Technologizer

The War Against Netbooks Continues?

Monday, July 6, 2009

According to DigiTimes–a Taiwanese publication that’s always interesting, if not always completely reliable–Samsung is planning to release a netbook with an 11.6-inch screen and an Intel Atom CPU. Sounds cool–it’s a popular form factor with a roomier-than-usual display. But DigiTimes also says that Intel has responded by canceling Samsung’s deal for discount pricing on Atom [...]

5Words for May 11th, 2009

Monday, May 11, 2009

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Lotsa cool-techology news today… Steve Levy on Wolfram|Alpha. Next generation Windows-on-Mac. Real work with Windows 7. Samsung’s cool E-Ink phone keyboard. The trouble with 200-Mbps Internet. A netbook or a phone? Should Facebook censor holocaust deniers? Finally, pants with a keyboard!

Samsung Releases the First Yahoo Widget-Enabled TV

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

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[UPDATE: I credited Walt Mossberg with the column I mention below--wrong! The column's called The Mossberg Solution, but it's by Katherine Boehret. Corrected, and sorry about that.] Walt Mossberg Katherine Boehret of the Wall Street Journal has reviewed Samsung’s LED TV 7000, the first set that supports the Yahoo Widget Engine platform for Internet-enabled applications that [...]

5Words for March 23rd, 2009

Monday, March 23, 2009

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Happy Monday, everybody. Reading material: Wow, they still make mainframes? White House sides with RIAA. Hulu adds 10 million viewers. Intel chip flaw is theoretical. New 17-inch iMac: Old! The art of laptop stickers. Samsung unveils 11-hour netbook. IE 8: Losing users. Already! Dell cancels phone…buys Palm? The personal supercomputer is imminent. September: an Acer Android phone? Apple caters to business buyers.

5Words for March 5th, 2009

Thursday, March 5, 2009

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What I’m reading this morning: Twitter-like makeover for Facebook. Ballmer: Windows Mobile needs work. Amazon’s selling used video games. Pogue slams Samsung’s Memoir phone. Facebook spurns poor Ms. Batman. Fab Four meets Rock Band. Spy shots of new BlackBerry. Windows 7’s revamped UAC: useless? Vista SP2 available for download. Interesting, nitpicky Safari 4 review.

5Words for March 2nd, 2009

Monday, March 2, 2009

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March? In. Like a lion! Skittles stages goofball Twitter stunt. Apple desktop event rumors begin. Microsoft scuttlebutt: Live Search revamp. One-pound Touch Book netbook. iPhone becomes an ancient Mac. AT&T: bring back your handset? Foxmarks becomes Xmarks, adds features. Samsung talks up “hybrid” cameras. Demo 09 kicks off today. New cameras to fawn over. A fish swallowed my Nokia. iPhone firearm app: bad idea. Psion countersues Intel over [...]

5Words for February 25th, 2009

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

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What’s up, ladies and gents? Safari 4 is blazingly fast. Google explains yesterday’s Gmail outage. …and Gmail users get phished. Google joins European Microsoft tussle. Is your congressperson on Twitter? Intel says thin is in. AMD demos six-core CPU. A big Photoshop bug fix. Microsoft’s stock isn’t so hot. Google updates Internet 6 Toolbar. Roy Blount wants Kindle cash. Samsung writes a Memoir (phone) Nokia music phone hits [...]

Mobile World Congress: One Day, Sixteen New Phones

Monday, February 16, 2009

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Phones. More phones. Phones that look a lot like iPhones, except for the ones that don’t. Phones that may never show up in the good old US of A. Phones that are full of style, and ones that seem to be devoid of discernible personality. That, in short, was my Monday at Mobile World Congress [...]

Samsung Goes Green With Blue Earth

Monday, February 16, 2009

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I’m at the Samsung press conference at Mobile World Congress, where the company is launching a mess o’ new touchscreen phones. It’s also previewing one it says won’t ship until the third quarter of 2009: Blue Earth, a phone that’s part of the company’s ecological initative. It’s made of recycled bottles and which charges off [...]

Haptics the Next Big Cell Phone Thing? Immersion Says Yes.

Thursday, October 23, 2008

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Immersion is talking up the fact that its VibeTonz software — which allows the user to create personalized haptic effects — is shipped on one of the hottest new cellular phone in Korea right now, the Samsung Haptic 2. The device, which began shipping in late September, has already sold some 75,000 units in the [...]

Samsung Hedges its Bets with Netflix Streaming

Thursday, October 23, 2008

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As I have pointed out in the past, streaming is probably the single biggest threat to Blu-ray overall. Well, it looks as if Samsung — the company thats already given the format just five years to live — is acknowledging that and trying to stay one step ahead of the curve by adding streaming capabilities [...]

Samsung Does Notebooks

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

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If it weren’t for a certain other laptop-related announcement, the big news in laptops today would undoubtedly be this: Samsung is going to begin selling portable computers again in the U.S., re-entering one of the few personal electronics categories it doesn’t play in. (The company has been out of the market for a long time, [...]

IFA: The First 200-Hz LCD TVs Are Here! But From Who?

Friday, August 29, 2008

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I’ve been spending the day at IFA, the giant consumer electronics show in Berlin that’s Europe’s equivalent of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. I’m having a good time, but one conclusion I’ve drawn so far is that CES has the edge when it comes to major announcements about flashy new technologies and jaw-dropping [...]