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Many, many tech companies hold conferences here in San Francisco. But Evernote’s Trunk conference, which I’m attending today, is unique: The 700 people here include not only developers and journalists (the typical conference …
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When you’re a journalist, the experts want to talk to you — about every possible topic, and mostly in hope that you’ll quote them in articles. So I wasn’t surprised when I got two pitches concerning folks — both identified as …
More than a few times, I reached into my bag thinking I was pulling out my iPad but instead pulled out the $1,400 Acer Aspire S5 Ultrabook. It’s that thin.
Indeed, at a hair shy of 0.6″ thick, Acer is laying claim to “the …
Finally. That’s what those of you with tricked-out PC rigs — who perhaps don’t have game consoles and have had to listen to console gamers brag about just how phenomenal this game is — may be saying this morning, now that Dark …
At the end of this year, the lights will turn off at Nintendo Power. Future US, which has produced the long-running magazine for the last five years, is pulling out, and Nintendo says it won’t seek a new publisher according to …
If the original 3DS seemed a little puny for a games handheld touting “glasses-free 3D,” Nintendo’s new, almost paperback-sized $200 3DS XL expands your range of options to two: pint-sized or big gulp.
If you already own a …
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My colleague Matt Peckham already wrote about Microsoft’s new logo, which the company unveiled today. Its defining attribute is that it’s extremely consistent with the “Modern UI” (formerly known as Metro) which is rolling out …
Even before the Curiosity Mars rover fully gets to work, NASA is planning its newest mission to the Red Planet.
We’ve all felt like throwing our phones one point — because of badly designed interfaces, lousy reception, shatter-prone screens or the rage-inducingly awful person we were just talking to. But what if you could hurl your …
Microsoft just rolled out the most significant change to its iconic corporate logo since 1987, trading curves for straight lines and black-and-white for vivid colors.
It’s not just the four-color Windows icon that’s morphed, …
Going viral in the past week are two celebrity tech ads — James Franco promoting the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 and Penélope Cruz promoting the Nintendo 3DS. That’s a good enough excuse to re-watch celebrity-endorsed tech …
You’ve probably heard someone, somewhere, claim smartphones are encroaching on handheld gaming’s turf. It’s what you’re seeing anywhere you go, after all: in planes, trains and automobiles, or maybe at family get-togethers, …