Year: 2010

My first order of business looking back on 2010 is to admit that I was wrong about the iPad. In January, shortly after Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced the device, I wrote that I was “underwhelmed” […]

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Track Santa via NORAD Video of Santa’s 2009 Journey

Despite what some politicians and pundits are saying, the FCC’s vote on net neutrality is neither a government takeover of the Internet nor a complete sell-out to the telecommunications industry. Like President Obama who appointed […]

Facebook will employ face recognition software to make tagging easier (Credit: Facebook) Just a few hours after Time magazine anointed Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg “Person of the Year,” Zuckerberg’s company announced yet another new service that will […]

I agree with Time’s selection of Mark Zuckerberg as person of the year. With a membership approaching 600 million, there is no denying that Zuckerberg has — by some measures — direct influence on more lives than […]

Google’s Cr-48 Chrome Notebook is for testing purposes only (Photo credit: Google) In my long career as a technology journalist, I’ve reviewed many computers and, typically, when I review a new machine, I give myself […]

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, along with chief engineer Andrew Bosworth, last week announced a new Facebook messaging service that some predicted would be a “Gmail killer.” But Zuckerberg made it clear that the service is […]

I live in an area of Palo Alto with really bad AT&T cellular service, which is a problem because my daughter’s iPhone gets spotty coverage and because I sometimes review cell phones and other devices that […]

Like most people, I never leave the house without my keys, my wallet and, of course, my cell phone. But soon it may be possible to leave the keys and wallet behind. The cell phone […]