Native Windows 8 apps remain unpopular with developersBack in January 2012, developers didn't seem to be in love with writing native apps for Windows 8. Are they any more keen today?November 9, 2013 by Matt Baxter-Reynolds in Developer
Here's how your tablet might finally "get" youMy ZDNet colleague James Kendrick wrote about a desire for a tablet that "gets" him. We might be building some of the systems to support that today...November 4, 2013 by Matt Baxter-Reynolds in Tablets
Project Ara and Phonebloks are destined for the modular trashcanModular smartphones seem like a good ideas, but they have a number of significant problems.October 31, 2013 by Matt Baxter-Reynolds in Smartphones
The so-called 'death of the PC'Is the PC dying? Not really. It's more to do with that users now have choice about which tools they use.October 29, 2013 by Matt Baxter-Reynolds in PCs
Post-PC means it's time for enterprise IT to changeThe post-PC era changes everything, including how the enterprise IT department approaches its work...October 25, 2013 by Matt Baxter-Reynolds in Consumerization
Is productivity in the workplace possible with Surface 2 or iPad?The question as to what people use tablets for in business is somewhat fuzzy whether you're in the Microsoft camp or the Apple camp.October 22, 2013 by Matt Baxter-Reynolds in Tablets
Email is the most broken technology that you use everydaySeriously, does anyone actually find email to be usable?October 16, 2013 by Matt Baxter-Reynolds in Mobility
I bought an iPhone 5s, but I returned it the next dayIt's a beautiful device, but it loses out against cheaper Android devices with better usability.October 11, 2013 by Matt Baxter-Reynolds in Smartphones
Here's why we all need to be technology sociologistsPerhaps we would do better at serving normal users by thinking less about the technology and more about the sociology.October 7, 2013 by Matt Baxter-Reynolds in Smartphones
Will Windows Phone ever get any love from developers?The third-place player in the smartphone market may never get the love that those in the first two places do.October 2, 2013 by Matt Baxter-Reynolds in Smartphones