Renee Oricchio


Waiting For iPad 3

I recently did something that will sound really stupid. I bought an iPad literally days before the release of the iPad 2. I have no regrets, however. I'm ...  Read story

Microsoft's New Cloud-Based Software

Looking to streamline your IT infrastructure? Office 365, Microsoft's new cloud-based platform, might be just what you need.  Read story

Google Ate My Homework

This time Google's Gmail wasn't just down. For some it disappeared over the weekend. Google is confirming a small percentage of its users lost not only th...  Read story

Hot Mess Alert: Windows Phone 7

Microsoft's first update for Windows Phone 7 is now available, as of this week. Unfortunately when some users have hit "download"; this is what they got:<...  Read story

Genius Bar To Make Housecalls?

There are a boatload of Apple rumors this week and it's only Wednesday. The one that I want to share with you first: reports that Apple's Genius Bar&...  Read story

Libya's Collateral Damage: Url Shorteners?

Guess what the popular url shortener service, Bit.ly, and Libya have in common? I'll give you a hint, it ends in .ly. Yup, .ly is Libya's domain ending fo...  Read story

Borders: Tone Deaf to Technology

Borders, I loved you! But you blew it fair and square. This week's announcement that the book superstore chain is filing for bankruptcy protection came as...  Read story

Greedy, Craven and Shameless

I'm talking about Apple's new subscription model for its App Store, of course. Effective June 30, Apple will start collecting a 30 percent cut off the top...  Read story

The Next Big Thing: M2M

An announcement from AT&T underscores the rise of machine to machine connectivity online.  Read story

Microkia: The New Mobile Power Couple

I stand by my earlier posting a couple of days ago. This really will go down in history as the...  Read story

HP Just Changed The Game

This just might go down in history as the week the battle lines were drawn in the new OS wars. And who woulda thunk; it's not just Apple iOS vs. Google An...  Read story

Online Employment Rising Dramatically

It rarely comes with benefits, but hey; it pays! Elance, the online clearinghouse that puts employers and freelancers together, Read story

Verizon Prepares For iPhone Datahogs

On the same day it started accepting pre-orders for the iPhone, Verizon Read story

Verizon iPhones: Pre-Orders Start Tomorrow

T-Minus eight days until the long national nightmare is over: AT&T's exclusive chokehold on the iPhone. However, starting tomorrow, Verizon customers ...  Read story

February Freebie: In-Flight Facebook

Heaven help you if you are trying to fly anywhere domestically today, given that half the country is in the grips of a terrible winter storm. If—big...  Read story

Netgear CEO: Don't Sugarcoat It

Wow! I know it's only Monday, but this week's "too much red meat" award goes to Patrick Lo, CEO of Netgear, who ripped into Apple (specifically Steve Jobs...  Read story

5 Things Wrong With Mobile Ads

In order for the mobile app economy to be an economy, instead of a labor of love, mobile ads have got to deliver. So are they? Answer: not really! Read story

Hey Kids, In.tel.inside

Intel has a new director of creative innovation: Will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas. Why not? Polaroid has Lady Gaga as its creative director. I think of th...  Read story

Mozilla: No More Skype Toolbar

Users love its chat feature. It also automatically converts phone numbers from text to clickable links to initiate a VoIP phone call. That's the...  Read story

Reports: Google Launching Groupon Knockoff

Well, what did you think Google would do? It tried to buy G...  Read story

When Not to E-mail Attorney

Answer: when you're using the e-mail account provided by your employer, knucklehead! Especially, if you are e-mailing your attorney about suing that ...  Read story

Tim Cook: No John Sculley

The scary thing about Apple is that although it is the most valuable technology company in the world, its success has almost always appeared to hinge on t...  Read story

Jobs Goes On Medical Leave

Apple has announced it's CEO Steve Jobs is going on medical leave for unspecified reasons. COO Tim Cook, who recently took the stage on Apple's behalf at ...  Read story

Fix Your Profile Picture

Your profile picture! Remember: this is the answer to the following questions. What's the first thing a potential employer or client or business coll...  Read story

Under The Bus: ATT iPhoners

Dear Mr. Jobs, Thanks! Thanks, a lot! Last summer you released the new iPhone 4 and quickly the anecdotal evidence piled up that there was a problem with ...  Read story

Verizon to Announce iPhone Tomorrow

Verizon has a scheduled press event tomorrow that is reportedly the long-awaited announcement that the iPhone cometh. The best leaks in this story, s...  Read story

If CES is So Great...

The Consumer Electronics Show is in full swing in Vegas right now. Confession: I'm not there and I have no shame about it. Granted, it would be fu...  Read story

Why You Need a Tablet

Here's the short answer: because Forrester...  Read story

The SMB Apple Should Watch

It's an eight year old company based in Irvine, California with just over 300 employees. The consumer electronics company has annual sales of ov...  Read story

2011: Tech Innovation Wish List

As surely as the sun will rise in the East and set in the West, we can count on a year of daily announcements of new updates, upgrades and innovations fro...  Read story

Tech Predictions for 2011

Will Windows Phone 7 be a contender, after all? Will Android eclipse the iPhone? Will location based services take off once and for all? Short answer:&nbs...  Read story

Expedia Punishes American Airlines

Meow! The claws are out between American Airlines and Expedia. Not liking what it sees happening to ticketing rival, Orbitz, Expedia has pre-emptively pun...  Read story

WTF: CIA's Wikileaks Task Force

No, I did not rip off this headline from "The Onion". This is your tax dollars at work. The CIA has launched a Wikileaks Task Force; acronym WTF. ...  Read story

Yes Virginia, That's Salvage Santa

I love when the holiday spirit and the entrepreneurial spirit merge. We're having one of those moments in Panama City, Florida right now. It's a story tha...  Read story

How to Keep Company Secrets

Short answer: you can't. Before you start screaming, "but, but, but" at your computer (or smartphone), yes you can do a lot to put your data under lockdow...  Read story

Top 10 LinkedIn Profile Cliches

Resume writers, take note! LinkedIn published a list this week of the top 10 most overused descriptions their subscribers use about themselves. The l...  Read story

Heresy: Ads For eBooks

No! Absolutely not! No, No No! That being said, it's inevitable that advertisements will find their way to eBooks. In fact, it's already starting to happe...  Read story

Divorce: Apple and Costco

Truthfully, the marriage hasn't been working for a long time. But now it's official! Read story

'Twas One Month Before CES

Tech's biggest trade show, the Consumer Electronics Show, is just a month away (January 6 to 9, 2011 in Las Vegas). It's the industry event that lays out ...  Read story

Who's Your Daddy? Samsung!

Samsung is kicking butt with it's Galaxy S Android smartphones. Not even a year ago, Samsung held a whopping 9 percent and some change of the Android smar...  Read story