For years, hard-disk kingpin Seagate has tried to jazz up the image of the humble hard drive. For a while, it used the slogan “Your on,” which led insufficiently hip people to wonder if it had made an embarrassing typo. It also …
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Are Notebooks Becoming Relics?
Ben Bajarin is a principal at Creative Strategies Inc., a technology industry analysis and market intelligence firm in Silicon Valley. He contributes to the “Big Picture” opinion column that appears every Monday here on …
Have Consumers Maxed Out On TV Purchases?
TV fatigue has appeared to have set in. No, not in terms of TV viewing, which even with the rise of cord cutting and increased use of the Internet for entertainment, seems to be as strong as ever. But in terms of new TV purchases. For the first time ever—yes, ever—shipments of LCD flat-screen TVs have declined.
via TV Sales: Even …
Pogoplug Review: The Ups and Downs of DIY Cloud Storage
Between Dropbox, Google Drive, SkyDrive and SugarSync, there are plenty of options for backing up your files online. But to store an entire hard drive’s worth of data with any of these services, you’ll have to pay hefty, …
Video: How to Save a Wet Cell Phone
So you dropped your phone in the toilet. Here’s a cheap and simple trick that just might save it.
Mobile user? Click here to see the video.
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The Secret Origin of Surface
The New York Times‘ Nick Wingfield has a good backgrounder on the roots of Microsoft’s decision to design and sell its own tablets. Basically, he says, Surface stemmed from Microsoft’s alarm over both the iPad’s ambition and the lack of ambition exhibited by Windows PC makers:
Microsoft learned through industry sources that Apple had
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TechRadar’s Surface Hands-On Is an Actual Surface Hands-On
At Microsoft’s launch event for its Surface tablets on Monday, it let the assembled journalists get their hands on some sample units–sort of. We were able to hold turned-off Surface for Windows RT systems to gauge their feel and weight and try the built-in kickstand. We could try out examples of the keyboard cover that weren’t actually …
Flipboard Launches Android Version of Its Popular News Reading App
Good news, Android users. Flipboard has officially made its reader app available in Google Play.
What is Flipboard? Ask someone with an iPhone — nearly 1 million of them downloaded the app after its first week of release, …
Smartphonatics: How the Smartphone-Obsessed Are Changing Our Society
A new breed of smartphone users–smartphonatics–are changing the way we bank and play. A lot of it makes life easier. Some of it is just plain rude or obsessive.
via Smartphonatics: The Smart Phone Obsessed Are Changing Our …
6 Things Windows Phone 8 Still Needs to Succeed
With Windows Phone 8, Microsoft will redo the plumbing of its mobile operating system to allow more diverse hardware and easier app development.
At last, Windows Phone will support multi-core processors, HD screen resolutions …
10 Mac Apps that Need MacBook Pro Retina Support (and Pronto)
Yesterday the unthinkable happened: my local Apple Store got their mitts on a mid-grade MacBook Pro with Retina display they could actually sell. That’s right: Instead of putting it out on one of their tables with a security …
Why Microsoft’s Surface Unveiling Was So Vaporous
The blogosphere is still buzzing over Microsoft‘s Monday bombshell: the biggest name in software is going to start selling its own Windows 8 tablets. The reactions to Surface are all over the map — depending on whose take you …