White MacBook, It Was Good Living With You
It’s official: The white MacBook is now really, truly dead. Apple is said to have notified resellers that its white plastic 13-inch laptop will no longer be available to educational institutions....
View ArticleOn Valentine's Day, Ol' Fashioned Phone Calls Beat Video Chat for...
Turns out Stevie Wonder knew what was up when he just called to say he loved you: Out of all the means of digital communications available to us, the overwhelming majority of users plan to use a...
View ArticleSold Out! The $35 Raspberry Pi Mini-Computer.
The $35 Raspberry Pi, a credit-card-sized Linux-based computer originally created for educational purposes, has already sold out after it became available earlier today, following five years of...
View ArticleForget the Ultrabook -- Go With the New Commodore!
Why buy a modern computer with a standard operating system, keyboard and display, when you can buy a Commodore Amiga? Commodore USA, the Florida-based start-up company that has been producing replicas...
View ArticleThe Hottest Trend in E-Commerce? Clothes.
Apparel is the fastest-growing segment in e-commerce this year, thanks to new ways to display clothing online. EMarketer predicts that the apparel and accessories category is expected to grow by 20...
View ArticleSearching for a Mighty Mouse? Here Are Three Options.
Even in an increasingly trackpad-and-touchscreen-driven computing world, I’m pro-mouse. There’s something to be said about the precision that comes with a computer mouse, and about the comfort of using...
View ArticlePermission to Procrastinate: Wait to Get a New Laptop
If you’re thinking of buying a new laptop this spring, my advice is to think again. Unless your laptop is on its last legs and you have to move quickly, there are compelling reasons to wait until at...
View ArticleMobile App Bump Can Now Push Photos to Your Desktop
Bump Technologies launched a new Web site feature on Thursday morning, allowing Bump’s mobile app users the ability to share smartphone photos to their computers by physically bumping the phone against...
View ArticleA Laptop Screen That Promises an Eyeful
Are you intensely disappointed by the resolution of your laptop screen? Didn’t think so. Yet, Apple thinks it could be better. This has long been a theme for the famed technology company: Find a...
View ArticleHappy 100th Birthday, Alan Turing. Love, Silicon Valley.
Although the circumstances of his death — considered a suicide, due to persecution over his being gay, although that conclusion has recently been disputed — were tragic, there is no question that...
View ArticleBack to School With Two Thin Laptops -- One Pricey, One Not
While many potential laptop buyers are waiting for the Oct. 26 release of Windows 8 and the new hardware designed to use it, not everyone can afford to tarry. Students going back to school, or folks...
View ArticleIf Your Computer Cared About You (Comic)
Here is the latest comic from our Joy of Tech friends at Geek Culture, Nitrozac and Snaggy. Joy of Tech appears three times a week in the Voices section of this site.
View ArticleYoga PC Flips and Bends, but as a Tablet, It's Clumsy
Windows 8 presents a dilemma for PC makers. It contains two very different user interfaces: a touch-oriented, tablet-like one with clusters of tiles, full-screen apps and an on-screen keyboard; plus...
View ArticleDigital Interrogation
They knew everything about me … My computer was arrested before me. – Taymour Karim, a Syrian anti-government activist and one of many hacking targets since the country’s rebellion began in 2011
View ArticleMaking Sense of All the New Laptop Flavors
Just when you thought it was safe to shop for a new laptop, a fresh problem stands in the way of laptop buyers: Confusion. The shelves are now filled with shiny new PCs and Macs running revamped...
View ArticleComputing Pioneer Ada Lovelace Gets Deserved Google Doodle
Google does commemorative logos — called Google Doodles — pretty regularly now. But today, it’s a much-deserved tip-of-the-pen to celebrate the 197th birthday of Ada Lovelace, a woman who is one of...
View ArticleWeighing In on Wi-Fi Scales
Over the past week, I’ve been posting my weight all over my social networks. It’s not a sick joke, and I haven’t been hacked, as some concerned friends suggested after seeing updates like “My weight:...
View ArticleA PC and Tablet "Brick" for the Price of One
[ See post to watch video ] Just because two things work well on their own doesn’t mean they’ll be great together. Think spaghetti and ice cream, or Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez. In the tech world,...
View ArticleDell Laptop Does Flips to Try to Be a Thick Tablet
[ See post to watch video ] Welcome to another in our series of reviews on efforts by Windows PC makers to make laptops that are also tablets, with very little success. This time, the attempt comes...
View ArticleCan These iPad Apps Teach Your Kid to Code?
The pillars of elementary education in the U.S. — reading, writing, math — have remained the same for a long time. Now another skill set is increasingly coming into focus: Computer programming. This...
View ArticleShut Down or Sleep?
Q: Every night I shut down my desktop computer. I’ve been told I should just put it to sleep since shutting it down wears it down faster. I do it to save energy and I thought preserve its life longer....
View ArticleAntiques for Geeks: Christie's Auctions Vintage Apple Computers
As legend has it, the first Apple computers were made in 1976 in the garage belonging to Steve Jobs’s parents. Of that run of roughly 200 Apple 1s, only a few working models remain. One is currently up...
View ArticleWhat's the Best Laptop for a College-Bound Student?
Q: What laptop do you recommend for my granddaughter who is heading off to college? I am not looking for any low cost bargains, but a solidly performing device with a good operating system that will...
View ArticleBras in a Box and Netflix-Like Clothing Swaps? New Services Look to Disrupt...
Free at-home try-ons. Subscription socks in a box. Monthly doggie treats. Robot-chosen bras. If “regular” online retailers were starting to disrupt brick-and-mortar stores 10 years ago, niche...
View ArticleLook Who's Taking Dell's Spot on the S&P 500
Now that computing giant Dell is days away from closing the $25 billion deal that will lead to its becoming a privately held company, there’s some change coming to the various stock indices of which it...
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