Best Buy, the company that dominates consumer-electronics retailing in the U.S., isn’t doing so well at the moment. As CNET’s Larry Dignan writes, it reported a $1.7 billion loss for its fourth quarter, and is responding with a …
Camera Awesome Adds Instagram Support, Loses One Cool Feature
Instagram is my favorite photo-sharing service. SmugMug’s excellent Camera Awesome has became my default iPhone picture-taking app. So when I learned this week that there was a new version of Camera Awesome with built-in …
CNBC: Half of American Households Have Drunk the Apple Kool-Aid
Certain people who dislike Apple products still reflexively refer to people who do like them as mindless, Kool-Aid-guzzling cultists. They’re entitled to their opinion. But the whole notion of the average Apple fan being a nutty …
Box Wants to Be the Cloud-Based File System for Mobile Business Apps
There are lots of great productivity apps for the iPhone and iPad. I use several of them every day, and prefer them, in some cases, to traditional PC-based programs.
What there isn’t is a great way to move documents and data …
More on ‘Smoked by Windows Phone’: Not Fair, but Not Unreasonable
Over the weekend, a mini-controversy broke out when a Microsoft Store in Silicon Valley refused to declare blogger Sahas Katta’s Android phone as the victor in its “Smoked by Windows Phone” competition, even though it seems to …
Nine Possible Explanations for the Lousy State of Android Tablet Apps
PCMag’s Sascha Segan has created a slideshow comparison of iPad apps and Android tablet apps. The more enthusiastic you are about the potential of Android tablets, the more distressing the show is: with one or two exceptions, the …
GE’s Hundred-Year-Old Bulb: Still Bringing Good Things to Life
How many GE employees does it take to screw in a hundred-year-old light bulb? Hundreds of ‘em — and the neat part is, it’ll still work.
On March 25th, 1912, a bunch of General Electric employees placed a time capsule inside …
Sweet! A Much Nicer SugarSync for iPad
At the new iPad launch, Tim Cook took time out from saying glowing things about Apple products to say something critical about Android tablets: Many apps available for them feel like nothing more than smartphone software that’s …
Our Fabulous Future: Corporate America’s Great Tech-Utopia Movies
The wonders of tomorrow, as revealed by GM, Hewlett-Packard, Apple, Microsoft and other companies in seven decades’ worth of self-serving mini-epics.
Goodbye ‘Card Case’, Hello ‘Pay With Square’
Square’s Card Case app is pretty nifty: It lets iPhone users pay for stuff at over 40,000 retail locations without even removing their phone from their pocket. It may be a sneak peek of the way we’ll all eventually pay for …
Microsoft’s ‘Smoked by Windows Phone’ Gets…Smoked?
[UPDATE: As The Verge's Nathan Ingraham reports, Microsoft's Ben Rudolph has a laptop, a phone and an apology for Skattertech's Sahas Katta. Controversy over!]
Microsoft is holding a “Smoked by Windows Phone” contest which is …
There’s a New Amiga, and I’m a Trifle Melancholy About It
Commodore’s Amiga computer may have been the most dazzling PC of the 1980s. It certainly had the most fanatical following. (I was one of the fanatics.) And now it’s back. Sort of. Okay, not really.
What’s new is a machine …
