Renee Oricchio


Where Carrier Pigeons Are Faster Than The Internet

By Renee Oricchio |  Sep 23, 2010

So just how long does it take to transfer 300GB of data 120 miles? In a recent stunt to demonstrate just how abysmal broadband speeds are in some rur...  Read story

Nokia Smartphone Chief's Big Android Diss

By Renee Oricchio |  Sep 22, 2010

Meee-ooow! Talk about taking some potshots on the way out the door. Nokia's outgoing smartphone general manager, Anssi Vanjoki, issued a warning to his co...  Read story

Google Docs Editing On The Go

By Renee Oricchio |  Sep 21, 2010

Sometime in the next few weeks, Google will be rolling out mobile editing capabilities for its Docs & Spreadsheets applications. When I say mobile edi...  Read story

How Social Networking Mirrors the Way Of Magazines

By Renee Oricchio |  Sep 20, 2010

We all know this number by heart: Facebook has a staggering 500 million subscribers with no signs of slowing down. But, what if I told you there's another...  Read story

Rumor Mill: A Facebook Phone?

By Renee Oricchio |  Sep 19, 2010

As nutty as it sounds, don't discount it. I remember when Android was a mere "Google phone" rumor. For that matter, I remember when the iPhone was just a ...  Read story

Fingers Crossed For Cell Phone Tax Relief

By Renee Oricchio |  Sep 16, 2010

Have you ever noticed just how much you are paying in cell phone taxes each month? If you haven't waded through the fine print; don't! It will only depres...  Read story

Twitter New And Improved

By Renee Oricchio |  Sep 15, 2010

Twitter has announced it will be rolling out a new and improved look in the coming weeks. If I had to sum it up in just a tweet, I would say "double panes...  Read story

WalMart To Offer Wireless Service Plans

By Renee Oricchio |  Sep 14, 2010

This isn't another one of those prepaid plans. Starting as early as next week, Walmart will be offering a cell phone plan like no other. Though its being ...  Read story

Android to Finish Year In Second - Worldwide

By Renee Oricchio |  Sep 12, 2010

Tech think tank, Gartner, is predicting that Google's Android will finish the year with the second biggest market share of mobile operating systems worldw...  Read story

Apple's New Ping Gets Dinged

By Renee Oricchio |  Sep 5, 2010

Don't blame me this time for blasting Apple. There's a long line of tech writers, bloggers and, most importantly, consumers themselves with nothing but sc...  Read story

EBay Says: PayPal Only Please

By Renee Oricchio |  Sep 3, 2010

Effective July 1st of next year, eBay will no longer allow third party checkout transactions for customers. That means you will only be abl...  Read story

What About That Other Ping?

By Renee Oricchio |  Sep 2, 2010

So, there's Apple's new social network for iTunes called Ping. It was just announced this week and as Steve Jobs himself described it; it's "like Facebook...  Read story

New Android Bing App Only on Verizon

By Renee Oricchio |  Aug 31, 2010

File this story under "who cares". It's the trend that matters. Microsoft and Verizon have announced a partnership to bring Verizon's Android cust...  Read story

Apple Apps Hit a Big Number

By Renee Oricchio |  Aug 30, 2010

And that big number is 250,000; as in 250,000 different apps now available for the iPhone and/or iPad. That's an impressive number. However, even ...  Read story

One More Reason to Ditch Your Landline

By Renee Oricchio |  Aug 26, 2010

Google has a new toy for gmail users effective immediately. It's the aptly called "Call phones". Call phones is buried in the left hand nav bar within G-m...  Read story

Macs for Business Taking Off

By Renee Oricchio |  Aug 24, 2010

I guess it's safe to say that the iPad isn't cannabilizing Mac sales. It's more like this: Mac sales are up, way up and off the chain. In fact, Apple is r...  Read story

Orwellian Watch: Apple's Creepy Patent Application

By Renee Oricchio |  Aug 23, 2010

Apple has applied for a patent on new technology that would enable it to take control remotely and disable mobile devices (think iPhone and iPad...  Read story

Competition for iPad Coming Soon

By Renee Oricchio |  Aug 19, 2010

In fact, there's quite a bit of competition on the way to go up against the iPad - finally! Of course, the real question is will any of them prove to be s...  Read story

Facebook to Announce Its Own Foursquare Knockoff

By Renee Oricchio |  Aug 17, 2010

There's no confirmation on this, of course. But multiple news outlets are quoting multiple sources all tipping off the same thing: Facebook will be making...  Read story

Apple Vs. Microsoft: Get Over It

By Renee Oricchio |  Aug 16, 2010

Microsoft recently  launched a "PC vs. Mac" site . If you're expec...  Read story

Why I Want Bill Gates Back

By Renee Oricchio |  Aug 13, 2010

Let's address the elephant in the room. Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer, needs to go. It just isn't good and hasn't been for a long time. I think it's time t...  Read story

Is the PC Era Coming to an End?

By Renee Oricchio |  Aug 12, 2010

Intel, I hope you enjoyed that record quarterly earnings report announc...  Read story

Now What: Orwellian Tire Sensors

By Renee Oricchio |  Aug 11, 2010

This brings a whole new meaning to the term "idiot light". You know that tire sens...  Read story

Watching BP's Response In Florida

By Renee Oricchio |  Aug 10, 2010

My vacation just became a working vacation. I must share with you how BP is responding to the oil spill in one coastal community in Northwest Florida. I m...  Read story

Computer Preferences: Your Future Recruits

By Renee Oricchio |  Aug 9, 2010

Undoubtedly, a good many of your future employees will be heading off to college (or back to college) in a few weeks. You may want to note what technology...  Read story

Blackberry Torch Not So Hot

By Renee Oricchio |  Aug 4, 2010

Blackberry's parent company, Research In Motion, really needed to hit it out of the park this week with the announcement of its new touchscreen smartphone...  Read story

Is Apple Messing With Us?

By Renee Oricchio |  Aug 2, 2010

I think so! What else can explain a job posting on the Apple corporate site obliquely recruiting a new software engineer to work on a mysterious "new and ...  Read story

Blackberry Tablet Coming This Fall

By Renee Oricchio |  Jul 30, 2010

Blackberry's parent company, Research in Motion, will reportedly launch a tablet to go up against the iPad in November. The storyRead story

Gimme 5: Endangered Gadgets List

By Renee Oricchio |  Jul 30, 2010

Earlier this summer, I endorsed the prediction that we'd see sub $100 eReaders from the likes of Amazon, etc. by the end of the year. Maybe. Welll, you ca...  Read story

Throwing Cold Water On Foursquare

By Renee Oricchio |  Jul 28, 2010

It's not just Foursquare, really, but all of these location based services that seem to be hogging all the press these days. This week, the press is not s...  Read story

Are Flash Drives Replacing Paper?

By Renee Oricchio |  Jul 27, 2010

I thought e-mail was supposed to do that! Or was it .pdf files? Word docs? Then along came Google Docs & Spreadseets. Ah ha! That's it; getting much w...  Read story

Why Windows Phone 7 Is Doomed

By Renee Oricchio |  Jul 26, 2010

Oh Lord, let me count the ways. No surprises here, but it's a huge blow all the same; HP has confirmed to CNBCRead story

Tech Choices: Consumption Versus Creation Devices

By Renee Oricchio |  Jul 23, 2010

Thank you, Mary Jo Foley, for this helpful paradigm shift in how I now see computing devices. We all tend to divide them into their more obvi...  Read story

ToneCheck: An E-mail App That Edits Your Tone

By Renee Oricchio |  Jul 22, 2010

I haven't played with this one enough to tell how well it works. But, the idea is certainly interesting. Read story

6 Reasons You Should Snap Up a .Co Domain Name Today

By Renee Oricchio |  Jul 20, 2010

Okay, tell your IT person to do this TODAY. Go snap up a .co web address for your business. Top level domain names ending in .co are available on a first-...  Read story

Monday Morning QBs React to Apple Presser

By Renee Oricchio |  Jul 19, 2010

Whether you think Apple CEO Steve Jobs hit it over the back fence or tipped it foul at his Friday press conference addressing the iPhone 4's antenna probl...  Read story

A Is for Apple... and Arrogance

By Renee Oricchio |  Jul 16, 2010

Apple's press conference today announcing how it will handle the iPhone 4 antenna came as no great shock to me. Disappointment; yes. But shock; no!Read story

By the Way, Verizon Launches Motorola Droid X Today

By Renee Oricchio |  Jul 15, 2010

In case you're wondering what us tech writers would be writing about this week if not for the iPhone 4 drama. Here's the top of the charts: the new Motoro...  Read story

Apple Announces Press Conference on iPhone 4

By Renee Oricchio |  Jul 15, 2010

Nero, I mean Steve Jobs, is apparantly ready to lay down his fiddle while Rome, I mean Cupertino burns. Apple, last night, announced it will hold a press ...  Read story

iPhone 4 Smack Down by Consumer Reports

By Renee Oricchio |  Jul 13, 2010

I'm sputtering as I write this. Headline #1: Consumer Reports is officially "not recommending" the iPhone 4. Headline #2: Apple "lost" (as in the dog-ate-...  Read story