Tim Bajarin is the president of Creative Strategies Inc., a technology industry analysis and market intelligence firm in Silicon Valley.
Reviews & Features
Add Old Photos Directly to Facebook Timeline with Shoebox for iPhone
Now that Facebook Timeline is being forced upon all users, you might as well embrace the new profile format and deck your Timeline out (or quit Facebook in a fit of rage, which is easier said than done). If you’re looking to add …
Two Minute Video: Getting Started with Facebook Timeline
We’re all getting Facebook’s new Timeline profile and we’re all going to have to do some work to get it set up. You can either do like I do and crumple your anger into a little tiny ball and stuff it waaaaay down into the pit of …
#fail: Hashtag Revolts Show Marketing Doesn’t Work on Social Media
I admit that it’s rare for me to say, “You have to feel sorry for McDonald’s” and actually mean it, but after watching the failure of their recent attempt to turn Twitter to their marketing advantage, you actually do have to feel …
German Scientists Teach Advanced Robots to Play Baseball
Now that Jorge Posada has retired, the Yankees might want to contact Berthold Bäuml from the German Aerospace Center (DLR).
No, he can’t hit a fastball, but the robotics professor has created something that might interest …
Rumor Round-Up: The Future Smartphones of 2012
CES 2012 was a quiet show for smartphones, with phone makers cooling their jets after the holiday shopping season. Now that the show’s over, rumors of new smartphones are starting to trickle in, many of which will debut at Mobile …
What ‘Ownership’ Means for Digital Media (Hint: Not Much)
Here’s a question: When you buy digital media, what are you actually getting for your money?
Actual ownership over a copy of the media — a la analog media purchases — or just permission to watch/read/listen to something …
5 Reasons Final Fantasy XIII Worked
Final Fantasy XIII was “too linear.” That, amidst effusive praise for its gameplay, was the main charge critics leveled at the game. Linear. Sequential. Undeviating. Straight as an arrow. Not “two roads diverged in a yellow …
Why We Won’t See Many Protests like the SOPA Blackout
The SOPA blackout protest last week was an unprecedented event. Its massive success — with dozens of members of Congress switching their stance in one day under the withering intensity of thousands of phone calls — surprised …
No Turning Back: Tablets and the Era of Touch Computing
Ben Bajarin is the director of consumer-technology analysis and research at Creative Strategies Inc., a technology industry analysis and market intelligence firm in Silicon Valley.
Apple’s iBooks Textbooks: 4 Reasons to Be Skeptical
I should know better than to look at a new Apple creation and call it an outright failure. The company’s batting average is too high lately. There’s not a lot of room for nay-saying.
Still, I think a dose of skepticism doesn’t …
Police Developing Tech to Virtually Frisk People from 82 Feet Away
The NYPD and DOD are developing a way to scan people for guns from a safe distance. Can the new system survive the many privacy concerns it’s bound to bring up?