Tuesday, November 17, 2009
AT&T’s Verizon Ad Battle: Who’s Being Hurt Worse?
First, let’s set the scene: In one corner, you have Verizon.
Friday, October 16, 2009
Could Apple’s Rumored Tablet Save Newspapers?
If the iPhone is the “Jesus phone,” it now appears as if the still-sheathed Apple tablet may become the “Jesus reader.”
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
World of Warcraft Awaits China’s Approval to Relaunch
The relaunch of the popular online game World of Warcraft in China, where it has already been offline for six weeks, still faces an indefinite delay as it awaits government approval for its content.
Thursday, June 4, 2009
Apple Has Squandered the Gift That Was Vista
While it’s true that Apple has significantly grown its share of the desktop operating system market since the release of Windows Vista in November of 2006, the company’s market share remains below 10 percent, and it actually dropped in the first quarter of 2009, according to Gartner’s Worldwide PC Shipment report.
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Ten Ways Microsoft’s Retail Stores Will Differ From Apple Stores
Microsoft announced plans to open retail stores, hoping to boost visibility of many of its products and its brand (Apple mimicry, perhaps?). The news is just too tempting not to have some fun with. So here are some yet-to-be-officially-revealed details about the Microsoft stores.
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Burn Rate: MediaMaster Goes Under
MediaMaster, a free Web-based application that allowed users to upload music from their hard drives and listen to it online or on their mobile devices, made the decision to shutter its doors, and explained on its Web site that “it is not possible to keep a service like this up for free without some sort of large scale userbase to get ads to pay for it.”
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
The Frustratingly Unfulfilled Promise of Google Gears
Back on May 30 of last year, Google released Google Gears, a browser plug-in designed to help Web-based applications work even when they couldn’t connect to the Internet. I was pretty jazzed up about it, and so were my PC World colleagues: We eventually named Gears as the most innovative product of 2007. I still think that Gears is a fabulous idea. But I’m beginning to worry about its viability.
Thursday, March 6, 2008
Internet Explorer 8 and the Boring Era of Web Browsers
Microsoft unveiled the first beta version of Internet Explorer 8 today, and we’ve been playing with it at PC World. … In this early version, IE 8 is not an upgrade that’s going to bowl you over with amazing new functionality. Microsoft is touting its better compliance with Web standards. (Shouldn’t the world’s dominant browser already be super-compatible with the Web?) It says that IE now recovers from crashes more gracefully. (Wouldn’t it be nicer if it didn’t crash?) A feature called Activities lets developers add functionality to IE in a way that doesn’t seem radically different from things clever sites have done for years with plain ol’ bookmark buttons; Web Slices, which let sites create widgety little snippets of information that you can view by clicking a bookmark button, are kind of interesting–but they’ll only take off if they’re widely supported by major sites, and they’re not radically different from Apple’s Web Clip feature in Safari, which works with all Web pages, not just ones designed to support it.
Friday, February 1, 2008
The Next 25 Years in Tech
The future ain’t what it used to be. In the pre-PC era, futurists predicted huge changes in transportation. By 2008 we would be flitting about in personal jetpacks and taking vacations on the moon. But the communications revolution spurred by personal computers and the Internet wasn’t on anyone’s radar.
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