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Live Coverage of Nintendo’s Wii U Launch at E3
Jared Newman and I will be at LA’s Nokia Theater in person to liveblog Nintendo’s Wii U launch event as it happens. Our coverage starts Tuesday, June 5 at 12pm ET (9am PT) — hope to see you there.
Newton, Reconsidered
A hands-on assessment of Apple’s pioneering, ill-fated Personal Digital Assistant, twenty years after its original unveiling.
iOS: Can We Declare a Moratorium On the Prison Metaphors, Please?
The Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Micah Lee and Peter Eckersley have published a post about iOS titled “Apple’s Crystal Prison and the Future of Open Platforms.” In it, they do what you’d expect the EFF to do in an item with …
Windows 8 Release Preview: Not Ready for Prime Time, but Closer
For all the ways in which Windows 8 is a bold departure from its predecessors, it’s following a road map to release that’s very much like the one Microsoft has used for years. Last September, the company showed the new version …
Clipboard: A Slick New Way to Save and Share the Web
Windows 8: Microsoft Isn’t Going to Make This Easy. Or Is It?
Michael Mace is a former executive at Palm and Apple, and the CEO of a bootstrapped startup named Zekira. He also blogs at Mobile Opportunity, and his latest item, about Windows 8’s prospects, is the best thing I’ve read about …
Coming June 11: Our Live Coverage of Apple’s WWDC Keynote
It was already all but official. Now it is official: Apple will kick off its WWDC developer confab in San Francisco with a keynote on June 11.
It seems safe to assume that the keynote will feature Apple CEO Tim Cook and other …
Windows Live Is … Dead
The New York Times’ Randall Stross is taking note of what seems to be the final, official end to one of Microsoft’s oddest exercises in branding, Windows Live:
An array of products, with no natural connections to one another,
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WebOS: Dead? Oh, Sure, Almost Certainly — But Not Definitely
In January of 2009, Palm unveiled WebOS, its next-generation mobile operating system. A lot of us got really, really excited over it. It turned out, however, that WebOS’s launch day was its first and only moment of unalloyed …
SketchBook Ink: iPad Art at Retina Resolution, and Way, Way Beyond
Back at the new iPad launch in March, Apple, as usual, invited a few third-party developers to show off upcoming apps. One of them was Autodesk, which demonstrated an intriguing drawing program called SketchBook Ink. After a few …
Bump’s Newest Trick: Phone-to-PC Photo Sharing
Bump is a clever little free app that lets you exchange photos and contacts between two devices instantly and effortlessly by simply bumping them together. Until now, the two devices in question have probably been Android or …