Faster Forward Archive: The business we have chosen
Wanted: Guidance for a gadget guide
At the end of November, I traditionally devote a few dozen column inches to shopping suggestions for a wide variety of gadgets. Last year, for instance, I used my column to outline my advice on computers, flat-panel TVs and smartphones, then covered digital cameras, MP3 players and other devices in...
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November 4, 2009; 10:42 AM ET |
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A second look at Apple's Snow Leopard
It's now been almost two months since I reviewed Apple's Snow Leopard version of Mac OS X -- enough time for Apple to have shipped its first major patch to that operating system, and enough time for any new-release shininess to have dulled. Granted, Snow Leopard (aka, Mac OS X...
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November 2, 2009; 11:59 AM ET |
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E-reader news: Post readies Kindle deal, Barnes & Noble debuts an Nook tablet
The newspaper-plus-Kindle deals that Amazon heralded when it unveiled its Kindle DX electronic book reader in May--and then failed to deliver on schedule--are finally about to arrive. Later this week, the plan is for Amazon to start e-mailing select customers outside the Washington area, inviting them to buy a discounted...
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October 20, 2009; 6:05 PM ET |
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One Last Look at My Windows Vista Review
Those of us who write about computing for a living can be so busy trying out the next would-be-big thing that we often forget to follow up on our past predictions. So I was happy to see Technologizer tech writer Harry McCracken spent some time re-reading some of the first...
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October 14, 2009; 12:32 PM ET |
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Why Reporters Should Twitter (A Little Shop Talk)
(Note: The following entry is a lot of inside baseball, some of which might count as "inside baseball, played at night with the lights out." If discussions of journalistic ethics bore you, please skip back to Friday's entry about MMS on the iPhone or commiserate with Dan Steinberg about the...
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September 28, 2009; 1:09 PM ET |
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Comedy Is an Uninvited Guest at Microsoft's 'House Party'
Microsoft has produced its share of quirky marketing messages, but a YouTube clip produced to promote a series of Windows 7 launch parties is a special sort of odd. Oh, so very special. The idea, as veteran Microsoft reporter Todd Bishop reported earlier this month, is that Windows 7 fans...
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September 24, 2009; 11:27 AM ET |
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