In October of 2010, Apple held a media briefing at its Cupertino campus. It called the event Back to the Mac, and one of the key pieces of news was the first public showing of OS X 10.7 Lion, an upgrade to its Mac operating …
Twitter Has iPhone Users’ Address Books, Too
After a developer discovered that the Path social-networking app was silently uploading iPhone users’ address books to its servers, a whole lot of other shoes — that is, other apps doing similar things — started to …
CareZone, a Private Service for People Who Take Care of People
Jonathan Schwartz was the last CEO of once-mighty Sun Microsystems before it was swallowed up by Oracle in 2010. Now he’s back with a new startup in an entirely different line of business than Sun. It’s called CareZone, and it’s …
Is Windows for ARM a Dead End?
Over at Cult of Mac, John Brownlee has an in-depth explanation of why it seems unlikely that Apple intends to ditch the Intel chips inside Macs for ARM-based ones akin to the processors it uses in the iPhone and iPad. His …
What We Think We Know About the iPad 3
At some point with every upcoming Apple product, the wacky rumors–like two new iPads in different sizes debuting at Macworld Expo–start to tail off. They give way to convincing-sounding reports from news sources which, although …
RIM Director to BlackBerry Critics: No, You’re the Idiots
Roger Martin, the dean of the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, is also a board member of BlackBerry maker RIM. And in an interview with the Globe and Mail’s Gordon Pitts, he’s anything but sheepish about the …
The Windows Start Button Is Dead! Long Live the Windows Start Button!
Is Microsoft eliminating the Start button–a user-interface element that’s practically synonymous with Windows itself–from Windows 8? Last week, that was the scuttlebutt. This week, Windows superblogger Paul Thurrott says that “ …
Waze Gets a Dash of Siri-Like Handsfree Input
Of all the iPhone apps in the world, none have a greater potential to benefit from Siri’s voice input than ones that provide turn-by-turn navigation–since spoken commands would provide not only convenience but safety. (And, in …
Trying to Be Optimistic About a Google Music-Streaming System
The Wall Street Journal‘s Amir Efrati and Ethan Smith are reporting that Google is working on a consumer-electronics system designed to stream music–and, eventually, maybe video and other media–around the home. Their story …
Why We Need a New Definition of ‘PC’
It’s time to update our perceptions about a decades-old device that’s evolving more rapidly than ever.
Doesn’t Anyone Want Americans to Buy Nokia Phones?
Windows Phone 7.5 Mango is an impressive operating system. Nokia makes nifty hardware. So despite Windows Phone’s tiny market share to date and Nokia’s recent woes, I want to be optimistic about the Finnish phone maker’s return …
The Amazon Store of My Dreams
Michael Kozlowski of Good E-Reader is reporting that Amazon.com plans to open a retail store in the Seattle area in the coming months. The store will supposedly feature Kindle e-readers and tablets as well as other products, and …
