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 …
Nexus 7 Niceties: 15 Best Apps for Google’s New 7-Inch Tablet
Google’s Nexus 7 is the best 7-inch tablet yet. Here are 15 must-have apps that look great on the Nexus 7’s display.
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Clamshell! The Story of the Greatest Computing Form Factor of All Time
How do you tell if a new technology product is a brilliant breakthrough?
Listening to its creators doesn’t work: Tech companies have an annoying tendency to promote everything as a brilliant breakthrough. And tech journalists …
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The Sad Fate of a Great Company
The New York Times‘ Loren Feldman has a great story on the lawsuit that Jim and Janet Baker, founders of voice-recognition pioneer Dragon Systems, are pursuing against Goldman Sachs, which advised them when they sold their company to Belgium-based Lernout & Hauspie:
And yet, even today what happened next to the Bakers seems remarkable.
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America’s Army: The Game, the Graphic Novel and Now the Tablet App
If you’d told me a couple of weeks ago that I’d be meeting with representatives of the U.S. Army here at Comic-Con, I’d probably have been really, really confused. But I did, and it all made sense: They were there promoting new …
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You’re on the iPad, Charlie Brown!
I write to you from the San Diego, where I’m attending the overwhelming, nutty and ultimately rewarding media mega frenzy known as Comic-Con International. On Saturday night, I’ll be moderating a panel on the future of graphic …
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How to Check If Your Yahoo Account Data Has Been Leaked
In light of the recent security breach that exposed around 450,000 Yahoo users’ e-mail addresses and passwords, security firm Sucuri has set up a tool you can use to check whether or not your account information has been …
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 …
Is Rovio’s Amazing Alex a Worthy Successor to Angry Birds?
Amazing Alex, Rovio’s touch-based mobile followup to Angry Birds (or in sequential-ese, Angry Birds Space) blindsided me. A new physics-angled game from the company that’s seen over a billion app downloads, with an estimated …
Digg Sold to Betaworks: WSJ Reports Buying Price of Just $500,000
Social news site Digg has been acquired by Betaworks. In a company blog post, Digg’s Matt Williams said, in part:
We couldn’t be happier to announce that the next generation of Digg will live on with the team from Betaworks.
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Tired of Losing Your iPhone at Bars? Maybe You Need a ‘Drunk Phone’
Today in trends that may or may not be actual trends: drunk phones! What, pray tell, is a drunk phone? According to Laura Krajecki, chief consumer officer at Starcom MediaVest Group, they are cheap phones that young people carry …