Ina Fried in Mobile on February 1, 2011 at 4:02 am PT
In an interview, former Palm designer Matias Duarte talks about the changes that will allow Android to evolve from a phone-centric operating system to one well-suited to tablets and all manner of other devices.
Katherine Boehret in The Digital Solution on January 25, 2011 at 2:23 pm PT
Katie looks at three computer mice made for laptop users. Their designs make them simple to pack in a bag, use while sitting on the couch or recharge directly from the laptop.
Ina Fried in Mobile on January 5, 2011 at 1:19 pm PT
Windows boss Steven Sinofsky took to the stage Wednesday to announce Microsoft’s efforts to broaden the types of chips on which the flagship operating system will run.
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Beth Callaghan in News on September 30, 2010 at 2:03 pm PT
Showcasing an interesting new use of 3D technology,
Panasonic unveiled a hair-washing robot today that scans the shape and surface of a client’s head in order to apply “just the right amount of pressure” while shampooing and massaging each scalp. The robot was designed to help at understaffed healthcare facilities in Japan, where the rapidly aging population is a growing issue.
Drake Martinet, Intern, All Things Digital in News on May 28, 2010 at 12:05 pm PT
This week, we coffee’d at Coupa Cafe on the Stanford University campus to interview Ben Zotto. He’s the mind behind Cocoa Box Design, the app company responsible for Penultimate, a sleeper hit at the iPad App Store.
Ben is developing popular software that is just a little outside of Apple CEO Steve Jobs’s vision for his “magical” device. That doesn’t seem to bother Zotto though.
Kara Swisher in News on October 5, 2009 at 8:10 am PT
Way back in the fall of 2001, BoomTown attended a keynote speech at the now-defunct Comdex show in Las Vegas, where Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates continued to bang the drum for one of his long-running obsessions: The tablet computer.
It is an obsession he has never given up.
So it is ironic that all the hype has suddenly and firmly coalesced around the particulars of the tablet that Apple has developed–a device being spearheaded by CEO Steve Jobs and likely to arrive in the coming months.
John Paczkowski in News on September 22, 2009 at 5:49 pm PT
Well, what do you know? Like Apple, Microsoft is also developing a tablet computer. It’s called “Courier” and it’s remarkably different from what Apple is imagined to be cooking up.
John Paczkowski in News on July 15, 2009 at 3:08 pm PT
Apple and Microsoft have long competed for market space. And soon they’ll be competing for retail space as well. In remarks at Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference today, COO Kevin Turner said Microsoft has settled on a location for the retail stores it announced earlier this year: Right next to Apple’s stores. There goes the neighborhood, right?
Kara Swisher in News on February 13, 2009 at 6:00 am PT
Displaying BoomTown’s advanced age and elephantine cache of meaningless tech memories, after news yesterday that the software giant was plunging into the retail market, I was surprised to find little mention that Microsoft’s last store effort had ended in failure in 2001.
That’s not to say it’s a particularly good or bad idea to hire a former Dreamworks and Wal-Mart exec named David Porter as vice president of retail stores to create Microsoft-branded stores–or as the company announced yesterday, “to create a better PC and Microsoft retail purchase experience.”
Just as long as the Zunes go on the back shelf!
