My TIME.com column this week is about the golden age of Web browsers we’re currently living in–and especially the release this week of Internet Explorer 9. The browser, which debuted on Monday at the South by Southwest Interactive geekfest in Austin, is the best new Microsoft browser in eons. It’s on a par with other major browsers in …
Austin’s South by Southwest conference conference has a relentless emphasis on the new–new tech startups, new movies, new music. But as I explored the event’s bustling trade-show floor this week, one of the things I was happiest to come across was old. Really old.
When I saw a booth festooned with Kodak signage, I assumed that it was …
When Apple unveiled the iPad back in January of 2010, the company’s competitors rightly saw a huge opportunity. Now that Steve Jobs & Co. had created the first modern tablet computer, other manufacturers could build on the ideas it originated. They could offer features that it didn’t. They could deliver more bang for the …
My Technologizer column over at TIME.com this week is about the end of the PC era–which, I’ve decided, already happened awhile ago while nobody was looking. There are so many Internet-connected computing devices of all sorts in our lives–phones, TVs, tablets, e-readers, and more to come–that the PC is merely one among many rather than …
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The iPad doesn’t show up at retail stores until 5pm on Friday, but the first reviews of big tech products usually break on Wednesday evenings–and so a bunch of major sites rendered their verdicts on Apple’s second-generation tablet tonight.
There are no …
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Flash vs. HTML5. HTML5 vs. Flash. Whatever your take on the respective merits of the two high-profile technologies for creating splashy Web content, you can’t deny that the rivalry between Adobe’s venerable Flash and the assortment of evolving open-source …
“We didn’t know anything about videogames–that’s God’s honest truth.” That’s veteran animation director Don Bluth describing his gaming expertise before his studio created the animation for the 1983 arcade game Dragon’s Lair and its 1984 follow-up, Space Ace.
For a guy who says he was oblivious to the world of gaming, Bluth has had a …
On Friday, after several months of atypically harsh coverage of the quality of Google’s search results–see here and here–the planet’s dominant search engine rolled out some major changes. (It says it’s been working on them for months, since before the recent discontent surfaced.) A few quick notes about the update and related …
The most interesting thing about Motorola’s new Xoom tablet–which I reviewed for this week’s TIME.com Technologizer column and is available from Verizon dealers starting today–is that it’s the first tablet that runs Google’s new Android 3.0 Honeycomb operating system. The second most interesting is the support for Verizon’s speedy LTE …
Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto, the greatest videogame designer of them all and a world-class storyteller, created two enduring fantasy universes. One of them involves an Italian plumber who likes to jump over things and pluck coinage from the sky–guy name of Mario, you’re surely heard of him.
The other Miyamoto masterwork is the tale …
As part of my research for this week’s TIME.com column on tech-savvy cars, I got to spend a few days test-driving a 2012 Ford Focus Titanium hatchback that was decked out with MyFord Touch, an advanced infotainment system with an 8-inch color touchscreen, voice input and output, Bluetooth, multiple jacks for hooking up external devices, …
My TIME.com column this week is about Motorola’s Atrix 4G, an Android handset that’s available for pre-order from AT&T starting on February 13th and is scheduled for release by March 6th. I spent most of my wordage on the aspect of the phone that’s unquestionably most interesting: the optional laptop dock that gives the Atrix a big …