Apple may be legendary for its refusal to talk about products it hasn’t released yet, but when it announced the second-generation MacBook Air thin-and-light notebook back in October of 2010, it tipped its hand. By calling the new …
A Brief History of Apple’s WWDC Keynotes, 1997-Present
At 1pm ET (10am PT) today I’ll be liveblogging Apple’s Worldwide Developer C0nference (WWDC) keynote, live from San Francisco’s Moscone West. You can join co-host Doug Aamoth and me at techland.com/wwdc12, and I hope you …
Last Chance for Your Apple WWDC Predictions
Forty-eight hours from now, Apple’s WWDC keynote will be nearly over. I’ll be there in person at the Moscone Center, and I hope you’ll join me by attending our liveblog coverage, where I’ll report the news as fast as I possibly …
At What Point Do We Stop Calling These Things ‘Game Consoles’?
It streams movies, TV shows and sports. It’s getting a new music service. And a web browser. And a new technology which lets it talk to phones and tablets.
Did I mention it plays games?
In case you haven’t figured out yet, …
Let’s Just Say It: Nobody Has a Clue What Smartphone Market Share Will Be in 2016
Research firm IDC has released its latest estimates of current market share for major smartphone operating systems, and its forecast for what the business will look like in 2016. The new data–which says that Android and iOS will …
All Hail Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, King of E3 2012
What’s the biggest story at this year’s E3 games confab in Los Angeles? Most people would pick Nintendo’s Wii U console, I assume, though Microsoft’s aggressive reinvention of the Xbox 360 as an all-purpose computing device is an …
Google Apps, Now with the Added Goodness of Quickoffice
Some Google acquisitions aren’t surprising in the least. But I was genuinely startled to learn that it’s snapped up Quickoffice, a company that’s been making solid office suites for phones and other mobile devices for a long …
Hands On with the Wii U, Nintendo’s Next-Generation Game Console
Most things about personal technology change at a relentlessly fast-forward pace that can make your head spin. Video game hardware design is not one of them.
The three major manufacturers stretch out the useful lives of their …
Live Coverage of Nintendo’s Wii U Launch at E3
Jared Newman and I will be at LA’s Nokia Theater in person to liveblog Nintendo’s Wii U launch event as it happens. Our coverage starts Tuesday, June 5 at 12pm ET (9am PT) — hope to see you there.
Newton, Reconsidered
A hands-on assessment of Apple’s pioneering, ill-fated Personal Digital Assistant, twenty years after its original unveiling.
iOS: Can We Declare a Moratorium On the Prison Metaphors, Please?
The Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Micah Lee and Peter Eckersley have published a post about iOS titled “Apple’s Crystal Prison and the Future of Open Platforms.” In it, they do what you’d expect the EFF to do in an item with …
Windows 8 Release Preview: Not Ready for Prime Time, but Closer
For all the ways in which Windows 8 is a bold departure from its predecessors, it’s following a road map to release that’s very much like the one Microsoft has used for years. Last September, the company showed the new version …