Starting soon, people will be able to download apps for their personal robots just like they download apps for their iPhone or iPad.
Reviews & Features
How to Do Original TV Online Properly (Hint: Study Netflix)
With Netflix now having multiple series of original content in various levels of production, including shows that it beat out HBO and other cable channels for the rights to, you might be forgiven for thinking that 2012 was going …
First Privacy, Now Censorship: Will Twitter Continue to Stand Up for Its Users’ Rights?
You may not like its latest redesign, but Twitter deserves praise for how it stands up for its users’ rights. In the face of legal pressure last year, Twitter fought for user privacy. This year, its new challenge will be …
Four Industries Apple Can Disrupt in the Near Future
Tim Bajarin is the president of Creative Strategies Inc., a technology industry analysis and market intelligence firm in Silicon Valley.
How to Prevent a New Year’s Eve Tech Hangover
From embarrassing photos to lost phones to inebriated texting, learn how to prevent tech-related regrets in the first hours of 2012.
What Will 2012 Mean for Social Media?
On the one hand, it’s easy to predict where social media’s going over the next 12 months: more of the same, with the sublime, ridiculous and mundane occurring in equal amounts, both reaffirming and quashing our faith in humanity …
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.
Looking Forward to 2012: The End of Media Ownership
Ah, that final week between Christmas and New Year, when we look backward at all that happened and forward at the year to come. And what a year to come–one that could bring not only the so-called Mayan apocalypse, but also John …
5 Game Stories to Watch in 2012
Goodbye 2011, you tumultuous, fickle, lovely year — hello 2012, another 365-day stretch full of promises, disappointments, and with a little luck, a few pleasant surprises as well. While we’re recovering from Christmas candy …
Looking Forward to 2012: Ultrabooks
As 2011 quickly draws to a close, here’s what I’m most looking forward to in 2012. Check back each day this week for similar pieces from Graeme, Jared, Matt and Keith.
Ultrabooks
It’s taken the PC industry a while to reach …
Science Proves Twitter Really Has Become More Sad Since 2009
Well, this is depressing: A team of scientists from the University of Vermont appears to have proven via the judicious use of Twitter that people have been gradually growing more and more unhappy over the last three …
A Few New Year’s Resolutions for Tech Companies
Constructive advice for HP, Google, Netflix and RIM–because hey, nobody’s perfect.