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Thursday, July 10, 2008

The iPhone and Its Killer App

Yesterday, Walt spoke with Yahoo Tech Ticker’s Aaron Task about the 3G iPhone and its impending launch. Since it’s more of a “handheld computer,” as Walt describes it, its success is naturally tied to the iTunes App Store and the embrace of the software development community. Here’s their conversation:

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No Undiluted Adulation, Just the Pros and Cons

Yesterday, Walt spoke with Aaron Task of Yahoo’s Tech Ticker about the 3G iPhone, its pros and cons, and “Apple Sensitivity.” Here’s their conversation:

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Monday, June 9, 2008

iPhone 3G Interview With Stacey Delo at WWDC

Walt Mossberg talked to MarketWatch’s Stacey Delo about the new iPhone 3G debut in this video, while attending Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco today.

Walt also posted a Mossblog on his first impressions of the updated device here.

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The 3G iPhone: First Impressions

I’ll have a full, detailed review of the new 3G iPhone in a few weeks, but here are some first impressions based on Apple’s announcement today. Biggest pluses: speed, price and third-party programs. Biggest minuses: still locked to one carrier, missing features and wimpy camera.

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Thursday, April 3, 2008

U.S. Should Stop Calling Slow DSL “Broadband”

I recently spoke at a conference on Web video held at the Finnish embassy in Washington, D.C., and sponsored by Beet.TV. In this excerpt, I spoke about several obstacles to the Web’s emergence as a replacement for standard TV, including the very slow bandwidth that is marketed as “broadband” in the United States.

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Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Super-Slim ThinkPad Sneak Peek

Only a month or so after Apple announced its MacBook Air laptop, which it calls the world’s thinnest laptop, Lenovo is about to spring its own super-skinny machine: the ThinkPad X300. Here’s a sneak peek. My full review will appear after I have fully tested this unusual new laptop, which I expect to be of great interest to road warriors.

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Wednesday, January 16, 2008

First Impressions of Apple’s MacBook Air

Although he tells MarketWatch’s Stacey Delo in this video that “he’s professionally not allowed to be wowed,” Walt Mossberg offers his first impressions of a number of new Apple products being unveiled this week at Macworld Conference and Expo in San Francisco, among them the MacBook Air–which, he cautions, he has not had the chance to put through its paces yet for reviewing purposes.

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Wednesday, January 9, 2008

More From the CES Showroom

Walt Mossberg and Katherine Boehret wade further into the exhibit hall of the Consumer Electronics Show. For this installment they check out a multimedia refrigerator, 3-D Web browsing for Internet Explorer and many more gadgets.

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