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Toshiba’s Thrive 7: Still Searching for the Perfect 7-inch Tablet
The laptop kingpin’s second tablet has a nifty screen and a convenient size, but the overall package falls far short of iPad-level excellence.
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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How the iPad 2 Became My Favorite Computer
Can the iPad replace a PC?
Ever since Apple announced its tablet nearly two years ago, the Internet has been awash in discussion of this question. Most of it has had a pretty theoretical feel and has gravitated toward …
TechnologizerCES 2012
At CES, Everyone’s a Keynoter
One thing that people seem to have missed in all the hubbub over Microsoft saying that it’ll stop doing keynotes at the Consumer Electronics Show after 2012: Doing a CES keynote isn’t exactly a singular honor.
In fact, …
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A Few New Year’s Resolutions for Tech Companies
Constructive advice for HP, Google, Netflix and RIM–because hey, nobody’s perfect.
TechnologizerMicrosoft
Don’t Pine for Bill Gates, Microsoft Fans
Putting the kibosh on one of 2011′s biggest non-stories, Bill Gates has said he isn’t going to return to full-time work at Microsoft. Thank heavens. His current gig as a philanthropist matters far more than anything he might …
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Tech 2012: Please Don’t Call These Predictions
A few best- and worst-case scenarios for the year ahead, on Microsoft, Apple, Facebook and more.
TechnologizerApps & Software
Zite’s Personalized Magazine App Comes to the iPhone
It’s been a busy week for mobile applications that mimic the feel of a magazine, but with content from an array of sources. First, iPad hit Flipboard arrived on the iPhone. Then Google unveiled Currents, an iOS and Android app …
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First Look: OnLive’s Cloud Gaming Service Comes to Tablets and Phones
Know any serious PC gamers? The odds are sky-high that they’re also serious experts on PC hardware.
That’s because 3D gaming requires more sheer computing horsepower than any other home-computing task. Ardent game players, …
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‘Napster’ Is No More
After being bought out in October by eternal archrival Rhapsody, music subscription service “Napster” has shut down. Heading to Napster.com now gets you an explanation of what happened and a Rhapsody sales pitch.
I put “Napster” in quotation marks–-a practice I’ve followed, albeit inconsistently, for years–-because the …
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Facebook and Privacy: Imperfect Together
So help me, I like Mark Zuckerberg. I’m glad he invented Facebook in his Harvard dorm back in early 2004 and has devoted himself to it ever since. The world, and my life, are richer for it.
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Consumers Don’t Care About Windows Tablets? No Problem
Research firm Forrester has conducted a survey that supposedly reveals that consumer interest in Windows-based tablets–once quite high–is now tanking. Forrester is concluding that Microsoft has therefore missed the opportunity to compete strongly with the iPad, since the first serious Windows-based tablets won’t show up until …
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Windows Phone 7.5: Microsoft’s Overachieving Underdog
The new update to this inventive mobile operating system is a real alternative to the iPhone and Android.
