Submissions by technologizer

Of course government invented the Internet. And of course it didn't.

How Google and Facebook turn cool startups into toast.

Clamshell: The greatest computing form factor of all time

I'm sorry, all computers are fundamentally compromised content-creation devices.

Windows 8 speed: It's not about the benchmarks.

Google Graveyard, meet the Microsoft Morgue.

The iPhone, which was supposed to "struggle to break into the mainstream," is 5.

Atari turns 40 today.

Sure, Microsoft's Surface announcement was vaporous. No surprise there.

I attend the U.S. Open, where phones, cameras & other gadgets are banned.

I tried to compare the Retina MacBook Pro to similar PCs, and failed.

I'm sorry, nobody has a clue what smartphone market share will be in 2016.

Apple's Newton is 20 this week. So I decided to review it.

Apple skeptics: You hurt your own case by talking about an Apple "prison."

If you're absolutely positive WebOS is dead -- you're wrong.

Taiwanese rumor site Digitimes: we'll try to do better from now on.

Windows Aero is dead, thank heavens.

Chrome is the web's #1, #2, or #3 browser. (Take your pick.)

Andrew Fluegelman, the man who realized that free could be profitable.

Fact-checking Digitimes, the Apple rumor source that keeps crying "wolf"

Match the leaked Yahoo memos with the setbacks that prompted them.

Everything Allen needed to know about Windows 95, all on one page.

A brief, inaccurate history of the iPhone Nano, 2007-present.

In exile from Apple, Steve Jobs compared himself to Jeffrey Dahmer's mother.

I bought something from a Best Buy vending machine, and it didn't go so well.

Maybe Best Buy needs to be like Costco, where lack of service is a plus.

35 years ago today, Apple unveiled the Apple II in San Francisco.

Dear Facebook: here's how to not screw up Instagram.

Remembering Jack Tramiel, the anti-Steve Jobs.

Polaroid film is dead. Long live Polaroid film.