10 posts and columns on world

It’s a So-Lo-Mo World, After All

in Mobile on June 14, 2011 at 5:41 pm PT

Let it be said: For a digital information junkie such as myself, traveling abroad without any cellular or consistent Internet connection on my spanking new white iPhone is agonizing. As in: No social, no local, no mobile.
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Viral Video: Forget 2012, Try 5/21/11

in News on March 14, 2011 at 12:24 am PT

The Internet is host to a lot of things, including a persistent number of people using it to predict the end of the world. And so it is again, with a spate of videos popping up online of late, all focused around May 21, 2011 as the day of the “rapture” and the beginning of the end of the world on October 21, 2011.

From U.S. to Germany to China–BoomTown Goes Around the (Digital) World in a Week

in News on January 21, 2011 at 5:22 pm PT

It’s a big, wide and very digital world out there and that’s why I’m headed around the globe–quite literally–for the next week to see some non-Silicon Valley tech trends and more.

How to Liven Up an EMC Product Launch? Stuff a Mini Cooper, Naturally. (Video)

in Enterprise on January 19, 2011 at 10:03 am PT

EMC launched 41 products at an event in New York yesterday, the theme for which was “record breakers.” So the company decided to break a world record onstage while demonstrating “simple and efficient storage.”

Using Phones Globally

in Mossberg’s Mailbox on November 17, 2010 at 2:40 pm PT

Walt answers readers’ questions on global phones, the Verizon iPhone, Samsung Tab and the iPad.

Flickr Co-Founder Butterfield Talks About His New Game Start-Up, Glitch

in News on August 23, 2010 at 9:40 am PT

Last Friday, BoomTown dropped in on Stewart Butterfield–now ensconced in Vancouver, Canada–to see what the Flickr co-founder has been up to since decamping from Yahoo a while back. Yahoo bought the innovative British Columbia-based photo-sharing service in 2005 for upward of $25 million. Now it seems Butterfield is back where he started, since Flickr was actually initially part of an original gaming project called Game Neverending. Apparently, it never did end, and now there is Glitch. Almost, that is.

Yahoo Renovates Its Home Page

in The Mossberg Solution on July 28, 2009 at 4:52 pm PT

Katherine Boehret reviews Yahoo’s made-over home page, which features less clutter and new “apps.”
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