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• Steve Jobs eventually made me Think Different

  I despised Steve Jobs and Apple for the balance of my career. And yet it is a testament to his life that he was even able to make someone like me Think Differently.

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• The long kiss goodbye for x86 desktop Windows

  By Jason Perlow | February 13, 2012, 9:12am PST

  The transition from traditional Windows desktops to the Post-PC world, the ARM architecture and the Metro user interface is inevitable. But it won’t a be quick one.

• In defense of the Galaxy Note's stylus

  By Jason Perlow | February 6, 2012, 7:59pm PST

  Just because you didn’t like Samsung’s commercial doesn’t make the stylus any less valid.

• Happy Chinese workers spell the end of affordable tech

  By Jason Perlow | February 2, 2012, 12:41pm PST

  Human and worker rights reforms in China would have serious negative consequences for the efficiency and cost of the gadget supply chain.

• Textbook of the Future: The hardware

  By Jason Perlow | February 1, 2012, 12:05pm PST

  If we acknowledge that iPad is not the appropriate hardware solution for teaching students in the 21st century, then what is?

• Textbook of the Future: The challenges

  By Jason Perlow | January 28, 2012, 11:01am PST

  It’s actually cheaper to go to another planet than to give an iPad to every child.

• The Internet and piracy are here to stay

  By Scott Raymond | January 25, 2012, 12:18pm PST

  Will killing media piracy destroy the Internet? Is it even possible to stop piracy?

• Lazaridis and Balsillie: The two RIM hosers that destroyed the BlackBerry empire

  By Jason Perlow | January 23, 2012, 10:21am PST

  The shamed former Co-CEO’s of Research in Motion will be always remembered as the Bob and Doug McKenzie of the smartphone industry rather than the giants they should have been.

• Amazon: "Primed" to disrupt Apple's textbook plans?

  By Jason Perlow | January 21, 2012, 10:13am PST

  Apple may have thrown down the gauntlet for the iPad in education, but don’t count Amazon out.

• On Tablets, Android 4.0 is an Ice Cream Headache

  By Jason Perlow | January 17, 2012, 9:48pm PST

  I’ve been using Google’s latest Android operating system on my Motorola XOOM for almost two weeks, and it’s far from the cookies and cream one might imagine.

• The Last CES: Gadget fatigue forebodes industry consolidation

  By Jason Perlow | January 10, 2012, 8:00pm PST

  I’m going to put a stick in the ground with this prediction: By 2015, the Consumer Electronics Show will be no more.