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The April issues of Maximum PC and MacLife are currently on sale at a newsstand near you—assuming there is a newsstand near you. They’re the last print issues of these two venerable computer magazines ...
There wasn’t much time to make changes. Ballmer was emphatic not to redefine what was already done, even though McGregor had changed Windows from its original overlapping windows design to a tiled ...
Everybody knows Mario--Super Mario. And how: an oft-cited 1991 poll found that more American children recognized Nintendo's cheerful mascot than they did Mickey Mouse. Almost two decades later, the ...
Lunar Lander games abound on every platform. Along with Tetris and Pac-Man, the game--in which your mission is to safely maneuver your lunar module onto the moon's surface--is one of the most widely ...
It's not love, war, or baseball. But over the years some memorable things have been said about technology. Some have been memorably eloquent; others are unforgettably shortsighted, wrongheaded, or ...
Do you mean to tell me you never play Microsoft Flight Simulator at your local pub? Art by Erick Ingraham from a December 1984 PC Connection ad. When I got my first job in technology journalism, my ...
So much for quiet Sundays. AT&T announced today that it's agreed to acquire T-Mobile US from Deutsche Telekom, a merger which, if completed, will make it by far the country's biggest wireless phone ...
Quick, what's the most admired technology brand? Maybe you answered Apple. Or Google. Or maybe even Microsoft. I'm reasonably certain, however, that none of the brands you're about to read about ...
From the start, Commodore struggled mightily to position the Amiga in a way that made sense in the 1980s computer market. An Amiga A1000 with 256KB of RAM and one floppy disk went for $1295. Even ...
On April 28th, 2003, moments before I was about to interview Steve Jobs at San Francisco’s Moscone Center, I was jittery. Anticipation? Nerves? Excitement? You bet. All of those visceral emotions were ...
AMERICA ONLINE ANNOUNCES INTERNATIONAL E-MAIL GATEWAY VIENNA, Va., June 3 (1992) /PRNewswire/ — America Online subscribers can now communicate with millions of people throughout the world by using an ...
DALL-E 3 gets most of the credit (or blame?) for this. It hardly seems possible that it's been nearly sixteen years since I pressed publish on my first Technologizer post. Back then, the iPhone had ...