Renee Oricchio is a technology writer and former supervising news producer for CNN Financial News. She has been covering the computer industry since 1987. @oricchio


Wordpress Bloggers To Get Advertising Support

Wordpress.com's parent company, Automattic, has announced a partnership with Federated Media this week that will give Wordpress.com's 24 million blogging ...  Read story

Work/Life: Two Smartphones Or One?

The international wireless association that represents the wireless communications industry is officially recommending to employers to let workers "bring ...  Read story

Spanning The Globe: Blackberry Outage

It took almost two days, but Research in Motion has confirmed what half of it...  Read story

Steve Jobs Dead at 56

Co-founder and former CEO of Apple Steve Jobs, has died at the age of 56. TheRead story

iPhone 4S Launch (and Several More Things)

Steve Jobs wasn't there to understate the moment with his trademark "one more thing." But Apple CEO Tim Cook and company held their own today rolling out ...  Read story

6 Things to Watch For at Today's Apple Launch

Today is a first: Apple's first major launch event in the post-Jobs era. Scheduled for 10 a.m. PST, Apple is hosting what has become an annual event; the ...  Read story

Kindle Fire: Making a Silk Purse

Just about every news outlet in the world is buzzing about the launch of Amazon's new Kindle tablet, called the Fire. The real story is not the Fire, howe...  Read story

Why Kindle Fire Will Be Left in the Cold

If Amazon's new Kindle Fire doesn't make it; it won't be from lack of hype in the press. Actually, I can give you a list of reasons why the Fire leaves me...  Read story

Creep Factor: OnStar Tracking Former Customers

General Motors's subsidiary, OnStar, is now the one getting tracked by some Congressional leaders after a controversial e-mail it sent out to customers ea...  Read story

Is HTC Blatantly Targeting Women?

HTC refuses to admit it's new Android "Rhyme" is a chick phone. But make no mistake; it's a chick phone.  Read story

Another Reason Microsoft, HP, and Dell Are In Trouble

It's not just the so-called "Post-PC" era that is kicking the backsides of Microsoft, HP, and Dell; it's the dramatic shift in the server market too. ...  Read story

Are The Tablet Wars Over?

It's certainly looking that way—and Apple's iPad is the victor.  The latest casuality appears to be Research in Motion's Blackberry Playbook. I...  Read story

The Easiest Way to Launch an E-business

Here's the short answer: buy one!  Read story

HTC Shopping For an Operating System

Really? Is this a strategy that will backfire on the mobile industry?  Read story

Creep Factor: Apple Conducts Residential Search For Missing iPhone

Imagine this: There is a suspicion that you are in possession of stolen property (hypothetically, of course). Police want to come search your house, your ...  Read story

Apple Selling Previous Version of Final Cut Again

And there was much rejoicing! The people have spoken and Apple has...  Read story

An iPhone Prototype Walks Into a Bar...

It sounds like the beginning of a bad joke, but its not. Holy smartphone, it's happened again. On the eve of another iPhone release (iPhone 5 will reporte...  Read story

Yelp Cries Uncle On Deal Services

After a year of trying to get some skin in the daily online deals game, Yelp has decided to Read story

Steve Jobs: Parting Quotes For Today's Entrepreneurs

By now you've likely heard that Steve Jobs has resigned as CEO of Apple an...  Read story

More HP Rumor Mill!

It shouldn't be called "mergers and acquisitions." It's more like "mergers and acquisitions… and rumors… and speculation."  Ever since ...  Read story

HP's New Strategy: All Software

At the moment, that's how it looks! Hewlett Packard has announced it is buying search software company Autonomy for $10.3 billion.  At the same time,...  Read story

Googorola: What's in the Dowry?

Oh my! This makes Microsoft and Nokia's hook-up look like a dropped call.  Read story

Tablet Wars: Thinning the Herd

Here's what I am seeing.  Consumers have spoken. Tablets are of high interest and are in high demand. However, that only applies to the Apple iPad ...  Read story

Groupon's Growing Pains

Two summers ago Groupon had 37 employees. Now it has just under 10,000. There's rapid growth, and then there's Groupon. So, is this a good thing? ...  Read story

Comparing PCs to Cars

Knowing how much all of you enjoy car-computer analogies (not!), let me offer another. When a person buys a Honda Civic, they don't expect it to drive lik...  Read story

Buyer's Remorse Over Windows

I bought a laptop yesterday. I had to. I've been limping by using a little netbook with Windows XP for the past couple of years (I know, I know, it's the ...  Read story

It's Not The Post-PC Era

It's more like the "multiple device" era. It's amazing to me that there are people who can buy into conspiracy theories like questioning President Obama's...  Read story

One Million Downloads: Apple OS X Lion

Apple is breaking records with this week's release of "Lion," the latest, greatest, operating system upgrade for OS X. Downloads hit the one million mark in ...  Read story

Detroit Gets Tech Start-up "Magic"

File this under "why I still love Magic Johnson." Legendary NBA star for the Lakers and—what's more germaine to this posting—Michigan State al...  Read story

Borders Shutting Down Remaining Stores

It's time to start writing epitaphs. Borders is officially dead, announcing this week that it will be shutting down the last of its 399 stores. The saddes...  Read story

Is Microsoft Plotting a Google+ Competitor?

What the heck is Mirosoft's "Tulalip," and what exactly is it going to be capable of?  Read story

Your Next iPhone

What will it be like? That depends on whether you jump for the iPhone 5 expected to come out this fall or the iPhone 6 expected to come out in 2012. ...  Read story

Gloves Off: Facebook vs. Google

If you love watching two tech titans have a catfight, this is your month so far. Facebook and Google just got into the ring to duke it out. Round ...  Read story

Verizon Halting Unlimited Data Plans

Starting July 7, Verizon will no longer offer new customers unlimited data plans. And, oh yeah, you're going to start paying for using those LTE ...  Read story

Conan Disses Final Cut Pro X

Customer feedback is brutal on Apple's latest version of its popular editing software...especially from one Conan O'Brien.  Read story

Are You a Start-up Jerk?

If you are starting up a company and find yourself pitching everything that walks upright these days, Read story

Live From Fantasy Land

"Clueless," "hypocrite," "ridiculous," "stupid," and "living in a fantasy land." If you want to tick off your readers just advocate doing something radica...  Read story

How About American-Made iPhones?

Apple employs about 25,000 Americans from sea to shining sea. That sounds pretty good until you consider that the iPod/iPhone/iPad revolution has created ...  Read story

Dark Clouds: Quickbooks Payroll Outage

This was a bad week for Intuit. But, it was even worse for employees who count on Intuit's Quickbooks payroll services to process their direct deposit pay...  Read story

From Flip Cameras to Grilled Cheese

No, my source for this story is not "The Onion." Jonathan Kaplan, of Flip Camera fame, has a new start-up in the works; a grilled cheese restaurant chain ...  Read story