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Top iOS Apps of 2010: Flipboard, Hipstamatic, Plants Vs. Zombies and Osmos

in Mobile on December 9, 2010 at 3:45 pm PT

Just nine days into December and the “Best of 2010? lists are already piling up like early snow. The latest, Apple’s iTunes Rewind, highlights the store’s most popular content of the year and, while its lists of music and movies are certainly worth a look, its breakdown of popular iOS apps is most interesting.
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Ford Drives Digital Dashboards to Next Level

in Personal Technology on October 6, 2010 at 6:03 pm PT

Walt finds Ford’s new touch-screen dashboard, MyFord Touch, to have clear, logical displays and a good voice-command system. But the interface has so many options it presents a challenging learning curve.
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No File! No Icon! Litl Is a Big Idea, but Still Cloudy

in Personal Technology on December 30, 2009 at 6:31 pm PT

The laptop melds cloud computing with a TV-like viewing experience, but it gets mixed reviews for poor battery life and some clumsy features, writes Walt Mossberg.
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Apple iPhone Apps: Fast-Growing but Not Quite Fast Enough for the ADD Set

in News on August 11, 2008 at 3:47 pm PT

Someone get a dose of Ritalin stat to the noisy but deeply misguided critics who took news of a huge number of downloads of apps for the Apple iPhone and immediately concluded it was just not good enough. Thus, as reported today in The Wall Street Journal, 60 million downloads in 30 days–mostly for free apps, but with about $30 million in revenue, and a runway of three million more new iPhones out there too–is a chance to talk about how it all is just so unexciting and how the apps market is officially saturated? Am I missing something here? One would assume that were these pundits pioneers, they would get to Ohio and declare that going farther west held very little promise, thank you very much!

All Grown Up: Apple Apps Are for Adults (There, We Said It)

in News on July 21, 2008 at 8:26 am PT

When Apple releases its third-quarter earnings after the close today, Wall Street will be looking hard for a solid performance from the company to help buoy a tech sector smacked silly by weak reports from industry leaders Microsoft and Google last week. But more important to me is what is happening with the plethora of third-party apps now available on the iTunes App Store–both free and paid–for use on the iPhone platform. That’s because Apple has finally built a platform for adults.