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 …
The New iPad Is Out. What Now, Everybody Else?
In 2010 Apple released its first iPad. It was far from the industry’s first tablet computer, but it was the one that defined the category. Its successor, 2011’s iPad 2, was so thin and light that it reset people’s expectations …
Adobe’s Photoshop CS6 Beta: Even a Little More Magical
CorelDraw Turns Sixteen
Corel’s flagship software product, CorelDraw, has been around since 1989, making it among the most venerable packages in the business. I’ve been using it nearly that long (since version 2 or 3, I think). Today, the company …
The New iPad Display, Tested and Praised
My friend Dr. Ray Soneira, president of DisplayMate Technologies, has been evaluating computer displays for a long time. In recent years, he’s turned his attention to smartphone and tablet screens — and he’s published a piece …
SXSW Watch: Wolfram on Wolfram Alpha
I don’t think of myself as having the brain of a fanboy. But I do cheerfully admit to getting a little giddy when it comes to Wolfram Alpha. I think that this “computational knowledge engine” is one of the web’s most impressive …
Helping Apple Spend Its Dough: Fun While It Lasted
So Apple has decided what it wants to do with a sizable chunk of the $100 billion it has salted away: It’s going to start issuing a dividend to its shareholders, and will buy back some of its own stock. If you own Apple stock or …
New iPad Review: A Sharper Focus for Apple’s Tablet
Remarkably high resolution and LTE wireless broadband make the market-dominating tablet even more formidable.
Hey, It’s Microsoft Office 15!
Windows expert Paul Thurrott got his hands on a copy of Office 15, currently available only as a secret Technical Preview which Microsoft hasn’t said much about. He has some details and a ton of screenshots on the new version of …
Must…Have…Sparrow…For…iPad
I never warmed up to Sparrow on the Mac. But like my colleague Keith Wagstaff, I’m mighty impressed by the new version of the email client for the iPhone. It’s not the ultimate mail wrangler — it can’t push mail in the …