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Please Don’t Call It Trash-80: A 35th Anniversary Salute to Radio Shack’s TRS-80
Quick — name the most important personal computer of the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Those of you who mentioned the legendary Apple II–that’s fine. I respect your decision. Forced to think objectively in 2012, I may even …
Metro No More: Windows’ New Interface Suffers Trademark Woes
A few weeks ago, I met with a Microsoft executive and asked him a question about Metro, the streamlined user interface that both Windows 8 and Windows Phone sport, albeit in different versions. In the course of replying, he said …
Microsoft’s Fresh New Outlook on Webmail
And the startling news from Microsoft just keeps coming. It’s not just ripping up Windows, selling its own PCs and trying to get consumers to pay for Office as a service. The company is also launching an ambitious new web-based …
Yahoo’s New IntoNow Update Lets You Do More with TV
Apple Buying into Twitter: Neither Likely nor Implausible
We already know that Apple is a Twitter fan. It’s baked the social network into both of its operating systems, OS X and iOS, in a manner that’s a departure from its tradition of building every possible aspect of its products …
I’m Interviewing Ken Segall, Author of Insanely Simple, Next Tuesday
Lots of people–too many people, really–have written books that attempt to explain what made Steve Jobs’ Apple so remarkable. Author Ken Segall has some advantages others don’t: As Jobs’s ad-agency creative director for more …
Wait, Apparently the Government Did Create the Internet After All
Yesterday, I wrote about Gordon Crovitz’s bizarre contention, in a Wall Street Journal opinion piece, that it’s an “urban legend” that the U.S. government created the Internet. (He says that Xerox’s PARC lab deserves the credit.) Other folks have been chiming in–including some who know a lot more about this stuff than I do.
Charles …
Babson Professor: Apple’s Crazy, Bing-like Attempt to Force People Everywhere to Act like American Teenagers Will Fail
Marty Anderson is a senior lecturer at Babson College, the noted business school in Wellesley, Mass. He’s a self-professed Apple fan. But he’s not impressed by Mountain Lion, the OS X upgrade that hit the Mac App Store …
How Government Did (and Didn’t) Invent the Internet
Last night, I happened across an article by Slate technology scribe Farhad Manjoo. He was responding to an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal by the Journal’s former publisher Gordon Crovitz. And when Manjoo explained …
Apple OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Review: The Mac’s Lion Adventure Continues
How do you prep a venerable computer operating system to flourish in late 2012 and beyond?
We’re about to get answers to that question from both Apple and Microsoft, in the form of major upgrades to the world’s two most …
More Proof That the Future of Tech Is Unknowable
ZDNet’s Ed Bott has an entertaining post on tech research giant Gartner and its predictions and advice for the tech industry. Such as its 2006 proposal that Apple get out of the computer business and license OS X to Dell:
“Apple should leverage its close relationship with Intel and team up with Intel’s closest ally, Dell,” the report
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