One time, I was covering a tech event that unveiled a brand-new, hotly anticipated smartphone. I was there alone doing a live blog, typing my fingers off in the darkened auditorium with all my gear around me — my trusty laptop, a digital camera, not one but three smartphones (to make triple sure I could direct-text communication with the head office), plus a mobile hotspot. That last...
Maybe you already know what NFC is. And perhaps the words “quad core” is enough to send chills up your spine. For lay people, however, the mobile scene can sure pack a staggering load of new terms and buzz words. While that may have been fine in the past, when tech was strictly the domain of specialists and geeks, today’s crop of smartphones, tablets and mobile services requires at...
Though perhaps a bit premature, Facebook has just published its "Most Shared Articles" for 2011. (Really? The year's not even over yet…) So what can we learn from this list of 40 articles that have set the social webs abuzz? Well, maybe that the death of traditional media outlets has been greatly exaggerated, considering that CNN, the Washington Post and the New York Times all loom...