Farhad Manjoo
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The smartphone dilemma: Faster but biggerMar 30, 2013 6:29 pm - Smartphones keep getting faster. If you buy a new high-end phone this year, you’ll find it’s noticeably more powerful than last year’s best gadgets. It will let you run ...
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Is Google Fiber too powerful?Mar 24, 2013 6:48 am - In January I traveled to Kansas City, Kan., to talk to people who have been using Google Fiber, the search company's effort to wire a large American city with 1-gigabit ...
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Good riddance, Google Reader, Manjoo saysMar 24, 2013 7:19 am - I’ve made it pretty clear that I don’t like RSS readers. When you subscribe to your favorite sites and read all their articles in a single, text-heavy interface, you’re ...
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What to do with the world’s fastest Internet serviceMar 17, 2013 6:53 am - PALO ALTO, Calif. — One afternoon in January, I went to visit some Google employees who’d offered to show me one of the company’s latest and greatest innovations. This i...
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Why don’t Apple laptops have touch screens?Mar 11, 2013 9:51 am - PALO ALTO, Calif. — Like many kids, my 2-year-old son can run circles around you on an iPad. He learned to unlock the screen before he learned to conjugate verbs, and no...
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Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer’s misstepMar 03, 2013 7:17 am - PALO ALTO, Calif. — It was nearly a decade ago that I stopped going into the office every day. I worked at a competing Web magazine at the time, and my bosses didn’t rea...
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How MIT can honor Aaron SwartzFeb 03, 2013 11:02 pm - PALO ALTO, Calif. — Beginning in the fall of 2010, Aaron Swartz repeatedly logged on to MIT’s campus network and used an automated script to download nearly 5 million ar...
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How Google keeps its workers happyJan 27, 2013 7:21 am - PALO ALTO, Calif. — A few years ago, Google's human resources department noticed a problem: A lot of women were leaving the company. Like the majority of Silicon Valley ...
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Hybrid computers may replace old PCsJan 20, 2013 7:07 am - PALO ALTO, Calif. — In the three years since Apple launched the iPad, a once-crazy idea has grown to become conventional wisdom: The PC is dying. Every few months, marke...
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The genius of Samsung and the phabletJan 20, 2013 7:07 am - PALO ALTO, Calif. — Consider the phablet. Back in 2011, when Samsung first unveiled the Galaxy Note — a 5.3-inch smartphone that was big enough to be a minitablet, hence...