Clarification appended: Mar. 1 2012
Apple’s iPhones have some of the best cameras on any phone, with some of the best software. That hasn’t stopped a bunch of companies from trying to build even better, more feature-filled …
Join Us on March 7th for Live Coverage of Apple’s iPad Event
On Wednesday, March 7th at 1pm ET (10am PT), Apple will hold an iPad-related media event at one of its favorite venues, San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Gardens. At least one new iPad model is presumably a done deal, and there are …
Windows 8 Consumer Preview: One Step Closer to the PC’s Future
Last September, Microsoft showed off Windows 8 in public for the first time. One glance at the operating-system upgrade–heavily influenced by the company’s inventive Windows Phone–was enough to tell you that it was the most …
Yup, It’s Official: Apple iPad Event on March 7
Karma: A Fresh Take on Gift Giving
If the venerable concept of mail-order gift catalogs hadn’t been invented until just now, it might look a lot like Karma. This app for iOS and Android, from a startup of the same name, is focused on helping busy people find and …
Samsung Exec: Samsung’s Not Doing Very Well with Tablets
It’s been almost two years since the first iPad shipped, and no manufacturer has emerged as Apple’s primary archrival in the tablet business. But Samsung has been trying harder than anyone else, with scads of models that take on …
The Microsoft Store: Surprisingly Pleasant
Microsoft opened the first two branches of The Microsoft Store back in October 2009. But its retail chain didn’t reach the San Francisco Bay Area until November of last year, when a branch opened up across from the Apple Store at …
Photoshop Touch: The Best iPad Image Editor Yet
When I do graphics stuff on a computer, I spend 99.994% of my time in one tool: Photoshop. When I do it on my iPad 2–which I’m doing more and more–I jump between multiple apps, including PhotoForge2, iResize, Snapseed, …
Microsoft Office 15: Ready (and Not Ready) for Windows 8
Windows 8, with its radically new touch-centric Metro interface, is all very interesting. But it’s not nearly as interesting as the applications that it will run–the ones that we’ll use to get real work done.
And one of the …
Box Gives Android Users 50GB of Free Cloud Storage
Online storage and collaboration company Box has upgraded its apps for Android phones and tablets. They have new features such as multiple-file uploads, threaded comments on any file and the ability to invite other people into a …
Rampage and Tapper Come to the iPad, and Suddenly Life is Complete
What’s my favorite arcade game of all time? That’s easy. It’s Atari’s Tempest, and I was therefore thrilled when it became available for the iPad and iPhone, along with scads of other vintage games, as part of Atari’s Greatest …
OnLive Desktop Plus: Windows at Its Speedy Best — on Your iPad
Last month, cloud gaming pioneer OnLive put its sophisticated technology to a new purpose: running Windows 7 on an iPad. It launched OnLive Desktop, a free service that let you use Word, Excel and PowerPoint–the real, …