From the View-Master to the iPhone, 14 memorable gizmos that exude a style all their own.
Remembering Andrew Fluegelman, a Quiet Giant of the PC Revolution
I’m Andrew Fluegelman. I have made some money giving away some software for free, and I’m also connected with a couple of big magazines who are supported by advertisers who don’t give their software away for free.
Those are the …
The Knowledge Graph: Google’s Next Frontier for Search
In recent months, Google has been following a strategy it calls putting more wood behind fewer arrows. It involves prioritizing the company’s projects, and you don’t have to be paying very close attention to know that its Google+ …
Browser Wars on iOS? Seems Unlikely
I’d love to see Google’s Chrome browser arrive for iOS devices. I’d be even more thrilled if an all-out browser war broke out on Apple’s mobile operating system, with multiple players going all-out to win the hearts and minds of …
Battle of the Steve Jobs Movies
Right now, if you want to watch a fictionalized version of the story of Steve Jobs, you have one option: the so-so 1999 teleflick Pirates of Silicon Valley, with Noah Wyle as Apple’s cofounder. Before too long, though, there will …
Now Flipboard Does Audio, Too
The beautifully polished, infinitely browsable iPad/iPhone “social magazine” Flipboard is one of the best ways I know to find interesting stuff to read. Starting now, it’s going beyond words by adding a whole new kind of content: …
Wilson Electronics Aims to Boost Spotty 4G
Yep, that’s a phone sitting in a cradle inside a wire-mesh box in the photo above. The box is a Faraday Cage and the phone is inside it because both are part of a demo at Wilson Electronics’ booth at the CTIA Wireless show in New …
Fact-Checking Digitimes, the Taiwanese Apple Rumor Source That Keeps Crying ‘Wolf!’
“It’s key to note that the DigiTimes has a hit-or-miss track record for nailing predictions….”
“Digitimes has a spotty track record with regard to Apple rumors…”
“Given the lack of hard evidence and DigiTimes’s …
Match the Yahoo Memos with the Pollyannaish Sentiments, 2007-2012
At Yahoo, the sun will always come out tomorrow. Or at least that’s my conclusion after reviewing some of the memos that have leaked from the company after its various difficult transitions over the past five years, culminating …
Yahoo Mess: More Proof That Media Companies Don’t Know Anything About Dealing with the Media
And so it ends. This morning, All Things D’s Kara Swisher — whose stories about Yahoo’s crisis over the widely-circulated but false statement that its new CEO Scott Thompson earned a degree in computer science have made for …
Qualcomm’s Tagg: Like ‘Find My iPhone’ for Your Dog
They generally don’t let dogs into tech trade shows — how unfair! — which is why the pooch in the photo above, which I took at CTIA Wireless in New Orleans, is stuffed. He’s helping to demo Tagg, a gadget that uses GPS to help …
Passpoint Aims to Take the Hassle Out of Hotspots
“Excuse me, can you tell me how to get on the wi-fi?”
Several fellow journalists asked me that as I used my iPad in the press room here at the CTIA Wireless conference in New Orleans. Actually, it’s a question I get a lot when …