Friday, July 24, 2009
Walt Mossberg Interview on C-SPAN
Walt Mossberg discusses his Personal Technology column for The Wall Street Journal with C-SPAN’s Brian Lamb on Sunday, July 19, 2009.
Walt Mossberg discusses his Personal Technology column for The Wall Street Journal with C-SPAN’s Brian Lamb on Sunday, July 19, 2009.

Walt weighs in on the smartphone wars. Who will dominate this new handheld platform, and who will attract the most users and third-party apps?

Walt gives his first impressions of the new BlackBerry App World. The store has hundreds of apps available at launch, and RIM says it expects around a thousand to be available in its first week. Like Apple’s store, RIM’s offers both free and paid apps that download directly to your device.

Walt gives his first impressions of the free Kindle e-book reader application for the iPhone.
On Fox Business News, Walt shares his take on Steve Jobs’s announcement that he is taking a medical leave from Apple.
On Fox Business News today, Walt discusses how the new BlackBerry Storm phone measures up to the Apple iPhone and the Google G1.
Walt takes a brief look at the newly revised Apple MacBook Pro, the more powerful sibling to the new MacBook he recently reviewed. While it shares some of the makeover given to its little brother, the MacBook Pro has a number of tradeoffs that should give existing MBP owners pause for updating.
Now there’s a cool new way to follow the 2008 presidential election anywhere you go. Today I discovered a rich, data-packed app for the iPhone and iPod Touch that displays updated polling data, both nationally and state-by-state, for the presidential campaign. It’s called Election ’08.
Walt Mossberg is the author and creator of the weekly Personal Technology column in The Wall Street Journal, which has appeared every Thursday since 1991.
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