Creating 'Moments' of Your Life
It’s hard to maintain a monogamous relationship with one photo-sharing Web site. You will sign up with a service and use it as your primary online repository for a while. You may even familiarize...
View ArticleSecond Chances: T-Mobile Tries Again
As the saying goes, you never get a second chance to make a first impression. But it never hurts to try. This week, I tested the T-Mobile myTouch 3G with Google (GOOG), which is the company’s second...
View ArticleNew Netbook Offers Long Battery Life and Room to Type
The brightest spot for Windows PC makers in this awful economy has been the relatively new category of small, light, minimalist and cheap laptops called netbooks. But there are some significant...
View ArticleThe Motorola CLIQ: WINR or LOZR?
Motorola has finally announced its bet-the-company Android handset. At GigaOM’s Mobilize 09 event in San Francisco this morning, Sanjay Jha, Motorola’s co-CEO and CEO of the company’s handset division,...
View ArticleA Windows to Help You Forget
In just two weeks, on Oct. 22, Microsoft’s long operating-system nightmare will be over. The company will release Windows 7, a faster and much better operating system than the little-loved Windows...
View ArticleMotorola's DEVOUR: WINR or LOZR?
Verizon this morning copped to what the blogosphere has been jawing about for weeks now: Motorola’s Devour is to be the wireless carrier’s next Android handset. Arriving at market next month, the...
View ArticleGoogle Buzz Makes Gmail Less Socially Awkward
Can a microblogging twist on Gmail raise Google’s profile in social networking? We’ll soon find out. At an event at company headquarters today, Google announced Google Buzz, a new Twitteresque status...
View ArticleGoogle Buzz Isn't Exactly Humming Along
These days, it’s near impossible to use a computer without running into a social network. Web sites encourage people to “tweet” links to their articles via Twitter; photo-sharing sites nudge users to...
View ArticleIn Mobile Gymnastics, the Motorola Backflip Scores a 6
Touch screens are now prevalent enough on mobile devices that I find myself touching the screens of every new gadget I see. My trusty index finger of a stylus is ready at all times to swipe, pinch,...
View ArticleHP ePrint Printers, for Those Who Prefer Their Spam in Hard Copy
Hewlett-Packard makes a fair bit of money selling printers, but it makes even more selling print cartridges, where its margins are 20-plus percent. So it’s in the company’s best interests to do all...
View ArticleNew Chinese Internet Document Redlines BS Meter
Though it has given no indication otherwise, China would like the world to know that it has no plans to allow free access to online content–Google’s “new approach” to the country be damned. In a...
View ArticleStaying Connected While Traveling
Q: We’re a retired couple who travel in and out of the U.S.A. and need to keep in touch with our e-mails and Schwab account on line. Please recommend a netbook or laptop for this that we can use all...
View ArticleGoogle Owns Up to Owning Slide
Confirming leaks from earlier this week, Google today officially announced it has acquired Slide, maker of social gadgets and games. “Slide has already created compelling social experiences for tens of...
View ArticleTackling 54,000 Photos With Two Programs
Taking photos is fun. Sorting and editing them is not. I’ve got 54,220 photos on my computer, including a few would-be National Geographic covers but far more out-of-focus portraits and poorly exposed...
View ArticleThe Social Web's Big New Theme for 2011: Multiple Identities for Everyone!
Mark Zuckerberg famously said: “Having two identities for yourself is an example of a lack of integrity.” Although he later clarified, “I wasn’t making a value judgment,” maintaining multiple...
View ArticleDo We Need a Better Way to View Facebook Photos?
The average Facebook user has access to more than 100,000 photos taken of or shared by their friends, according to a sample taken by startup Pixable. But the only way to view them is by scrolling...
View ArticleInternet Access in Hotel Rooms
Q: I have a 3GS iPhone. Is there a way to connect it to the Internet cable found in hotel and motel rooms? A: Not that I know of. But you can do this indirectly by creating your own Wi-Fi network from...
View ArticleMining Facebook to Make a Real Photo Album
As kids, we’re taught to share and share alike, and nowhere is this more clear than on Facebook, where some 600 million users share private details about their lives—and a lot of that sharing involves...
View ArticleWhat To Do After MobileMe Goes Away?
Q: When Apple’s MobileMe service goes away in June 2012, what happens to the stuff I have stored on iDisk? Will Apple still store my material someplace else remotely on one of its servers that I can...
View ArticleExclusive: Backupify Closes $5 Million in Round Led by Avalon Ventures
Backupify, a cloud-based service that backs up the content of several social networks — including Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn — and also the contents of Google Apps accounts, has landed a $5 million...
View ArticleLarry Page Seems to Be Running Low on Products to Kill
Google CEO Larry Page has made an active practice of cutting deprioritized, ignored and non-key products. In the past year that’s included Gears, Knol, Wave, Buzz, Code Search, Aardvark, Google Labs...
View ArticleMove Over, Picasa
Q: I have a new iPad and am trying to learn how to use it. Is it possible to move any of my Picasa photos and/or my music over to this thing? A: Assuming your music is on your PC or Mac, it’s easy to...
View ArticleA Hangout for All Your Social-Network Photos
Nowadays, people are storing a lot of personal photos on a variety of social networks. They capture photos with their smartphone cameras, instantly share them with Facebook, Twitter or Instagram and...
View ArticleGoogle Killing Off a Few More Products in Some Late Fall Spring Cleaning
Google said on Friday it has a little more spring cleaning to do, announcing it would kill off several more products beyond those put on the chopping block in July. The latest crop of products slated...
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