Monthly Archive: January 2013

What Would You Like To Ask HP?

Tomorrow I’m interviewing an executive at HP, and I wanted to give you all a shot to jump in with questions. My escapades dealing with HP support are pretty well known, so I’m excited to talk to them, and see what they think is going on, and what they plan to do about it. I’ll hopefully have the story out, edited, and written within...

Look Out McDonalds: Samsung Sells over 100 Million Galaxy S Devices

McDonalds sold over 10 billion $1-5 hamburgers. Samsung sold over 100 million $300 Galaxy S devices. Which is more impressive? It’s a matter of opinion. They’re still far from Apple’s 400 Million + active iOS devices, but those are some big numbers. Samsung has been really successful with their S line lately, with both the SII and SIII coming to rave reviews. Can they...

Unexpected By Design Part 2: Steve Jobs and the iPod

Yesterday we showed you how differently the founders of Snapchat, Facebook, Youtube, and others envisioned their websites being used. Well here’s another example of what I’m beginning to call “the founder’s phenomina”. When Steve Jobs first got onto the stage of Walt Mossberg’s first annual D Tech conference in 2003, he was fresh off of the success of the iPod and the redesigned iMac....

Snapchat Founder, “SnapChat is About Transparency, Not Privacy” (video)

A few months ago I shared this gem from Mark Zuckerberg talking about why Facebook wasn’t a social network. Now, I’m sharing a video from the founder of the company he tried to rip off, Snapchat. In it, Liz Gannes of AllThingsD does a spontaneous interview with Snapchat founder Evan Spiegel in which Spiegel talks about why Snapchat is about transparency, and not privacy. As a...

Dancing Drones! (Video)

There’s nothing more fun than drones, as proven by this synchronized performance by several Parrot AR Drones which danced in sync with music (unless you’re a terrorist dodging hellfires from a Predator- but that’s another story). This all went down at CES this week, and it was just one of the many incredible things on the floor we’ll be covering. Enjoy. Give this article a...