Oct 5, 2017 | Amazon, Android, Apple, Chromebook, Google, hardware, laptops, phone, photos, shopping, web_services
Today Google introduced eight new devices that will be released this fall – phones, home assistants, a laptop, a virtual reality headset, and more. It’s the most diverse new product lineup from a technology company in recent memory. Apple just announced three new...
Jul 10, 2017 | Amazon, business, shopping
You’re an Amazon Prime member, right? If not, goodness, get over there and sign up. Give Amazon $99 for the privilege of shopping there. You’ll feel that it’s money well spent. It does not work by trickery. It works because you are convinced that you are getting great...
Jul 6, 2017 | Amazon, Android, augmented reality, business, Google, Microsoft, search
The European Union’s head of antitrust enforcement hit Google with a $2.7 billion fine last week because of a shopping service you’ve never heard of. The EU’s action comes after seven years of tussling with Google. The case was almost settled in 2014 but intense...
Jun 5, 2017 | Amazon, Google
Now you can say what a timer is for when you set it on an Amazon Echo. “Alexa, set a timer for the pasta for eight minutes.” Then set a second timer: “Alexa, set a timer for the laundry for 30 minutes.” Eight minutes later, the Echo will chime, and Alexa will say,...
May 24, 2017 | Amazon, Android, Apple, augmented reality, business, Google, mobile, phone, web_services, WeChat
Google announced a number of new products and services at its developer conference last week. One of them, Google Lens, might change the world. It might be the most important technology announcement in ten years. Of course, it’s just as likely that it will turn out to...
Jan 3, 2017 | Amazon, Android, Apple, Dropbox, Facebook, Google, news, Vista
It’s the ten-year anniversary of one of the most important inflection points in history. 2007 was such an eventful year that its significance seems obvious in hindsight, but it’s gone unremarked until Thomas Friedman spelled it out in a new book. Thomas Friedman, the...
