My TIME.com Technologizer column this week is about camera phones and traditional digital cameras. I love ’em both. But I’m frustrated by the fact that conventional cameras–which still take the best photos–remain some of the least Internet-savvy gadgets around. (As I say in the piece, most people still get photos off a camera and onto …
Will the end of Eric Schmidt’s nine and a half years as CEO of Google and the return of co-founder Larry Page to that role have an impact on the company’s direction? I’m no Google insider, but I’ll be startled if it has no noticeable effect. In announcing the news today, Schmidt said that Page will call the day-to-day shots while he …
This week’s Technologizer column on TIME.com is about e-books–and how e-reading software for computers and smartphones lets you enjoy them without splurging on a Kindle, Nook, or other piece of specialized hardware. Writing it got me thinking about a fact I’d forgotten about: I started reading e-books back in the mid-1990s, before …
My new TIME.com Technologizer column–now a Thursday feature at the site rather than a Tuesday one–is a recap of the state of the tablet wars as of last week’s International Consumer Electronics Show. There were dozens of upcoming models at the show–new Android models, RIM’s still-a-work-in-progress BlackBerry PlayBook, dark horses …
Back on October 20th, Apple held a press event it called “Back to the Mac.” CEO Steve Jobs explained that the title referred to the company’s desire to take ideas that worked on the iPhone and iPad and bring them to its Mac personal computers. Today, it’s rolling out the most striking reflection of this goal so far: The Mac App Store, …
For this week’s Technologizer column on TIME.com, I wrote about the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), which will take over Las Vegas this week. I’m going to hop on a plane in a few hours and go there myself–and even though the show is massive, crowded, frenetic, and tiring, I’m looking forward to the experience. But if I …
For my latest Technologizer column over at TIME.com, I peered ahead into 2011 and compiled a list of products and trends that should have an impact before the year is out. I tried to avoid making out-and-out predictions: I think that so much is unknowable that if your prognostications pan out it may be due to luck as much as anything …
My Technologizer column over at TIME.com this week is about the time I spent with a Cr-48, Google’s experimental Chrome OS notebook. It’s called “The Promise and Pitfalls of Cloud Computing.” And really, I dislike the buzzword “cloud computing” so much that was a major concession on my part using it at all. Like many buzzwords, it (A) …
For this week’s Technologizer column on TIME.com, I reviewed Google’s Nexus S phone–the new “pure Google” phone that sports Android in exactly the form that Google intended, without any of the manufacturer- or carrier-related modifications that rarely seem to result in a noticeably better handset, and sometimes actively damage the …
In this week’s Technologizer column at TIME.com, I take a stab at answering technology’s longest-running question: “PC or Mac?” My answer won’t please everybody–it’s a topic that instantly sends some people into prickly, combative mode–but it’s the only one that makes sense: “It depends on what you’re trying to do, and how much money …
Here in Silicon Valley, Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak is happily omnipresent–you might run into him in line at your local Apple Store, attending a conference, or going for the gold at a Segway Polo championship. On Thursday, I had my neatest Woz encounter to date: Along with other reporters, I got to participate in a Woz-led sneak peek …
When you’re a tech journalist, writing about Black Friday is obligatory. But the whole idea drives me nuts. So for this week’s Technologizer column for TIME.com, I decided to wait until the week after Thanksgiving, and then share five tips for opting out of Black Friday but still getting good deals on gadgets.
But I could have added a …