Tag: Opinion
29 articles
Opinion
What lining for this cloud?
(Senior tech-finance columnist) Apple Computers has accustomed its fans and even detractors to a certain pattern: bring to market a well-packaged product that while not delivering leading edge technology on every dimension stretches the current limits of the…
Consumer Tech
September Consumer Tech
… Why have Vizio and other former no name TV makers won your business? Why these relative upstart consumer electronics manufacturers are surviving and thriving against their more famous brands. Irvine, California — Vizio’s office building and U.S.…
Consumer Tech
Life is about to get very interesting for anyone who creates websites.
… Last month, the three big search engines, Google, Bing, and Yahoo!, decided to cooperate on a single markup language that webmasters and SEOs use to enhance their sites in search listings. That language is called schemas –…
Opinion
Playbook by RIM – A Luddite’s Experience
… A huge rug, with a couple of deliberately-sewn imperfections, hangs on the wall of the UN lobby “to remind us that nothing is perfect.” The sleek Playbook by Blackberry might be hung next to that rug. It…
Opinion
Consumer Tech for June
… Consumer rating services Can Wind Up Screwing the Consumer You’re a smart shopper; of course you are. You do your research before you buy. And you trust that when a product is rated “high” or “best buy”…
Opinion
After Further Review: Digital Family Advisor Rethinks Some Of its Product Profiles…
Susan Davis and Jennifer Auspitz The colors were vibrant, the texts clear as a bell, the added features (especially the back-light) were very useful and the battery life was long enough to get through almost all of our…
Opinion
Huge chain stores bad. Local shops good. Yeah, but…
I like to think I’m a smart, well-informed consumer, and that I have a conscience. I watch the news, I read the papers, I see the documentaries. And I’m appalled. I’ve learned that huge, sell-everything-under-the-sun stores are bad.…
Opinion
AIPTEK 3D HD CAMERA/CAMCORDER
… The Aiptek 3D HD Camera/Video Camera Combo is cute. And for those (of us) must-be-the-first-to-have-that-tech-toy it’s a, well, a must-have. The Aiptek is really easy to use and has a nice crisp 2.25″ (6 cm) diagonal color…
Consumer Tech
2011 Consumer Electronics Show Spotlights
Are you smarter than your TV, mobile phone, oven? By Katharine Czechowski & Richard Sherwin Las Vegas, NV Ready or not the big appliance makers, TV makers and computer makers are trying to make their products smarter. In…
Consumer Tech
Consumer Tech for February
The more brands change the more consumers have to do their homework when buying electronics and appliances. By Richard M. Sherwin Lately, during product introductions, Apple polishers, Sony aficionados, Samsung “Sammies”and “gotta” get “big brands” consumers all got…
Consumer Tech
What’s In a Name? Polaroid Defies the Odds in its Rebirth…Again
It seems that Polaroid, once it was closed down and sold for a few cans of film and an old tri-pod, is one of the brands that will never die. The latest incarnation and maybe the best one…