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Five Questions About Apple’s ‘5’ Event on September 12
Back on July 30, iMore’s Rene Ritchie reported that Apple would announce the iPhone 5 at a press event on September 12. Ritchie is among the handful of Apple rumormongers who are actually pretty reliable and never spout utter …
One Year Later, the iPad Is Still My Favorite Computer
Back in December of last year, I reported on one of the most unexpected things that had ever happened to me as a user of gadgets. I’d begun using an iPad 2 with a ZaggFolio keyboard case as my primary computer. I found that I …
Innovation in a Sea of Sameness
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 week on …
TiVo Stream: Put Your TiVo on Your iOS Devices
I watch TV on more devices than ever, from more sources than ever. But when I’m in my living room in front of my 42″ Vizio HDTV, almost all the TV I watch is TiVo. The DVR that’s synonymous with the DVR remains a great way to …
Coming Soon: 15 Interesting Phones, Tablets and Hybrids
The summer tech drought is over and gadget makers have come out swinging with Windows 8 laptop-tablet hybrids, Android tablets and high-powered smartphones. Here’s the most interesting new gear announced at the IFA 2012 show in Berlin.
Learnist’s New iOS App: Teach Yourself About Anything
Want to learn something? There’s probably helpful stuff about it all over the web: videos, pages, digital books and more. If someone who already knew about the topic would put it all in one place, you’d be all set.
That’s the …
Yes, You Want a 4K TV (Or at Least I Do)
When I attended the CEATAC consumer-electronics conference in Tokyo last October, my favorite bleeding-edge technology was ultra-super-high-resolution TV — sets with displays that are 4,000 or even 8,000 pixels across in pixel …
Parallels Desktop 8: A New Version for Two New Operating Systems
Back in 2006, when Parallels Desktop first used virtualization technology to let you run Windows programs nearly seamlessly within OS X, I thought it might be a stopgap measure. Macs were getting more popular, and I assumed the …
The Digital Wallet Is Starting to Take Shape
Imagine if, in addition to all the things your smart phone does now, it could also act as your keys to the real world.
Instead of fumbling through a wallet for your credit cards, coupons, gift certificates, plane tickets, …
Smartype Keyboard Has a Screen — Go Ahead and Look at Your Hands
Do you ever look down at your keyboard while you’re typing? You kie! I mean, you lie! I had to look down at my hands to correct that. I’d say that Mavis Beacon must be rolling over in her grave, but I just found out that she’s a …
The Mainframe Computer: Can’t Kill It
John Markoff Steve Lohr of the New York Times has a good piece on an interesting product that you and I won’t be buying: IBM’s new mainframe computer, which Big Blue announced today. The story explains why these ginormous …