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" I was an early user of AOL - so early, I didn't even have a number after my user name. For me, email was once vital, both for personal and business uses. "
Walt Mossberg
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" Taken as a whole, consumer technologies have made startling advances, but they still are not as easy to use as they should be. "
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" Apple is all-in on Apple hardware and still wants you to be all-in, too. "
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" I was very proud to be at 'The Wall Street Journal'. I have nothing bad to say about it. I had a great run there. In what turned out to be the final years of my tenure there, 'AllThingsD' occupied me more and more and was much more fun. "
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" Samsung has drastically altered the rule that big screens mean huge phones. Even this smaller of the new Galaxy S models has a larger screen than the biggest iPhone, but it's much narrower and easier to hold and to slip into a pocket. "
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" Microsoft makes numerous apps for both Android and iOS, as do Google, Amazon and Facebook. You can run iTunes and iCloud on Windows and Office on the Mac. "
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" I shifted my career when I was 44 to quit the Washington beats. I had a great Washington beat, a series of them, and I quit to start my tech column, which was a different kind of tech column. "
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" Practically every smartphone, tablet, and laptop is fabricated in a Chinese factory, even if they are designed here. "
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" You have giant Facebook, which wants people to be more engaged, and they also want to grow and trade different things, including content. "
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" What we did with 'AllThingsD', though, was very different. We weren't taking a newspaper and putting it on the web; we were creating a digital native product, and we did it inside of a very old, stuffy newspaper company at the time. "
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" Amazon makes mistakes, including launching a smartphone in 2014 that was a flop and to which I gave a poor review. "
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" Classic cable TV may have hit its peak, but it's still a huge force, and the streaming apps of many cable networks still require you to authenticate that you're a paying cable customer every time you want to use a new such TV app. "
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" There's always a mismatch between small entrepreneurial outfits and large companies, which often don't have the same outlook. "
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Small
Same
" It's called the Samsung Chromebook Plus, and it runs on an ARM processor, the same type of processor that powers the vast majority of smartphones and tablets. It was designed in close cooperation with Google. "
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" It turns out that CVS is one of about 40 merchants in a consortium that formed in 2011 to develop their own mobile-phone-based payment system. The consortium, called the Merchant Customer Exchange, or MCX, is in large part all about eliminating, or at least reducing, the fees banks charge retailers for swiping credit cards. "
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" Despite the never-ending debate on the question of the role of government in America, there's been a strong tradition of protecting our undisputed, important natural treasures or taking on great common engineering challenges. "
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Government
Great
" Who co-founded Google? Sergey Brin, a Russian-born Jew whose family fled anti-semitism in the Soviet Union to settle here and who considers himself a refugee. "
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Settle
Here
" I have on my wall right now a front page of the 'Journal' from January 1991, when I co-wrote a front-page story about Iraq firing missiles at Israel. By October, I was writing about tech products. "
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" In general, while Trump has been a master of Twitter, he has shown an aversion to, and ignorance of, technology itself. "
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" Amazon's 'Twitch' appears to be creating a service that operates like Twitter. "
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" It's no easy task to either make money online as a publisher or to advertise your product in a world where attention is so fleeting and divided. "
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World
" Back in May of 2008, the Kindle was still quite new, and we focused on that. "
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" People think of Apple as a maker of excellent premium hardware. In fact, many reviewers regard Apple devices as the best you can buy. "
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" It was a June day when I began my career as a national journalist. I stepped into the Detroit Bureau of the 'Wall Street Journal' and started on what would be a long, varied, rewarding career. I was 23 years old, and the year was 1970. "
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" What's the third smartphone platform? Is it Windows phone? Is Windows Phone going to finally get off the mat in the developed world? Amazon believes their platform has a chance to become the third. "
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" Apple's advantage is that it designs and builds software together, so if the software isn't excellent, it does the superlative hardware a disservice. "
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Excellent
Together
" There's a blizzard of metrics that social sites and messaging sites put out there. "
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Blizzard
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" Lauren Goode and I have agreed that the next version of the Mac software - all of them are named after places in California - should be named either Bridgeport or Warwick. "
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Next
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California
" Slack users I know, including me, love many things about the service. As the company likes to brag, it's fast, it's transparent, and it's great for brainstorming. "
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