Flash won video before video was the question
Almost all the video you watch on the web arrives inside a plugin made by a graphics software company, and it got…
The desktop lost on furniture, not benchmarks
Laptops are outselling desktops and the explanation offered is that portable machines have finally caught up on performance. The first half is…
Flash prices came loose from the PC cycle
An eight gigabyte USB stick cost about a hundred and fifty dollars a year ago. It is now somewhere in the fifties…
Businesses just discovered they can refuse an upgrade
Buy a business laptop from any major manufacturer this month and there is a good chance it arrives with Vista Business on…
One handset made YouTube re-encode everything
There is a YouTube application on Apple’s new phone, and getting it there required Google to re-encode its entire video library into…
Sony Cuts PlayStation 3 Price to $499, Introduces 80GB Model Addressing Slow Sales
Sony launched PlayStation 3 price reduction from $599 to $499 for 60GB model on July 12, 2007 while introducing new 80GB configuration…
Summer Technology Announcements 2007
Summer technology announcements showcase upcoming product releases and innovations. The summer 2007 technology announcement season represented a period of significant industry transformation…
Microsoft Just Set Aside a Billion Dollars Because the Xbox 360 Keeps Dying
Microsoft revealed a charge over $1 billion to extend Xbox 360 warranties due to the widespread "Red Ring of Death" issue. Meanwhile,…
Microsoft Extends Xbox 360 Warranty to Three Years Addressing Red Ring of Death Crisis
Microsoft extended Xbox 360 warranties to three years on July 5, 2007, addressing widespread Red Ring of Death hardware failures that plagued…
The Red Ring of Death: Xbox 360’s $1 Billion Crisis
The Red Ring of Death was the Xbox 360's catastrophic hardware-failure crisis. In 2007 Microsoft took a charge of up to $1.15…
Apple shipped the phone and left developers outside it
The phone went on sale yesterday. Developers still have no way to write anything for it, and the official position from Moscone…
Apple iPhone Launches June 29 Generating Massive Consumer Demand, Multi-Day Retail Queues
Apple released iPhone on June 29, 2007 generating unprecedented consumer demand with customers queuing outside retail locations nationwide days before launch culminating…
Nokia N95 Premium Smartphone Success
Nokia N95 gains market recognition as premium multimedia smartphone. By June 2007, Nokia’s N95 had established itself as the premium smartphone market’s…
Frameworks sell you the first ninety percent
The argument for the current generation of web frameworks is that a small team can now build in three months what used…
HTC’s Touch is the right software on the wrong screen
In February I said the test of whether HTC’s rebrand was real would be whether it shipped something where the software was…