7 New Smartphone Features That Will Help Define Your Future

Posted on 17 March 2014 by Stewart Wolpin

My first (and hopefully not last) piece for CNN International on what smartphone technologies could become our new mobile normal. Read it here.

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Where’s That Everywhere Wi-Fi You Promised?!

Posted on 5 February 2014 by Stewart Wolpin

My latest rant on DVICE.com on the slow development of Passpoint Wi-Fi, which is supposed to give us automatic Wi-Fi connectivity wherever we are. You can read it here.

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How The Beatles Rocked Technology

Posted on 5 February 2014 by Stewart Wolpin

Yes, we all know how The Beatles influenced music, fashion and culture in general and kick-started “The Sixties.”

But in my latest column for the Huffington Post, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the band’s landing in the U.S., I describe the surprising impact The Beatles had on technology. You can read it here.

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I’m now on Huffington Post

Posted on 5 February 2014 by Stewart Wolpin

I am now bloviating weekly on the Huffington Post in the Tech section.

You can find and read all my columns here, but I’ll them in individually from now on.

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My TWICE CES 2014 Coverage

Posted on 15 January 2014 by Stewart Wolpin

T-Mobile Legere 3

For the just ended CES in Las Vegas, I covered the show for the TWICE show daily. Here are the things I reported on:

Huawei Sets Sights On U.S. With Ascend Mate2 Phablet

T-Mobile’s Legere Lets Loose On Rivals

Valeo Intros Remote Parking Technology

MakerBot Brings 3D Printing To The Masses

FCC’s Wheeler Sets Agenda In Shapiro Talk

Emerging Tech Inspiration From Apps, Crowds, ‘Trek’

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Techlicious: Trends for TVs in 2014

Posted on 15 January 2014 by Stewart Wolpin

Samsung 105 21-9 UHD

What’ll be new in TVs in 2014? 4K UHD, curved 4K UHD, 21:9 UHD – in other words, UHD.

Here are more details for this CES piece I wrote for Techlicious:

Trends for TVs in 2014

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10 Best Photo and Video Apps

Posted on 15 January 2014 by Stewart Wolpin

Here’s a round-up of the best (IMHO) photo/video smartphone/tablet apps I wrote for Digital Photo Industry, a trade magazine:

10 Best Photo and Video Apps

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DVICE: Prepare to pay for premium Internet

Posted on 15 January 2014 by Stewart Wolpin

13 11-21 Verizon net neutrality

The D.C. Circuit Court just ruled that Verizon pretty much is free to create basic and premium access for the Internet like they do for cable TV, to throttle competitive sites and keep sites they don’t like from being available to its customers, neutralizing so-called “net neutrality.” Nice, huh?

This is a column I wrote about this courtroom calumny back in November anticipating this decision, and what it means for you and the future of freedom on the Internet.

DVICE: Prepare to pay for premium Internet

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DVICE: The (unnecessary?) smartphone wireless charging war

Posted on 15 January 2014 by Stewart Wolpin

13 10-22 DVICE wireless charging

Why are there so many different, incompatible yet infuriatingly similar smartphone wireless charging schemes? Patent royalty money, of course. Read all about this greedy stupidity in this DVICE column:

DVICE: The (unnecessary?) smartphone wireless charging war

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Laptop: Best Gifts for Less Than $25/$50/$100

Posted on 15 January 2014 by Stewart Wolpin

A trio of gift guides I assembled for the 2013 holiday season for Laptop Magazine:

Best Tech Gifts for Less Than $25

Best Tech Gifts for Less Than $50

Best Tech Gifts for Less Than $100

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