Square, the startup that democratized credit-card transactions with its little plastic doohickey which allows any business (or anyone) to accept plastic as a form of payment, is at it again. It’s built a new iPad application …
Please, Apple, Stay Out of the Book-Vetting Business
Marketing guru and prolific author Seth Godin is unhappy with Apple. As he explains–in a blog post called “Who decides what gets sold in the bookstore?” — he submitted his new book, Stop Stealing Dreams, to Apple for electronic …
Your Mission: Predict What Apple’s Announcing at Its iPad Event
This is my first Technologizer post since my blog officially moved into its new digs on TIME.com. So let’s inaugurate things around here by continuing a hallowed Technologizer tradition: making collective predictions about …
New ‘Tello’ Feature Lets Consumers Talk Back to Businesses
Tello is an iPhone app and Android-friendly mobile site that lets consumers rate the local businesses they deal with. Sounds like Yelp? Not really. For one thing, Tello encourages brevity, not rambling reviews: You give a thumbs …
Camera Awesome: A New Camera for Your iPhone
Clarification appended: Mar. 1 2012
Apple’s iPhones have some of the best cameras on any phone, with some of the best software. That hasn’t stopped a bunch of companies from trying to build even better, more feature-filled …
Join Us on March 7th for Live Coverage of Apple’s iPad Event
On Wednesday, March 7th at 1pm ET (10am PT), Apple will hold an iPad-related media event at one of its favorite venues, San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Gardens. At least one new iPad model is presumably a done deal, and there are …
Windows 8 Consumer Preview: One Step Closer to the PC’s Future
Last September, Microsoft showed off Windows 8 in public for the first time. One glance at the operating-system upgrade–heavily influenced by the company’s inventive Windows Phone–was enough to tell you that it was the most …
Yup, It’s Official: Apple iPad Event on March 7
Karma: A Fresh Take on Gift Giving
If the venerable concept of mail-order gift catalogs hadn’t been invented until just now, it might look a lot like Karma. This app for iOS and Android, from a startup of the same name, is focused on helping busy people find and …
Samsung Exec: Samsung’s Not Doing Very Well with Tablets
It’s been almost two years since the first iPad shipped, and no manufacturer has emerged as Apple’s primary archrival in the tablet business. But Samsung has been trying harder than anyone else, with scads of models that take on …
The Microsoft Store: Surprisingly Pleasant
Microsoft opened the first two branches of The Microsoft Store back in October 2009. But its retail chain didn’t reach the San Francisco Bay Area until November of last year, when a branch opened up across from the Apple Store at …
Photoshop Touch: The Best iPad Image Editor Yet
When I do graphics stuff on a computer, I spend 99.994% of my time in one tool: Photoshop. When I do it on my iPad 2–which I’m doing more and more–I jump between multiple apps, including PhotoForge2, iResize, Snapseed, …
