Mike Isaac in Social on October 7, 2013 at 8:40 am PT
A subtle set of changes on Twitter’s front door make for a simpler explanation of the service.
Lauren Goode in Product Reviews on October 8, 2012 at 6:00 am PT
Printers are normally a source of frustration. Here are two that keep it simple but still get the job done.
Kara Swisher in Media on May 5, 2011 at 2:13 pm PT
Today, after Demand Media beat Wall Street expectations, its cheerful execs got on the horn with investors to explain how it plans to beat the Panda.
That would be the beastly name for Google’s rejiggering of its search algorithm, in order to rid search results of poor quality content.
BoomTown liveblogged the event, of course.
Ina Fried in Mobile on March 30, 2011 at 4:00 am PT
In the time since Microsoft released the first version of Windows Phone 7 last fall, Apple has managed to roll out a new version of the iPad as well as two updates to the operating system that powers the iPhone and iPad. Google has introduced both Gingerbread for Android phones and Honeycomb for Android tablets.
In that same time, Redmond has been struggling to get out just one rather modest feature update.
Ina Fried in Mobile on March 28, 2011 at 4:30 am PT
Microsoft’s efforts to update Windows Phone 7 have proven a bit challenging on both the communications and technical fronts.
In a posting on Microsoft’s developer site, vice president Joe Belfiore apologizes and pledges to both communicate and execute better in the future.
Ina Fried in Mobile on March 10, 2011 at 2:42 pm PT
The company confirms the first notable update to Windows Phone 7, originally slated for the first two weeks of March, has been delayed until late this month.
Ina Fried in Mobile on March 4, 2011 at 4:43 pm PT
Redmond encounters several problems in its first attempt to update Windows Phone 7 devices. And these problems have come in an update that doesn’t even add features. This update is designed merely to get the phones ready for an update, expected later this month, that adds copy and paste, along with performance improvements and better search from within the Windows Marketplace.
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.
Kara Swisher in News on February 1, 2011 at 11:53 am PT
Perusing AOL’s leaked damn-the-journalism-full-speed-ahead business plan, BoomTown was a little late to the Microsoft Bing event this morning called “Farsight: Beyond the Search Box.”
But things had certainly been cooking with gas when I walked into the meeting room at the University of San Francisco, including allegations of cheating, honeypot stings and a whole lot of insulting of the hosts.
Schweeet!