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Jim Wilson/The New York TimesGoogle's glasses cost $1,500, for a special pre-order.From the printing press to the Google glasses, the earliest lumbering efforts in technology morph over time into streamlined, unnoticed tools of daily life, writes Nick Bilton. Read more…
Jonathan Ernst/ReutersTrees littered the east lawn of the Capitol in Washington.Amazon Web Services, which stores vast amounts of data for companies worldwide, was knocked offline by electrical storms across the East Coast. The failure also took a number of sites, including Netflix, Instagram and Pinterest, offline. Read more…
Yes, the Internet offers many distractions, but sometimes they can make us more efficient for the long haul, write Jenna Wortham in her Bits column in the Sunday New York Times. Read more »
Quentin Hardy of The New York Times sums up the tech events of June to conclude a readical shift has occurred. Remarkably fast, a multibillion-dollar industry is moving away from personal computers made mostly with Microsoft Windows software and Intel semiconductor chips. The combined revenue from these largely so-called Wintel desktops and laptops last year was about $70 billion at Dell and Hewlett-Packard. But these companies played virtually no part in the June shows from Apple, Microsoft and Google. Read more »
The technology reporters and editors of The New York Times scour the Web for important and peculiar items. Friday’s selection includes the Chrome mobile browser jumping to No. 1 among Apple apps, a revisiting of the Microsoft chief’s initial reaction to the iPhone and an essay on the latest new products from Google. Read more…
Salon Media Group, the owner of the pioneering online community The Well, is stepping up efforts to sell it. In a filing with securities regulators, Salon said it had laid off The Well’s staff and had been talking with people who were interested in purchasing well.com, The Well’s Web address. Read more…
Paul Sakuma/Associated Press Steven P. Jobs introducing the iPhone at the Macworld conference in 2007.Friday is the fifth anniversary of the iPhone, the phone (if you can even really call it that anymore) that changed everything. Love it or hate it, Apple’s touch-screen handset has made an impact on some aspect of your life — whether it’s how you work, communicate with friends, plan your day or read the news. Read more…
Posting about a personal loss online makes people — both the poster and the readers — uncomfortable. No one wants to see morbid thoughts and ruminations about death sandwiched between cheery updates about last night’s party and celebrity chatter. Why does the social Web seem limited to a few emotions? Read more…
Companies that aren’t successful yet in mobile could take some tips from Gilt Groupe. The New York-based start-up, best known for selling designer clothing, expects 40 percent of its revenue on the July 4th holiday to come from its iPhone and iPad apps, says the company’s chief executive. Read more…
Research in Motion announced it was further delaying the introduction of its new line of BlackBerry smartphones until 2013, a setback that has further eroded confidence in the company. The latest delay, which was announced along with a $518 million loss in the company’s first quarter, increased doubts among analysts and investors about RIM’s future Read more…
Google’s new personal assistant service, called Google Now, raises some interesting questions about the line between when tech is helpful and when it makes users uneasy. The service will do things like remind an Android owner that they have a lunch date — but also who it is with, how to get there and when they should leave, based on traffic. Read more…
The technology reporters and editors of The New York Times scour the Web for important and peculiar items. Thursday’s selection includes an Iranian video game based on the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s 1989 call for the death of the author Salman Rushdie, a look at Jack Dorsey of Square and the last person cellphone companies will give location information to. Read more…
StreamTV NetworksThis is precisely what is wrong with the marketing of 3-D TV.The introduction of 3-D TV has been a bumpy one; people just don’t seem to care all that much about it. But development of a glasses-less 3-D technology, and more subtle use of the 3-D effect , may help speed its adoption. Read more…
The issue sparked a spirited conversation among Times readers, who were largely split into two camps: those who thought that monitoring would damage the trust between parents and their children, and those who feel that the Internet raises new challenges that require new tools. Read more…
GoogleOne of Google's data centers.Google is turning its vast computers public, taking on Amazon Web Services and others. The company boasts some big performance capabilities and low prices, but will roll out its services slowly. Read more…
