Like the prize inside a Crackerjacks or kids’ cereal box, Siri, Apple’s voice-controlled digital assistant, is the raison d’être for buying an iPhone 4S, especially if you already own a 4.
A cult of personality has already arisen around Siri. Numero…
Today has been proclaimed Black Turtleneck Friday as an homage to Steve Jobs, timed to coincide with today’s launch of the iPhone 4S. I’ve washed my black turtleneck and am wearing it as I test the 4S.
Silly, perhaps, but it’s my way, our way, a way, …
Ali v. Frazier? Federer v. Nadal? Yanks v. Red Sox? None of these epic sporting confrontations can compete with the upcoming struggle between Apple and Amazon.
As you may know, Amazon announced its long-rumored, long-awaited, long-delayed Android Kind…
Sniff! Sniff! I smell failure. Tech failure! I smell — sniff, sniff — the picture fading at Kodak. BlackBerry fans ready to don black. Acer about to be broken. Motorola’s cellphone business filled with static. Digg digging its own grave. Ne…
Snoopy once sagely observed that “the anticipation far exceeded the actual event.”
From all indications, the beagle’s cynical view is likely to describe the reaction of the digital cognoscenti when the iPhone 5 appears about a month from now. Indicati…
So let me get this straight. Company A patents a technology. Company S uses this technology. Company A sues Company S for co-opting its patents, and the courts (so far) agree — and Company A is the bad guy?
Yes, I’m talking about what happened a…
While ordering my weekly supply of bagels and lox at my local kosher-style deli, Andrew, one of the managers with whom I am acquainted (we’re fellow Met fans, God help us) asked me an odd question. He’d heard about the new iPad 2 and wanted to know if…
Yes, Apple will unveil the iPad 2 next Wednesday. Whoopee.
My excitement, as you can tell by the lack of an exclamation point above, is surprisingly muted. Given the rampant speculation and build up, I kinda know what iPad 2 will be packing, and it d…
There have been some weird news reports this week about how Apple now wants a 30 percent cut of any goods sold from within an app, or that developers have to sell their goods through iTunes with Apple taking 30 percent, and that this greed would prompt…
Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly — rarely does one dip into the territory of the other. These remote-controlled fish do both: they swim to get airborne.
In the TV business, a hit TV show is said to “jump the shark” when it can no longer sustain the qualities that made it a hit in the first place, and so resorts to some sort of weird stunt in what is usually a failed effort to maintain fading ratings.
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No other two-year span in the history of consumer electronics has both wrought and promises as much radical change as last year and this new year. While there may have been years with one or two significant product introductions and advancements —…
Motorola’s long anticipated unveiling of the first Android 3.0 Honeycomb tablet, now dubbed the Xoom, along with the introduction of its first 4G dual core 1 GHz + 1 GHz processor phone, the Atrix 4G, might have been trumped by an unexpected and unique…
Casio has taken digital camera form factor to its inevitable “why didn’t we think of this” conclusion with the Tryx. It’s a digital camera that pops out of a frame, enabling it to swivel 360-degrees in both portrait and landscape mode and every way in …
In this post-Aron Ralston/127 Hours world, every extreme adventurer will want to carry both an iPhone or an iPod Touch and this Spot Connect, which connects you to the Globalstar satellite phone network. Y’know, unless you want your outdoor adventure t…
You’re fat. Well, not fat. Let’s say overweight. And you’re on a strict diet under a doctor’s supervision.
Or, you have allergies, and you have to be careful about your environment and what you eat.
Or, you have diabetes, and you have to be careful …
We await two potentially seminal technology events this week — Verizon’s official debut of LTE on Dec. 5 and the release of Avatar on 3D Blu-ray (so far available only with the past or present purchase of a Panasonic 3D HDTV). Each should presage…
Ooh, isn’t T-Mobile clever? The company’s new MyTouch 4G “piggyback” commercial mocks and borrows the stark white gestalt of Apple’s now defunct Justin Long/John Hodgeman “I’m a Mac” commercials. It uses a pretty young thing representing the MyTouch 4G…
Did’ja ever wonder how Jon Stewart manages to find just the right old clip to catch a politician in an inconsistency or lie? The Daily Show uses an expensive technology from SnapStream to search recorded video for actual words spoken. AT&T plans on bri…
It’s impossible not to look at the ur-tablet Nook Color (aka NOOKcolor) and think of iPad and other tablets. Aside from its color e-book reading capabilities, Nook Color does a lot of tablet-like stuff like run Android 2.1, surf the Web and play videos…
Sony and Google TV have finally fulfilled a 30-year-old search for a successful convergence of the TV and the PC. And while the Sony Internet TV powered by Google (the official mouthful of a name) runs on Android, the OS looks and acts nothing like And…
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