The iPad is a great tablet, but you know what’s even better? Competition. Unfortunately, there wasn’t much of that in 2011, as Apple’s rivals rushed out clunky, expensive tablets based on Android Honeycomb, which itself was buggy …
How to Prevent a New Year’s Eve Tech Hangover
From embarrassing photos to lost phones to inebriated texting, learn how to prevent tech-related regrets in the first hours of 2012.
5 Big Hopes for Samsung’s Galaxy S III
As an owner of Samsung’s Galaxy S II, I’ve taken an interest in a series of rumors about Samsung’s next flagship phone, the Galaxy S III. There’s not much to chew on at the moment, aside from the requisite spec boosts and a …
Apple Spoofs ‘Ghostbusters’ in Cheesy Internal Ad from 1984
If Bill Murray doesn’t want to make another Ghostbusters movie, maybe Hollywood can get Steve Wozniak to play Peter Venkman. The Apple co-founder can be seen in this video labeled “Blue Busters,” a reference to Apple’s then rival IBM.
Displayed at the company’s 1984 International Sales Meeting, it shows Apple employees in full …
Celebrity, Disaster and No iPhone 5: 2011 As Seen Through Internet Searches
If the Internet’s top news searches are anything to go by, 2011 was all about glamor, gloss and more than a little frivolity, with Kate Middleton, Charlie Sheen, Kim Kardashian and American Idol dominating people’s attention over …
Rumor: Two New iPads in January, iPad 2 Price Drop Expected [Updated]
Apple’s next iPad — make that iPads, as in two — could see light of day at last in January, according to a highly detailed new rumor, but word that Apple was planning a smaller 7-inch iPad is in doubt after the source backed …
GoDaddy Boycott over SOPA Support Still On, Exodus Looms
Too little, too late — that’s the message some customers plan to send Internet domain registrar GoDaddy today, after the company gave its support to the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), then withdrew it, but only …
300,000,000
What Will 2012 Mean for Social Media?
On the one hand, it’s easy to predict where social media’s going over the next 12 months: more of the same, with the sublime, ridiculous and mundane occurring in equal amounts, both reaffirming and quashing our faith in humanity …
Looking Forward to 2012: Apple TV, iPhone 5 and Goodnight PCs
Onward, tablets, smartphones and post-PC (yet still just as much “personal computing”) devices — call them whatever you like, 2012 will see a glut of me-too mobiles designed to untether us from stodgy office desktops and …
TechnologizerTechnologizer
Toshiba’s Thrive 7: Still Searching for the Perfect 7-inch Tablet
The laptop kingpin’s second tablet has a nifty screen and a convenient size, but the overall package falls far short of iPad-level excellence.
Airline Passengers Not So Keen on Wi-Fi in the Sky
Wi-Fi on long flights seems like a no-brainer, but travelers are apparently sticking to other tried-and-true boredom killers in the air — like celebrity magazines and booze. According to SplatF, of the 355 million people who …