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TechReads for July 16, 2014
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
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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Microsoft to reorg, cut up to 18,000 jobs. (Satya Nadella/Microsoft)
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How to Animate Your Dragon
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
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
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
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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Apple University revealed. (Brian X. Chen/NYTimes) Apple’s in-house training program sounds very, very Apple-esque.
View ArticleI’m Over at Fast Company. Join Me, Won’t You?
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
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
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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Is Sony's Next PSP a Go!?
First off, that’s not me getting really excited in the headline. It’s just the dilemma you get when a product name comes with its own punctuation. Sigh. Anyway, 1UP heard from unnamed inside sources...
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Sony May Cut More PSP Middlemen
At this point, everyone but Sony is talking about a redesigned PSP that ditches physical media in favor of digital downloads. Whether you believe that or not, several reports suggest the PSP will...
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PSP Go is All But Official
Marketing photos, video and details on a new Playstation Portable have leaked three days ahead of Sony’s E3 press conference. The source of the material is Qore, Sony’s official interactive magazine...
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PSP Go is Real, PS3 Price Cut is … No Go!
First, the bad news: Sony’s Playstation 3 will continue to sell for $399. Next, the sort of bad news: the PSP Go, a smaller, lighter handheld dubbed “the worst-kept secret of E3″ by Sony’s Kaz Hirai,...
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Sony’s PSP Go is Go
Sony’s new $250 PSP Go gaming handheld debuts today. With its slide-out control pad, it’s the first PSP that’s truly pocketable (closed, it looks and feels a little like a BlackBerry Storm). It’s also...
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A Modest Proposal for Sony’s PSP, and the Marketing Thereof
Nintendo and Sony reacted predictably to the iPad’s debut last week — that is, they blew it off. Sony’s comments, in particular, deserve scrutiny, because PSP sales fell further last year than any...
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Sony Attacks PSP Pirates, Hurts Used Game Owners
Sony’s PSP has a piracy problem. The company has complained about it, game developers fret over it and the download-only PSP Go exists partly because of it. But Sony’s newest scheme to prevent PSP...
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The PSP2 Comes Into Focus
Sony is kind of, sort of confirming the existence of the PSP2, the follow-up to its beleaguered handheld game console. Kazuo Hirai, Sony’s gaming chief, was “coy” about specifics when speaking to the...
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Sony Slashes PSP Price to $130
We have no idea at what point this year Sony will ship its next-generation portable game console, or NGP, but the PSP is already looking stale. That might explain why Sony is cutting the PSP’s price...
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