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Exploring iStuff at CES With Mobilized (Video)

Ina Fried in Mobile on January 10, 2011 at 5:14 pm PT

Apple may not have been in Vegas, but its legions of followers were. The maker of the Mac and iPhone prefers having the stage to itself, but an entire section of CES was devoted to iStuff. Mobilized toured the show floor and has a video report.

The Turducken-Free All Things D Thanksgiving Reader (And Watcher)

Liz Gannes in Social on November 24, 2010 at 12:10 pm PT

Hold the Turducken! Even without that freakish Thanksgiving treat, the Web is full of fun diversions on every topic, including the thankful, enhanced-patted-down long weekend of consumption Americans have ahead of us.

iPad Wi-Fi Woes?

John Paczkowski in Mobile on April 5, 2010 at 9:56 am PT

Though a marvel of design and engineering, Apple’s iPad, like most first-generation devices, is not without flaws. Just two days at market and already some new iPad owners are flocking to Apple’s support forums, complaining about temperamental Wi-Fi connectivity.

Flying the Digitally Friendly Skies: Gogo, Google and the Facebook PR Guy in 17D

Kara Swisher in News on November 13, 2009 at 2:11 pm PT

So, BoomTown–who cannot be unplugged from the matrix for very long without breaking into a cold sweat–was pretty excited to have free Wi-Fi on my Virgin America flight to Washington, D.C., early this morning. Lots of Web companies are footing the bill for people to use wireless for free, in an attempt to boost use and, of course, their brand. While that should be a given in this country, I won’t look a digital gift horse in the mouth.

OS X 10.5.8 Kills Bugs Dead

John Paczkowski in News on August 5, 2009 at 4:17 pm PT

Apple on Wednesday released OS X 10.5.8, the latest point release to Mac OS X Leopard, even as Amazon takes pre-orders for its next iteration–Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6). 10.5.8 is largely a maintenance update, though it does patch a number of security vulnerabilities (18 to be exact), some of them fairly old.

Steve Brill’s Clear Card Gets Grounded

Peter Kafka in Media on June 22, 2009 at 8:38 pm PT

A system to speed elite travelers through airports shuts down after four years and $116 million. Its failure will rub some shine off a couple of well-known media types: The entrepreneur behind Court TV and some of the primary investors behind Twitter.

Google Outage Caused by Asian "Traffic Jam"

John Paczkowski in News on May 14, 2009 at 12:23 pm PT

If the Web has a single point of failure, you’d think it was Google, given the outcry over the the outages suffered by some of the company’s services Thursday. Something went wrong at the company this morning and whatever it was had widespread effects on a broad spectrum of Google services. The source of the disruption? A system error that sent a bunch of Google Web traffic to Asia, apparently.

Google Outage Caused by Asian “Traffic Jam”

John Paczkowski in News on May 14, 2009 at 12:23 pm PT

If the Web has a single point of failure, you’d think it was Google, given the outcry over the the outages suffered by some of the company’s services Thursday. Something went wrong at the company this morning and whatever it was had widespread effects on a broad spectrum of Google services. The source of the disruption? A system error that sent a bunch of Google Web traffic to Asia, apparently.