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Samsung’s Galaxy S III Reveal May Be Two Weeks Away
Sprint to Get Galaxy Nexus on April 22 for $200
Google’s Galaxy Nexus smartphone is coming to Sprint soon, with an April 22 release date and a price of $200 with a two-year contract.
As with Google’s previous Nexus phones, the Galaxy Nexus runs an unmodified version of …
Making PCs Truly Personal: Visions of a Computer in Every Pocket
Bill Gates shared a vision back when the personal computing era was just starting. As computers were getting smaller — from mainframes, minis, and eventually to desktops — he famously foreshadowed a future with “a computer on …
Apple II Forever: a 35th-Anniversary Tribute to Apple’s First Iconic Product
Thirty-five years ago, on April 16 and 17, 1977, more than twelve thousand proto-geeks flooded into San Francisco’s Civic Auditorium. They were there to attend a new event called the West Coast Computer Faire, and the room …
Fourteen Ways to Celebrate the Apple II’s 35th Birthday
You probably weren’t paying attention when a tiny company called Apple Computer introduced its second product, the Apple II microcomputer, at the West Coast Computer Faire on April 16 and 17, 1977. (I wasn’t.) You may never have …
Photos: The Apple II Turns 35
Hold My Calls, I’m Working from the Brew Cave Today
The Brew Cave is a walk-in beer cooler with a built-in kegerator that measures roughly seven feet wide by seven and a half feet tall by five feet deep and makes me curse the fact that I don’t live in an apartment large enough to …
Google’s Larry Page: We’re Focused On Cheap Android Tablets
Google CEO Larry Page has lent some credence to rumors of a cheap, Google-branded Android tablet, saying in an earnings call that the company is focused on the low end of the market.
Page said “we’re very excited about …
How to Try Windows 8 on Your iPad
With $25, an iPad and a bit of curiosity, you can try Windows 8 on a tablet right now.
Splashtop, a maker of remote desktop software, has released a $25 iPad app called Win8 Metro Testbed. If you’ve got Windows 8 Consumer …
Hands On with Barnes & Noble’s New Nook Simple Touch E-Reader with GlowLight
More than most technologies I can think of, the E Ink screens used in monochrome e-readers such as Barnes & Noble’s Nook Simple Touch and Amazon.com’s Kindle Touch present a stark set of tradeoffs. If you don’t mind the lack of …
Still Missing from ‘One Sony’ Strategy: An Identity
The press release about how Sony plans to save itself is a long, dull slog, but a perfectly logical one. Here’s the short version of the plan, known as “One Sony”:
- As its core business, Sony will focus on gaming, digital
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