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Google TV: No Need to Tune In Just Yet

Walt Mossberg in Personal Technology on November 17, 2010 at 6:07 pm PT

Google TV, the latest attempt to integrate Web video and regular TV, is a bold effort, but it is ultimately too complicated for mainstream use.

D8 Tech Demo: OnLive

Drake Martinet in D8 on June 3, 2010 at 10:16 am PT

On-demand streaming has crept into nearly every media space, and today, OnLive hopes to open the last door and bring high-end games to users, streamed from the cloud.

Two Laptops Take Images to Another Dimension

Katherine Boehret in The Mossberg Solution on March 2, 2010 at 2:37 pm PT

Katie looks at two laptops that use 3D technology to make photos, movies and games pop.

Hello Kitty–A Snow Leopard Review Roundup

John Paczkowski in News on August 28, 2009 at 11:44 am PT

Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, the latest iteration of Apple’s operating system, arrived at market today–about a month earlier than originally anticipated. And while it doesn’t really deliver the GUI enhancements we’ve come to expect from Apple and some incompatibilities are riling people up, Snow Leopard’s under-the-hood improvements and price point appear to have struck a chord with critics. After the jump, a selection of early reviews.

Apple Changes Leopard’s Spots

Walt Mossberg in Personal Technology on August 26, 2009 at 6:01 pm PT

Apple’s Snow Leopard operating system improves upon its predecessor, writes Walt Mossberg. But it isn’t a big breakthrough for average users, and it isn’t a typical Apple lust-provoking product.

WWDC 2009 Keynote LIVE: Safari 4, Dock Expose, Quicktime and Grand Central Dispatch

John Paczkowski in News on June 8, 2009 at 11:01 am PT

Moving on now to Safari 4, which is shipping from Apple today for Leopard, Tiger, AND Windows … Safari 4 offers unsurpassed speed for HTML and Javascript. It’s also Acid3 compliant. Safari 4 is 100 percent compliant as opposed to IE, which is 21 percent compliant. Safari 4 is also more crash-resistant and 40 percent faster than its predecessors.

And by “Bug Fix,” We Mean the Palm Pre’s iTunes Integration…

John Paczkowski in News on June 2, 2009 at 6:13 am PT

Apple rolled out updates to QuickTime and iTunes on Monday, presumably as preface to iPhone 3.0. Included in iTunes 8.2 are “many accessibility improvements and bug fixes.” Just what Apple means by that is unclear, although one wonders if it might be a clever euphemism for the Palm Pre’s recently disclosed Media Sync feature, which allows the device to synchronize seamlessly with iTunes, essentially by masquerading as an iPod.

The Search for a Simple Cellphone

Walt Mossberg in Mossberg’s Mailbox on April 5, 2007 at 12:01 am PT

Walt answers questions about finding a simple cellphone, Apple TV’s video formats and networking two Windows PCs.

Anyone Can Produce, And Star, in a Video — Just like Mine

Walt Mossberg in Personal Technology on February 8, 2007 at 12:01 am PT

Walt Mossberg explains how he makes his weekly Web videos — and how viewers can easily do so as well.