TechnologizerApps & Software
An iPhone case with a built-in bottle opener? That’s nothing new. It’s a whole category, with contenders such as this and this. But the creators of the $35 Intoxicase say that it’s the first one that comes with an app that uses …
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Last month, cloud gaming pioneer OnLive put its sophisticated technology to a new purpose: running Windows 7 on an iPad. It launched OnLive Desktop, a free service that let you use Word, Excel and PowerPoint–the real, …
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Jesse Hicks of The Verge has written an excellent story on the history of Research In Motion–from founder Mike Lazaridis’s Lego experiments as a four-year-old all the way through to its current woes, with lots of interesting …
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Is Microsoft finishing up work on a version of Office for the iPad? On Tuesday, The Daily’s Matt Hickey reported that it was, and got a lot of folks–me included–excited.
Now Microsoft is disuputing Hickey’s account of …
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FOLLOW-UP: Office for iPad: The Plot Thickens
People have been wondering whether Microsoft would release a version of Office for the iPad for almost as long as there’s been an iPad. Now Matt Hickey of The Daily has what seems …
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Back in 2008, a search engine called Cuil launched. Its founders included several folks with impressive backgrounds in the search business. It claimed to be the world’s largest search engine, and said that it had figured out an …
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It figures. I wrote a post about Windows 8 that included the current Windows logo, a fancy multicolored-waving-window-thingie-hovering-inside-a-glossy-circle. And then, shortly after pressing “Publish,” I read a Microsoft blog …
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Microsoft’s Windows is a shameless imitation of Apple’s Macintosh.
You can debate whether that’s true. You can’t, however, argue that it’s not conventional wisdom: Apple has even joked about it in product launches.
But it …
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When Bump debuted on Apple’s iPhone App Store in March 2009, it was one of the apps that helped to define the iPhone. It let you transfer contact info with another iPhone owner by bumping your phones together, a clever idea that …
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In October of 2010, Apple held a media briefing at its Cupertino campus. It called the event Back to the Mac, and one of the key pieces of news was the first public showing of OS X 10.7 Lion, an upgrade to its Mac operating …
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After a developer discovered that the Path social-networking app was silently uploading iPhone users’ address books to its servers, a whole lot of other shoes — that is, other apps doing similar things — started to …
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Jonathan Schwartz was the last CEO of once-mighty Sun Microsystems before it was swallowed up by Oracle in 2010. Now he’s back with a new startup in an entirely different line of business than Sun. It’s called CareZone, and it’s …
