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What Are Apple’s Icons Doing on Samsung’s Wall of Apps?

John Paczkowski in News on September 23, 2011 at 3:15 pm PT

Since when does Samsung’s long history of innovation include the iPhone App Store?

Finding the Scale of the Rest of the World Lacking, Early Designer Rejoins Facebook

Liz Gannes in Social on February 14, 2011 at 5:00 am PT

Aaron Sittig, who left Facebook after being the company’s lead designer for five years, is now back at the mother ship, having rejoined in January with the title “product architect.”

Trying Out a Revamped Myspace

Katherine Boehret in The Mossberg Solution on December 21, 2010 at 3:02 pm PT

Katie reviews the revamped Myspace, with its focus on topics in popular culture, including television, music, movies, celebrities and comedy.

Google’s Andy Rubin Gives a Flash of Tablet Future

Ina Fried in Mobile on December 6, 2010 at 6:33 pm PT

Taking the stage to kick off D: Dive into Mobile, Google’s Andy Rubin gave a glimpse of Android 3.0 running on a prototype Motorola tablet. That was the icing on a pastry-laden talk filled with Gingerbread, Froyo and Honeycomb.

Twitter Trusts, No Longer Verifies

Peter Kafka in Media on November 30, 2010 at 10:19 am PT

Want to prove that you’re the real deal on Twitter? Unless you’re really famous, and/or an Apple executive, you can’t do it with a “verified” badge anymore.

Parallels Zips Past Fusion in Running Windows on Macs

Walt Mossberg in Personal Technology on February 10, 2010 at 6:04 pm PT

Walt reviews the latest software for running Windows on a Mac without rebooting.

Oh, Snow Leopard Frees Up Disk Space All Right

John Paczkowski in News on October 13, 2009 at 9:00 am PT

Apple has finally acknowledged that a bug in its new Snow Leopard operating system can, on rare occasions, result in a catastrophic loss of data. The glitch, which first surfaced in support forums in early September, is triggered by logging in and out of a guest account and wipes the main user account of all data. Clearly, this is not what Apple meant when it claimed the OS would free up as much as seven gigs of space upon installation.

A Windows to Help You Forget

Walt Mossberg in Personal Technology on October 7, 2009 at 6:02 pm PT

Walter S. Mossberg calls Windows 7 a boost to productivity and a pleasure to use — Microsoft’s best operating system yet.

App Aims to Up Social Status of Some Basic Cellphones

Katherine Boehret in The Mossberg Solution on March 10, 2009 at 4:46 pm PT

Katie reviews iSkoot’s Notifier, an application designed to give basic cellphones smart-phone-like capabilities.

The TouchSmart Has Improved–But Not Enough

Walt Mossberg in Personal Technology on June 26, 2008 at 12:01 am PT

Hewlett-Packard is rolling out a new TouchSmart, a desktop computer with touch-controlled software. The hardware and software are better. It’s attractive, more versatile and fun to use. But the latest effort still has some problems.