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2020: Still the Year of the iPad

John Paczkowski in Mobile on August 8, 2011 at 3:30 am PT

Competing against Apple’s iPad has been a fruitless endeavor for most who have tried, and sadly for the company’s rivals, that’s not going to change any time soon.

Survey: 2020 Vision of Computing Mostly Cloudy

John Paczkowski in Social on June 11, 2010 at 2:30 pm PT

By 2020 the transition from desktop to cloud will be largely complete and we’ll all view the former as we view the latter today–an adjunct to our primary workspace. That’s the conclusion of a new study by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project that found a majority of tech-savvy folks believe they won’t be doing nearly so much work on the desktop a decade from now.

China’s First Twitter Novel

Juliet Ye, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on March 11, 2010 at 8:00 am PT

While Twitter remains generally blocked in China, that hasn’t stopped tech-savvy Chinese from putting the microblog platform to creative uses. This week, influential blogger Lian Yue started publishing a novel on Twitter, believed to be the first time a Chinese-language novel is released on the popular service.

What Hath Flip Wrought?–The Ghoul Edition

Kara Swisher in News on July 9, 2009 at 6:06 am PT

Earlier this week, BoomTown pointed out how Cisco Chairman and CEO John Chambers was captured doing duck calls on the Flip digital video camera, made by the start-up his company bought in March for $590 million. That was an adorable use of the consumer electronic device. But in the not-so-cute department, I submit this photo at right. Sitting next to her boss, Barbara Walters, an ABC producer used it to ghoulishly take shots of the kids of pop legend Michael Jackson memorial service on Monday.