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From Cradle to, Well, You Know: The Creepy Factor of Facebook’s Timeline

Kara Swisher in Social on September 23, 2011 at 12:46 pm PT

Even though the social networking site wants to host “The Story of Your Life,” maybe who we were is not, in the end, who we really are.

BoomTown Checks In at the Online-Only Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Kara Swisher in News on August 9, 2010 at 11:05 am PT

A little more than a week ago, while I was in the Pacific Northwest, I decided to pay a visit on the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Or, as its brand is known now: seattlepi.com. That would be the pixel-only version of the newspaper that was founded in 1863 as that city’s first, publishing a print version until March of 2009. It was then that the presses stopped and the computing began at the unit, owned by Hearst Corp. Click in to see how it’s going so far.

Apple’s Next iPhone More of an iPad Mini?

John Paczkowski in Mobile on May 17, 2010 at 8:15 am PT

Market source reports from Taiwanese trade publications are usually best taken with a grain of salt, if not a salt lick, particularly when they’re about Apple. That said, Digitimes reports today that the company’s next-generation iPhone is interesting in its detail.

Netbooks That Are Easier on the Eye

Katherine Boehret in The Mossberg Solution on October 27, 2009 at 5:07 pm PT

Katherine Boehret reviews small, inexpensive laptops from Nokia and H-P with higher-resolution screens that reveal more of what’s online.

The Motorola CLIQ: WINR or LOZR?

John Paczkowski in News on September 10, 2009 at 12:30 pm PT

Motorola has finally announced its bet-the-company Android handset. At GigaOM’s Mobilize 09 event in San Francisco this morning, Sanjay Jha, Motorola’s co-CEO and CEO of the company’s handset division, uncrated the CLIQ, a device it describes unremarkably as the “first phone with social skills.”

A BlackBerry Priced Right For Newcomers

Katherine Boehret in The Mossberg Solution on August 12, 2009 at 12:52 am PT

A new BlackBerry costs less than any other BlackBerry did at launch—that is, if you buy it at the right place.

Is Bigger Better? Here Come the Supersized Web Ads.

Peter Kafka in Media on June 29, 2009 at 9:01 pm PT

Earlier this year, an online publishing trade group promised to get its members to start running new, bigger, harder-to-ignore ads by July. So here they are: The Online Publishers Association says 37 sites, including the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and CNN.com, will start selling the plus-sized ads this week. Now we’ll see if they work.

Flip Camcorder Goes High-Def

Katherine Boehret in The Mossberg Solution on November 11, 2008 at 5:40 pm PT

Katie reviews the Pure Digital Technologies Flip MinoHD, a handheld camcorder that is capable of capturing high-definition footage in 1280×720 pixel resolution, or 720p. (The regular Mino records at 640×480 pixels.)

Think of It as an iPhone With a Broken Touchscreen

John Paczkowski in News on May 12, 2008 at 6:14 am PT

With its curvier edges, stylish silver trim, half-VGA 480-by-320 pixel screen and improved iTunes compatibility, Research in Motion’s new BlackBerry Bold should be a big hit with IT operations professionals convinced the iPhone isn’t an enterprise-class mobile device but driven to near-aneurysm by discontented employees demanding them.