TechnologizerApple
Apple’s product launches may be the most obsessively-covered media events on the planet — presidential press conferences possibly excepted — but that doesn’t mean that people understand them.
TechnologizerTablets
Less than 12 hours from now, this post will be obsolete. Apple’s iPad event will be well underway, and all speculation about the company’s news–the speculation that began the moment the iPad 2 was announced last year–will …
TechnologizerSocial
Austin’s South by Southwest began in 1987 as a music festival. In 1994, it added interactive — a topic better known as “technology” — and film to the mix. And in recent years, it’s just exploded. Especially the Interactive …
TechnologizerApple
I snapped the above photo of San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center with my iPhone on Monday night. On Wednesday at 1pm ET (10am PT) I’ll be inside, in the audience for Apple’s iPad event. As the news breaks, I’ll liveblog it here at …
TechnologizerGadgets
In the world of technology, there are three kinds of change. There’s the subtle, never-ending process of refinement we call evolution. There’s revolution, which is like evolution in fast-forward mode. And then, every once in a …
TechnologizerGoogle
As anyone who pays close attention to Android knows, Google names each update to its mobile operating system after a sweet treat, and does so in alphabetical order. Like the Vatican releasing smoke to signal the election of a new …
TechnologizerApps & Software
Square, the startup that democratized credit-card transactions with its little plastic doohickey which allows any business (or anyone) to accept plastic as a form of payment, is at it again. It’s built a new iPad application …
TechnologizerApple
Marketing guru and prolific author Seth Godin is unhappy with Apple. As he explains–in a blog post called “Who decides what gets sold in the bookstore?” — he submitted his new book, Stop Stealing Dreams, to Apple for electronic …
TechnologizerApple
This is my first Technologizer post since my blog officially moved into its new digs on TIME.com. So let’s inaugurate things around here by continuing a hallowed Technologizer tradition: making collective predictions about …
TechnologizerApps & Software
Tello is an iPhone app and Android-friendly mobile site that lets consumers rate the local businesses they deal with. Sounds like Yelp? Not really. For one thing, Tello encourages brevity, not rambling reviews: You give a thumbs …
TechnologizerApps & Software
Clarification appended: Mar. 1 2012
Apple’s iPhones have some of the best cameras on any phone, with some of the best software. That hasn’t stopped a bunch of companies from trying to build even better, more feature-filled …
TechnologizerApple
On Wednesday, March 7th at 1pm ET (10am PT), Apple will hold an iPad-related media event at one of its favorite venues, San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Gardens. At least one new iPad model is presumably a done deal, and there are …
