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I know this sounds a bit heretical, but my tech wish for 2011 is for things to slow down a bit. I realize that the pace of innovation is getting forever faster but there are […]

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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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 […]