Technologizer: Hey, They’re All Just PCs
For one of the most successful, profitable, all-around-important inventions of all time, the PC has never gotten much respect.
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Best of the Best of 2010 Lists
Another year is coming to a close, which inevitably means – everyone is sharing their Best of 2010 lists
Here is a compilation of our favorites:
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Technologizer: The State of iPad Satisfaction
By Harry McCracken
Six thousand owners of Apple’s tablet tell us what they think–and the news is good.
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Technologizer: The IBM Muppet Show
By Andrew Leal for Technologizer
Before Sesame Street and The Muppet Show, Jim Henson made short films for Big Blue. The tech may be archaic, but the entertainment is timeless.
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Bits from Bill Pytlovany: Can Facebook Be Trusted?
By Bill Pytlovany
Plenty of people are doing articles about the new Facebook settings but I’m really asking the fundamental question. Can you trust Facebook? Based on my observations the answer is ….
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Technologizer: How to Control Your Facebook Privacy
By Harry McCracken
If you think the whole Web is suddenly looking more like Facebook, you’re not imagining things. At its developer conference last week, the 800-pound gorilla of social networks made a bevy of announcements — and all the biggies involved intermingling your life as a Facebook user with other activities around the Internet.
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Technologizer: The iPad vs. Everything Else
By Harry McCracken
Can Apple’s much-hyped tablet replace your notebook, e-reader, smartphone, audio player, magazines, or gaming device?
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Technologizer: The Secret Origin of Windows
By Tandy Trower for Technologizer
Few people understand Microsoft better than Tandy Trower, who worked at the company from 1981-2009. Trower was the product manager who ultimately shipped Windows 1.0, an endeavor that some advised him was a path toward a ruined career…Trower recounts the inside story of his experience in transforming Windows from vaporware into a product that has left an unmistakable imprint on the world, 25 years after it was first released.
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Microsoft & HP Get Jump on Apple Tablet
Reports from CES 2010 in Las Vegas suggest Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer will announce a new tablet/slate style PC developed in conjunction with HP – in his keynote speech tonight.
As you may recall, Harry McCracken discussed this rumored project in his Technologizer post – last September.
Watch the keynote here
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Technologizer: This Dumb Decade -The 87 Lamest Moments in Tech, 2000-2009
By Harry McCracken
If ever a decade began dumb, it was this one.* When clocks struck midnight on January 1st and the dreaded Y2K bug turned out to be nothing but a mild irritant, it proved once again that the experts often don’t know what the heck they’re talking about.
Which was a relief–and a fitting way to kick off the technological era we’ve lived in ever since. Yes, it’s been an amazing time. But it’s also seen more than its share of misbegotten decisions, bizarre dramas, pointless hype, and lackluster products and technologies–often involving the same people and companies responsible for all the amazing stuff.
So–with a respectful tip of the Technologizer hat to Business 2.0 and Fortune’s 101 Dumbest Moments in Business and, of course, to Esquire’s Dubious Achievement Awards–let’s recap, shall we?
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