Monthly Archives: June 2008

With gadgets, early adopters now wary adopters

by Kelly Jane Torrance
Washington Times
Do you pride yourself on being an early adopter of new technology? Perhaps you were envied as the first on your block to have the stylish Apple iPhone last year - only to find that those who waited a mere two months got theirs for $200 less. Maybe you bought an […]

Robbie Bach on Microsoft Surface: “We don’t want to be in the furniture business”

There’s always an element of risk and uncertainty when stepping outside of the status quo. So it’s no surprise that Robbie Bach, president of Microsoft’s Entertainment and Devices division (think: Xbox, Zune) and accused drunk thought more than once about killing off Microsoft’s Surface. “I thought about killing it every year it was in development,” […]