Kara Swisher in News on March 30, 2011 at 1:10 pm PT
BoomTown scrambled the
All Things Digital jet (aka, United Airlines, Seat 7A) late last night to get up to Microsoft’s big event for its online advertising clients today.
Called “Imagine 2011: Marketing Leadership Summit” and held at its Redmond, Wa. HQ, the two-day event is designed to wow peeps by trotting out a spate of
strategery concepts those who buy advertising on Microsoft’s various digital offerings from its Bing search service to MSN to Xbox to Windows Phone 7.
Walt Mossberg in Personal Technology on February 16, 2011 at 2:37 pm PT
Walt reviews the Motorola Atrix 4G Android smart phone, which acts as the brains of a small laptop device.
Walt Mossberg in Mossberg’s Mailbox on February 2, 2011 at 3:00 pm PT
Walt answers readers’ questions on security software, a computer for preparing taxes and Wi-Fi for iPads.
Voices
Voices, Associate Editor, All Things Digital in News on December 22, 2010 at 1:58 pm PT
After a year of delays, promises and refunded deposits, the WakeMate sleep monitoring gadget is finally shipping. But do you want it watching you sleep?
John Paczkowski in News on November 30, 2010 at 11:40 am PT
Investors betting Research in Motion will sell about 10 million BlackBerry PlayBooks in the next fiscal year best temper their expectations a bit. With the iPad juggernaut rolling inexorably forward and a groaning board of rival tablets headed to market in the months ahead, some analysts are suggesting that RIM may not sell quite as many PlayBooks as it hopes.
Voices
Nathan Becker, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on October 22, 2010 at 10:58 am PT
Hewlett-Packard Co. released a touchscreen tablet computer Friday that runs Windows, becoming the latest computer maker to jump into the fray following Apple Inc.’s debut of the iPad earlier this year.
Voices
Jennifer Valentino-DeVries, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on October 20, 2010 at 3:35 pm PT
When it comes to connecting to the Internet quickly, the best place to be isn’t Silicon Valley, or even Japan. It’s the city of Masan, South Korea, according to a report released Wednesday by Akamai Technologies Inc.
And Masan’s speeds are blazing fast. It’s the only city in the report with average connection speed above 20 megabits per second. In contrast, the fastest city in the U.S., Monterey Park, Calif., had an average speed of 6.9 Mbps.
News Byte
Beth Callaghan in News on October 19, 2010 at 2:51 pm PT
This whole Internet thing is really catching on. The number of people online has doubled in the last five years to two billion, and
will reach one-third of the world’s population by the end of 2010, according to statistics from the International Telecommunications Union. Connection in the developing world is growing at a faster clip, but only 21 percent of people in developing countries will be online, as opposed to 71 percent in developed countries.
Walt Mossberg in Mossberg’s Mailbox on May 12, 2010 at 6:02 pm PT
Walt answers readers’ questions, including one about the ‘n’ versus ‘g’ version of Wi-Fi.
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.
