OQO – Technologizer by Harry McCracken

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5Words for April 23rd, 2009

April 23, 2009, 9:30 am

Hey, BlackBerry fans, good news: Spy shots: Skyfire’s BlackBerry browser. YouTube gets a chat feature. New Ubuntu available for download. Microsoft: still under antitrust watch. $9000 Leica camera:...

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The Trouble With Tiny Windows Computers

April 24, 2009, 4:14 pm

Things don’t look good for OQO, the company behind a series of handheld computers that ran full-blown Windows. As Eliot Buskirk reports over at Wired.com, the company has lost its CEO and resellers...

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TechReads for July 16, 2014

July 16, 2014, 10:02 am

Why that Comcast rep wouldn’t let Ryan and Veronica just cancel. (Adrianne Jeffries/The Verge) Because doing so would cost him money. Fox tried to buy Time Warner. (Andrew Ross Sorkin/Michael De La...

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The New Features in Jawbone’s Up App Are All About Eating

July 16, 2014, 3:52 pm

Thanks to wearable fitness gadgets such as Jawbone’s Up and Up24 wristbands, it’s now very easy to get some sense of how many calories you’re burning as you go about your everyday activities. But...

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TechReads for July 17

July 17, 2014, 11:58 am

Microsoft to reorg, cut up to 18,000 jobs. (Satya Nadella/Microsoft)

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How to Animate Your Dragon

July 18, 2014, 7:16 pm

A DreamWorks Animation artist works on How to Train Your Dragon 2 using Premo Mr. Peabody and Sherman, the computer-animated movie which DreamWorks Animation released in March is–of course–the tale of...

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A Celebration of James Garner’s Polaroid Commercials

July 20, 2014, 11:52 am

They weren’t the best thing he ever did, or the one which we’ll cherish the most. But with the sad news of the passing of James Garner, it’s worth pausing to remember the commercials he did in the late...

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I’m Going to Want a Car With Built-In LTE…Eventually

July 21, 2014, 2:07 am

Buick owners enjoying their car’s built-in LTE in a photo provided by GM Last week, General Motors invited me to a press event at which it showed off some new Buicks. Normally, such events involve...

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RIP, Jim Frederick

August 1, 2014, 3:41 pm

Jim Frederick, the first editor I had during my time as a tech writer for TIME, died unexpectedly on Thursday night. He was only 42, and I’m still in shock. The loss would be incalculable no matter...

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TechReads for August 11, 2014

August 11, 2014, 12:20 am

Apple University revealed. (Brian X. Chen/NYTimes) Apple’s in-house training program sounds very, very Apple-esque.

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I’m Over at Fast Company. Join Me, Won’t You?

August 11, 2014, 12:30 am

Just a quick reminder: I’m now happily ensconced in my new gig as technology editor for Fast Company. That means that the vast majority of my tech writing will appear on FastCompany.com. To see what...

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That Time I Interviewed Click and Clack

November 3, 2014, 12:34 pm

Back in the summer of 1997, I got my one and only assignment for a magazine called The Web, back when it seemed like it made sense to publish reviews and profiles relating to websites on dead trees. It...

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Technologizer: The Flipboard Edition

January 24, 2016, 12:55 am

Back in 2014, when I became technology editor for Fast Company, I said I was keeping Technologizer open and reserved the right to write here if I had anything to say that didn’t fit into Fast Company....

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