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- Surprise! mossberg's notebook buyers guide recommends Macs
- Surprise! Mossberg's notebook buyers guide recommends MacsMakes sense as Macs ARE superior.Clearly, Apple is the best path for a new computer buyer. For upgraders like me, I'm stuck with the Windows POS environment (and I don't mean point of sale). This is only because WindowsXP is "good enough" for...
- Tags: Desktops, Notebooks, Operating systems, PC Market, Mac OS 10.5.1, Mossberg, Apple Inc., Apple Macintosh, notebook buyer, Microsoft Windows, notebook
- Discussion threads 2008-04-10
- Surprise! mossberg's notebook buyers guide recommends Macs
- The Wall Street Journal's Walt Mossberg has changed the focus of his twice-a-year computer buyer's guides from desktop PCs to notebooks because portables have been outselling desktops since May 2004. In his recent installment (which focuses on "mainstream, nontechnical consumers" and not "heavy gamers, video producers or...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Mossberg, Desktops, Microsoft Windows, Notebooks, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-04-10
- A real-world Vista challenge: Can this Sony Vaio be saved?
- I've been reading Jeremy Toeman's LIVEdigitally for ages. He's got impressive digital media credentials (former VP of Sling Media, co-founder of Mediabolic) and geek cred (self-described "marketing guy" for Bug Labs, which won a CNET Best in Show award at CES this year). Jeremy has done an excellent...
- Tags: Sony Corp., Sony Vaio, Microsoft Windows Vista, Laptop Computer, Jeremy, Mossberg, 30-120, 10-60, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Desktops, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Hardware, Ed Bott
- Blog posts 2008-03-02
- Details surface on the MacBook Air
- Details surface on the MacBook Air.. also remember..... that the MBA is not replacing Macbook or Macbook Pro. It's meant to be feather weight if Macbook is the light weight.I can't really agree on the "slower" processor but otherwise yeah sure there's some "compromises". Everyone should think which one is...
- Tags: Notebooks, Engineering, Mossberg, Apple MacBook, MBA, MacBook Air, battery
- Discussion threads 2008-01-25
- mossberg, Baig and Levy pass judgment on the MacBook Air - Beautiful, but a compromise
- Mossberg, Baig and Levy pass judgment on the MacBook Air - Beautiful, but a compromiseIf onlythey had left in an ethernet and granted a removable battery. Everything else would have been fine. This is really to early for such a device. Wireless isn't yet prevelant enough to...
- Tags: Notebooks, Wi-Fi, MacBook Air, Baig, Apple MacBook, Mossberg, wireless, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-01-24
- Will your phone ever be free?
- Walt Mossberg nails the consensus sentiment about wireless connectivity--we all want our phones freed from their carriers. Mossberg writes: It's intolerable that the same country that produced all this has trapped its citizens in a backward, stifling system when it comes to the next great technology...
- Tags: Phone, Cell Phone, Walt Mossberg, Mossberg, Telecom & Utilities, Cellular Phones, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-10-22
- mossberg reviews Ubuntu
- Mossberg reviews UbuntuYou are missing a poll optionI'm sure that 75% of the readers here could find some way of blaming MS for it. Please add that as a poll option and let's see. :)RE: Mossberg reviews UbuntuI feel disappointed. It appears that Dell has let us down.There is however...
- Tags: UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Ubuntu, Dell Computer Corp., Mossberg, Linux
- Discussion threads 2007-09-17
- mossberg says Flash coming to the iPhone
- Mossberg says Flash coming to the iPhoneVideo on WebsitesI have played Quicktime videos and quicktime streaming on the iphone while playing with it on the store. It's ashame more sites don't use Quicktime..Windows Mobile has Flash in IEKind of funny... but windows mobile and IE play videos and use flash.hmmm...
- Tags: Corporate communications, Operating systems, Apple iPhone, iphone, Microsoft Windows, Mossberg, Microsoft Windows Mobile
- Discussion threads 2007-07-05
- mossberg says Flash coming to the iPhone
- An interesting tidbit today in Walt Mossberg's new column, Questions about Apple's iPhone. In the article he runs down a series of questions about the iPhone including:Question: If the iPhone's Web browser is so good, why can't it play video on Web sites I visit?At launch, the iPhone version of...
- Tags: iPhone, Flash, Adobe
- Blog posts 2007-07-05
- D5: Steve Jobs evangelizes the iPhone and Apple TV
- Steve Jobs took the stage following News Corp. President Peter Chernin for an interview with Walt Mossberg at the D conference. He was if full product evangelist, selling mode, describing the magic Apple's products. He attributed Apple's success to "software wrapped in really wonderful hardware. The software [on...
- Tags: Apple, D5, Personal Technology
- Blog posts 2007-05-30
- D5: Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on the hot seat
- For the opening session at the D conference this morning, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said that his company was a lot more nimble today than when it had 30 people. He was responding to a question from conference co-host Walt Mossberg how the company deals with huge scale of the...
- Tags: D5, Microsoft
- Blog posts 2007-05-30
- mossberg condemns "craplets" preinstalled on new PCs
- Mossberg condemns "craplets" preinstalled on new PCsI would recommend you also tryOpenSuSE 10.2 and PCLinuxOS. Both are excellent, although I will admit, PCLinuxOS is far easier to set up and maintain than OpenSuSE and I have been a SuSE guy for several years! ]:)Removing the crapwareI wonder if the PC...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, crapware, new-PC, PC, Mossberg
- Discussion threads 2007-04-13
- mossberg condemns "craplets" preinstalled on new PCs
- Weve all put up with what my good friend and fellow Tablet PC MVP Warner Crocker has dubbed "crapware" – the pre-bundled software loaded onto new PCs by OEMs – for a long time. Those of us who buy new PCs on a frequent basis have come up with strategies...
- Tags: Windows, Software
- Blog posts 2007-04-12
- WSJ's Walt mossberg likes Office 2007
- WSJ's Walt Mossberg likes Office 2007Walt's right, but he's the Fox News of computing?Never known Mossberg to be fair or balanced in any sense, as I've read him trash good programs over the years and as the previous reader noted, reactively praise all things apple. I have no respect for...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Wall Street Journal, Walt, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Office 2007, Mossberg, Walt Mossberg
- Discussion threads 2007-01-03
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- Will Jobs unveil a new iPhone at the WWDC keynote on June 9th?
- Steve Jobs will kick off Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference WWDC with a Monday morning keynote speech on June 9. Will this be when the new iPhone will be finally revealed to the most rabid of Apple fans? Speculation is rampant that the iPhone 2.0 will be pulled out of Steve's...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Job, Apple Inc., 3G, GPS, Engineering, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- Fixing Windows Vista, one machine at a time
- If the "Vista sucks" movement has a public face, it's the Sony Vaio. No one knows that better than my new friend Jeremy Toeman. In May 2007, this 15-year Windows veteran replaced his old, beloved, XP-powered Vaio with a newer Vaio that came with Windows Vista Business installed. Practically overnight,...
- Tags: Sony Corp., Sony Vaio, Clean Install, Installation, Driver, Microsoft Windows Vista, Machine, Recovery Partition, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Software, Ed Bott
- Blog posts 2008-04-21
- Walt mossberg says 3G iPhone coming within 60 days
- Walt Mossberg says 3G iPhone coming within 60 days3GI am. I am surrounded by ATT's 3G network (so. california) so it will be a no-brainer. However, costs do matter, so let's see how much it will be. By the way, what is the difference between 3G and wi-fi?RE: Walt...
- Tags: Cellular phones, WIRELESS, 3G, Walt Mossberg
- Discussion threads 2008-04-06
- Walt mossberg says 3G iPhone coming within 60 days
- There has been a lot of speculation on when the 3G version of the iPhone would be coming, but today Walt Mossberg appeared to let the cat out of the bag in a video where he states that the 3G iPhone will be released within 60 days. Thanks to The...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Video, Walt Mossberg, 3G, Corporate Communications, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-04-05
- Speeding up a sluggish Sony
- Last week, Jeremy Toeman's accursed Sony Vaio arrived here, and over the weekend I had a chance to get my hands on it for the first time. (If you missed the back story, read the first installment that I posted earlier this month.) The short version: Jeremy, a digital media expert and...
- Tags: Sony Corp., Sony Vaio, Backup, Microsoft Windows Vista, Jeremy Toeman, VGNSZ460N, Desktops, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Hardware, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Ed Bott
- Blog posts 2008-03-18
- Microsoft licenses Adobe Flash Lite, turns up heat under Apple and iPhone?
- Look for Flash applications to be coming to more mobile devices near you, just not an iPhone. Adobe Systems announced today that Microsoft has licensed Adobe's Flash Lite software to enable Flash-compatible content in the Internet Explorer Mobile browser. This will mean that people using those...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Adobe Systems Inc., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Advertising & Promotion, Microsoft Windows, Handhelds, Operating Systems, Marketing, Software, Hardware, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-03-17
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