Last week, Slate’s technology columnist Farhad Manjoo posted an interesting article about Google’s Android phone operating system vs. the iPhone. While the Google phone (and the brand new Nexus One) have been met with mixed reviews and a lukewarm response from the stock market (as well as a lawsuit from the estate of science fiction [...]
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 By Alex Goldmanon December 21st, 2009 Google has become so synonymous with the internet that “Googling” has become a catch-all term for doing internet searches. In a little over a decade, Google has gone from being the brain child of two Stanford graduates to being the deliverers of internet data, shaping the way we interact with information online through sophisticated searching [...] By Alex Goldmanon December 17th, 2009 The iPhone, which can currently only be used with AT&T’s wireless data plan, has been a monolithic success. Racking up sales of over 4 million units per quarter, it’s the first handheld that’s taken a real bite out of Blackberry’s previously dominant market share. And as a device it’s not hard to love. It’s intuitive, [...]  By Tony Simoeson September 28th, 2009 DING! You’ve Got Mail! You just received an email from your bank informing you of some change to the privacy policy and a link to sign in and confirm the changes. You click on the provided link and fill in the username and password to log in. The moment you click submit, your very private [...]  By Daniel Lugoon August 10th, 2009 Just over a year ago, Apple announced that Snow Leopard (OS X version 10.6) will ship in September, 2009. This update, while not a full operating system overhaul, promises a big improvement on performance, efficiency, and the reduction of the Leopard’s overall memory footprint, but there will be very few cosmetic changes to the OS; [...] |
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