Ever since Intel announced its Ultrabooks initiative last spring, I've been lusting after this new line of super-slim, fast-resuming, and long-lasting laptops. Now that the first Ultrabooks are finally shipping, though, the bloom is off the rose.
Even after Tim Cook took the reigns in August, there was no doubt that Apple remained Steve Jobs' company.Every iProduct and Mac that rolls off the assembly line reflects Jobs' vision of technology ...
Just call him Timmy Come Lately. At today's big "Let's Talk iPhone" event, Apple CEO Tim Cook took the wraps off the iPhone 4S, a next-generation smartphone with key improvements such as a dual-core p...
If you bought a craptastically cheap mobile device in the past year, I have just two words for you: I'm sorry. I'm sorry that you've had to carry a piece of unresponsive, slow-moving junk with you whe...
Valentine's Day came early this year for tech companies. Google married Motorola, Microsoft merged with Skype, and AT&T remains betrothed to T-Mobile, despite many objections..
Last year. That's when my father just finally gave up on pfs: Write, the same word-processing software he'd been using since 1986. If his old printer hadn't broken or if the DOS-based progra...
It's hard to imagine a less-consumer-friendly scenario than the merger of AT&T and T-Mobile. Fortunately, the U.S. Department of Justice has labeled this potential union as anti-competitive, so it...
In the same year that Microsoft added cut and paste to its mobile feature set, HP added cut and run, announcing last week that it would no longer produce webOS hardware, then dumping its failed HP Tou...
Steve Jobs may think we're living in the post-PC era, but when it comes to consumers' notebook preferences, we're not even in the post-desktop era. Mainstream shoppers continue to snap up clunky 15-in...
At the risk of stating the obvious, I'll say this right up front: The patent system in both Europe and the United States is the biggest threat to innovation in the world today. Rather than competing w...