Last week, I had a lot of fun interviewing Ken Segall, author of Insanely Simple, about his time as one of the creative minds behind Apple’s advertising. We had a packed house at the Computer History Museum, but if you weren’t there, you can catch up on the event in its entirety…right …
A Visit to Sprint’s Phone Testing Labs
On Monday and Tuesday of this week, I attended a press event at Sprint’s headquarters in Overland Park, Ks. One highlight was the visits we paid to several of the facilities where the company tests phones and other devices that …
Pay with Square at Starbucks: The Biggest Moment Yet for Mobile-Phone Wallets
If you stop by Starbucks regularly for a caffeinated fix, you’re about to have a good excuse to try Pay with Square, Square’s mobile-payment app for iPhone and Android. The coffee chain has struck a deal which will result in …
Inside Facebook’s World
A visit to the social-networking giant’s amazing Silicon Valley campus.
Photos: Life at Facebook
Sights from Facebook’s new Menlo Park campus.
Photos: The Places Facebook Called Home
Please Don’t Call It Trash-80: A 35th Anniversary Salute to Radio Shack’s TRS-80
Quick — name the most important personal computer of the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Those of you who mentioned the legendary Apple II–that’s fine. I respect your decision. Forced to think objectively in 2012, I may even …
Metro No More: Windows’ New Interface Suffers Trademark Woes
A few weeks ago, I met with a Microsoft executive and asked him a question about Metro, the streamlined user interface that both Windows 8 and Windows Phone sport, albeit in different versions. In the course of replying, he said …
Microsoft’s Fresh New Outlook on Webmail
And the startling news from Microsoft just keeps coming. It’s not just ripping up Windows, selling its own PCs and trying to get consumers to pay for Office as a service. The company is also launching an ambitious new web-based …
Yahoo’s New IntoNow Update Lets You Do More with TV
Apple Buying into Twitter: Neither Likely nor Implausible
We already know that Apple is a Twitter fan. It’s baked the social network into both of its operating systems, OS X and iOS, in a manner that’s a departure from its tradition of building every possible aspect of its products …
I’m Interviewing Ken Segall, Author of Insanely Simple, Next Tuesday
Lots of people–too many people, really–have written books that attempt to explain what made Steve Jobs’ Apple so remarkable. Author Ken Segall has some advantages others don’t: As Jobs’s ad-agency creative director for more …