AT&T Brings Yahoo! Search to Every Handset (Except the iPhone)
Published on September 8, 2008 to Cell PhonesYahoo! and AT&T today announced the move to make Yahoo! the default search engine on AT&T cell phones. Read more
Internet Math: Google Gets $1.10 Of Every New Ad Dollar
Published on July 21, 2008 to Business & LawEven as Google's business growth softens, the company continues to eat everyone else's lunch. Read more
Niue Becomes First Country to Give One Laptop to Every Child
Published on August 25, 2008 to Notebooks and LaptopsNiue has become the first nation to dish out one of the OLPC’s XO laptops to every school child in the country. Read more
One Ministry Of Defense Laptop Stolen Every Two Days
Published on July 22, 2008 to SecurityLondon (England) - The UK's Ministry of Defense is having its laptops stolen and lost at an alarming rate. Read more
HTC Touch Diamond Shipments To Reach The One Million Mark This Month
Published on August 5, 2008 to Business & LawUnit sales of HTC Touch Diamond handsets are expected to reach the one-million mark by mid-August, less than three months after High Tech Computer (HTC) began to ship the handsets at the end of... Read more
Who Designed This Crap? The Case of the 11 Pound Pencil
Published on March 5, 2006 to Notebooks and LaptopsWhen novices try to design a computer system the result is almost always both sad and laughable. Join us as we look at one of the most Loony Tunes IT implementations ever. See how a committee of the uninitiated turned a bunch of pencil and paper tasks into a cyber-nightmare of truly grand proportions. Read more
Who Designed This Ipod Crap? The Cartoon That Says It All
Published on June 9, 2006 to Home TheaterCartoonist Jen Sorensen has captured the absurd essence of Ipod mania. Barry Gerber responds to Aaron McKenna's "scathing" attack on his Ipod column by waving her cartoon for all to see. Read more
Who Designed This Crap? The Great Ipod Scam
Published on April 3, 2006 to Home TheaterMany can no longer live without Apple's Ipods and Itunes? Some need a daily Itunes fix. Others lust after the money to be made by getting on the "I" bandwagon. Not Barry Gerber. He's fed up with Ipods and Itunes and argues the world might be a better place if they never saw the light of day. Revised 04/05/06. Read more
Is This the Windows Mobile iPhone?
Published on August 15, 2007 to SmartphonesCan adding touch features to Windows Mobile mean there's competition for the iPhone? Read more
Who Designed This Crap? UPDATE On The 11 Pound Pencil
Published on May 4, 2006 to Notebooks and LaptopsBarry Gerber revisits the social services agency with the IT system from hell. This time he reports that the amateur's who designed the system continue to dig themselves deeper and deeper into an embarrassing and costly hole. Read more
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The Spotlight: By The Numbers
Microsoft fined $1.35 billion, HD-DVD players drop to $49.99, and an alarm clock with a math equation snooze bar. Plus the comment of the week. Read more
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The Spotlight: Vista Dancing In The Dark
Microsoft acquires Sidekick maker Danger, Psystar stirs controversy by offering a Mac clone, the super hi-def 5k Red video camera unvelied and the internal Vista sales video so cheesy it must be seen to be believed. Read more
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The Spotlight: Vista Shines In The Mojave
Scrabulous goes d-o-w-n, Dell sells a Hybrid, a working jetpack and Virgin does Space. Plus Microsoft battles bias toward Vista in 'Mojave Experiment'. Read more
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The Hiphone vs The iPhone
We compared this $200 feature-packed clone with the original iPhone. But how did it perform? Read more
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The Flock Web Browser
Ben Meyer takes a look at the recently released 1.0 beta of Flock, a social-networking web browser based on Firefox code. Read more
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