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Atrix 4G: Faux Laptop With a Phone For Brains

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.

BoomTown Headed to Vegas for the Umpteenth Time–And I Am Not Even Tiger Woods!

Kara Swisher in News on January 6, 2010 at 5:15 am PT

BoomTown will be Southwesting to Las Vegas today for the annual Consumer Electronics Show, being held there over the next several days. CES has certainly lost some of its immediacy over the last several years, but it is still the place to see a lot of different kinds of tech treats in one spot and try to discern the tech tea leaves. This year, Walt Mossberg and I are trying to up the ante a bit by throwing a substantive interview event with top tech execs, which All Things Digital will be live-streaming on Friday. So, what happens in Vegas, stays right here.

Beatles Boost EMI. (But About That Debt…)

Peter Kafka in Media on December 14, 2009 at 7:11 am PT

The good news for EMI is that it is selling lots and lots of Beatles albums. Still! The bad news: EMI’s owner is suing its lender–and trying to borrow more money. Who said the music business was glamorous?

Apple’s App Store: 100,000 Apps, “Well Over” Two Billion Downloads

John Paczkowski in News on November 4, 2009 at 5:48 am PT

When it launched on July 10, 2008, Apple’s iTunes App Store held just 552 apps. Today, Apple tells us, it boasts more than 100,000. Astonishing, really, when you think about it. The App Store isn’t even two years old yet. Nor is the iPhone SDK.

Beatles on iTunes? Nope. MP3? Yes.

Peter Kafka in Media on November 3, 2009 at 5:20 pm PT

No, you still can’t buy the Beatles on iTunes. But next month, you will finally be able to buy the band’s music–legally–in MP3 form. Provided you’re willing to pay way, way up.

$11,115 Toshiba TV Can Time-Shift Owners into Bankruptcy

John Paczkowski in News on October 5, 2009 at 2:19 pm PT

Toshiba has seen the future of television: A 55-inch, liquid-crystal display jacked into a three-terabyte set-top box capable of displaying eight high-definition broadcasts at once. What is this TV among TVs, this holy grail of couch potatoans called? The Cell Regza 55X1. And it costs $11,115.

The Island of Doctor Moto

John Paczkowski in News on March 30, 2009 at 11:02 am PT

It looks to be some Moreauian chimera of iPhone and Pre, but Motorola’s new QA4 Evoke seems a far slicker handset than most we’ve seen from the company lately. Odd then that it’s to make its debut on a flat-rate carrier like Cricket.

Apple’s iPod Touch Can Act as Remote For Music System

Nick Wingfield in Personal Technology on August 27, 2008 at 6:34 pm PT

With an iPhone or iPod Touch, Apple’s new program Remote can convert an MP3 player into a sophisticated remote control for digital-music collections.

Motorola ROKR E8:Hip and User-Friendly

Katherine Boehret in The Mossberg Solution on June 25, 2008 at 12:01 am PT

Motorola’s ROKR E8 is a head-turning phone with many built-in advances that give it a smarter interface than basic cellphones. Its standout feature is its keyboard, which dynamically changes to accommodate whatever you’re doing.

Pull Those Engineers Off OS X 10.6 and Put Them on the Clock Radio …

John Paczkowski in News on May 22, 2008 at 12:36 pm PT

Good thing Forrester doesn’t run Apple, because if it did the company would be well on its way to insolvency. In an astonishingly unimaginative report called “The Future of Apple Inc.,” Forrester attempts to divine the products Apple will be peddling 5 years from now.