Once again, as a new Apple product announcement was imminent, I asked you to make collaborative predictions about it by taking a survey. Sixteen-hundred of you took up the challenge. Now that we know what the new iPad is like, …
New iPad Launch: Why Everything We Think We Know About Apple’s Events Is Wrong
Apple’s product launches may be the most obsessively-covered media events on the planet — presidential press conferences possibly excepted — but that doesn’t mean that people understand them.
Apple iPad Event Live Coverage
Join us at 1pm ET (10am PT) for moment-by-moment news from Apple’s San Francisco event, as it happens.
LINK: TIME.com/iPad3
The Last Word on iPad Predictions (Yours!)
Less than 12 hours from now, this post will be obsolete. Apple’s iPad event will be well underway, and all speculation about the company’s news–the speculation that began the moment the iPad 2 was announced last year–will …
SXSW Interactive Is Nearly Here (and I’m Hosting a Panel)
Austin’s South by Southwest began in 1987 as a music festival. In 1994, it added interactive — a topic better known as “technology” — and film to the mix. And in recent years, it’s just exploded. Especially the Interactive …
Coming Wednesday: Our Live Apple iPad Event Coverage
I snapped the above photo of San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center with my iPhone on Monday night. On Wednesday at 1pm ET (10am PT) I’ll be inside, in the audience for Apple’s iPad event. As the news breaks, I’ll liveblog it here at …
Lytro’s Light-Field Camera: Photography, Reimagined
In the world of technology, there are three kinds of change. There’s the subtle, never-ending process of refinement we call evolution. There’s revolution, which is like evolution in fast-forward mode. And then, every once in a …
Coming in 2025: Android Yogurt-Covered Pretzel
As anyone who pays close attention to Android knows, Google names each update to its mobile operating system after a sweet treat, and does so in alphabetical order. Like the Vatican releasing smoke to signal the election of a new …
Ka-Ching! Square’s New App Turns the iPad into a Cash Register
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 …