelDraw Turns Sixteen
Corel’s flagship software product, CorelDraw, has been around since 1989, making it among the most venerable packages in the business. I’ve been using it nearly that long (since version 2 or 3, I think). Today, the company …
TechnologizerTablets
The New iPad Display, Tested and Praised
My friend Dr. Ray Soneira, president of DisplayMate Technologies, has been evaluating computer displays for a long time. In recent years, he’s turned his attention to smartphone and tablet screens — and he’s published a piece …
TechnologizerInnovation
SXSW Watch: Wolfram on Wolfram Alpha
I don’t think of myself as having the brain of a fanboy. But I do cheerfully admit to getting a little giddy when it comes to Wolfram Alpha. I think that this “computational knowledge engine” is one of the web’s most impressive …
TechnologizerApple
Helping Apple Spend Its Dough: Fun While It Lasted
So Apple has decided what it wants to do with a sizable chunk of the $100 billion it has salted away: It’s going to start issuing a dividend to its shareholders, and will buy back some of its own stock. If you own Apple stock or …
TechnologizerTablets
New iPad Review: A Sharper Focus for Apple’s Tablet
Remarkably high resolution and LTE wireless broadband make the market-dominating tablet even more formidable.
TechnologizerMicrosoft
Hey, It’s Microsoft Office 15!
Windows expert Paul Thurrott got his hands on a copy of Office 15, currently available only as a secret Technical Preview which Microsoft hasn’t said much about. He has some details and a ton of screenshots on the new version of …
