Harry McCracken

Twitter, FM and Microsoft Extend Association with ExecTweets IT

By Douglas Quenqua, ClickZ, Nov 24, 2009 Six months after Twitter, Microsoft and Federated Media teamed up to launch ExecTweets, a service that streams business tweets from a handpicked collection of executives, the group is...

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Google News: Google Unveils Chrome OS; Tech World Yawns - PC World

Earlier this week, Google gave the world a first look at the Chrome OS. The press event confirmed what was suspected when Google announced it was working on a netbook operating system four months ago -- it would emphasize speed...

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Microsoft's Silverlight Vision

Microsoft's Silverlight Vision PC World Microsoft wants Silverlight to be optimized for every platform that it runs on, said Brian Goldfarb, director of developer and user experience platforms at Microsoft, during an interview...

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Google Unveils Chrome OS; Tech World Yawns

Earlier this week, Google gave the world a first look at the Chrome OS. The press event confirmed what was suspected when Google announced it was working on a netbook operating system four months ago -- it would emphasize speed...

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Bamboo Fun and Bamboo Pen & Touch

For years, Wacom's graphics tablets have let digital artists and others dispense with a mouse in favor of an intuitive, precise pen. Now the company's newly refreshed line of Bamboo pen tablets also work with the most natural...

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Pulse Smartpen Gets Its Own App Store

Livescribe's unique pen just got a lot more useful with the addition of apps. Harry McCracken, Technologizer "Unique" is one of the most overused words in tech, but it's the only way to describe Livescribe's Pulse smartpen....

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Microsoft's Thoroughly Modern IE9?

Browser will get a faster JavaScript and HTML5 support, but we don't know what it will look like, or when it will arrive. Harry McCracken, Technologizer , Microsoft began talking about Internet Explorer 9 in public yesterday at...

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When Bad Things Happen to Good Products

Ten major upgrades that went awry, the consumer revolts they prompted, and how the products involved recovered--or didn't. By Harry Mccracken , PC World , 11/19/2009 Technology companies are awfully fond of comparing their work...

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When Bad Things Happen to Good Products

Ten major upgrades that went awry, the consumer revolts they prompted, and how the products involved recovered--or didn't. No, this list doesn't include the most legendary cruddy upgrades of them all, Windows Me and Windows...

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5 O’clock Roundup: Office web app impressions, AT&T’s legal skirmish with Verizon

Here’s the latest action: Microsoft releases beta test downloads of Office 2010 — This is basically the first time the public has a chance to play with the much-vaunted web application versions of Office. Due to a bunch of...

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