Apple’s newest OS X cat, Mountain Lion, is finally here, halo-dropped onto the Mac App Store at the last minute by a company that increasingly treats its products as if they were smartphones, teasing form and function but …
Opinion
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 …
Why Amazon Shouldn’t Be in the Hardware Business
Hopefully today’s column will spur some healthy debate.
I personally would love to know why Amazon should be in the hardware business. Initially I thought the idea made a lot of sense. What I expected with the Kindle Fire …
Why Google or Facebook Buying Your Favorite Startup Means It’s Probably Toast
When I learned this morning, via Twitter, that the small company behind Mac/iOS e-mail app Sparrow was being bought by Google, I almost didn’t need to read the startup’s announcement to know the upshot.
Google and Facebook buy …
Reddit Responds to Shootings in a Way Most Media Organizations Can’t
Friday morning, after news broke that a gunman burst into a midnight showing of the Dark Knight Rises and shot and killed at least 12 people, a Redditor named themurderator posted a link to a photo of what he claimed was his …
Nokia’s Lumia 900: What Went Wrong
AT&T has chopped the price of Nokia’s Lumia 900 in half, and is now selling the high-end Windows Phone for $50 with a two-year contract.
Although Nokia has downplayed the price drop, telling the New York Times that it’s “ …
Marissa Mayer: Yahoo!’s Utterly Surprising, Completely Logical Pick for CEO
There was a time, out here in Silicon Valley, when Marissa Mayer seemed to have as symbiotic a relationship with Google as its founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, and its CEO, Eric Schmidt, did.
As the company’s 20th hire, …
Can We Fix Computer Science Education in America?
The tech industry is one of the few bright spots in a dim economy. So why aren’t we teaching kids the skills they need to participate in it?
ARM vs. Intel: How the Processor Wars Will Benefit Consumers
Tim Bajarin is the president of 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 on …
The 3D Hype Bubble Is Now Completely Busted
The evidence that people are getting tired of 3D continues to pile up.
The latest bad news comes from Nintendo president Satoru Iwata, who in an interview with The Independent admitted that interest in 3D is “perhaps slightly …
Why Tablets Are Content Creation Devices: It’s All About Context
In the wake of my colleague Harry McCracken’s sensible commentary on Richard Gaywood’s TUAW piece about the iPad’s viability as a content creation tool, I wanted to write from the standpoint of someone with friends in both the …
I’m Sorry, All Computers Are Fundamentally Compromised Content-Creation Devices
Richard Gaywood is a blogger at TUAW, one of my favorite Apple sites. In a new post, he pokes at a controversy which I thought had pretty much died down: Is the iPad good for content creation as well as content consumption?
By …