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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 1964, a young engineering student named Nolan Kay Bushnell encountered Spacewar for the first time at the University of Utah, which he attended. He found himself completely enraptured and could ...

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 ...

They weren't the best thing he ever did, or the one which we'll cherish the most. But with the sad news of the passing of James Garner, it's worth pausing to remember the commercials he did in the ...

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 ...