Scrooging It: 12 cheap holiday tech gifts for the miserly skinflint
Looking for great, cheap holiday gifts or ones which can save you serious gelt? Ebenezer Perlow picks his dozen for each day of Christmas.
Irreverent, unapologetically arrogant and uncensored, IT Professional Services industry veteran Jason Perlow muses on a cornucopia of topics on all matters of Information Technology.
Jason Perlow, Sr. Technology Editor at ZDNet, is a technologist with over two decades of experience integrating large heterogeneous multi-vendor computing environments in Fortune 500 companies. Jason is currently a Technology Solution Professional with Microsoft Corp. His expressed views do not necessarily represent those of his employer.
Looking for great, cheap holiday gifts or ones which can save you serious gelt? Ebenezer Perlow picks his dozen for each day of Christmas.
The latest Android tablet from Google and Samsung has a lot to offer, but its plasticky construction and lack of good optimized applications should give you some pause.
On this most American of holidays, I give thanks to the industry that empowers and inspires all of us to be connected, to acquire knowledge, to think and to achieve greatness.
And now, for your reading pleasure, the very worst from the tech world in 2012.
What if we all had the option of voting electronically using a mobile device or personal computer instead of at a poll station?
If Apple switched from the Intel architecture now used in its Macintosh computers to something of its own design, how exactly would they go about it?
Apple is known for using proprietary components in its products that have often drawn ire from the industry at large. But in the case of the new Lightning connector used on the latest generation iPhones and iPads, the company has clearly innovated.
On a day in which many technophiles gleefully await the latest Apple tablet computer to be delivered, millions of Americans are still without power, heating and running water.
Two new mice and a trackpad greatly improve the Windows 8 experience for those looking to upgrade to Microsoft's latest OS.
Yes, it's Halloween season of 2012, and we're here to revisit the technologies that are so frightening, they'll make you evacuate from multiple "interfaces".