Welcome to Pogue's Pages!
Here you'll find every conceivable shred of information about my columns and books, along with just enough pictures, words, and links to satisfy the next person who asks me, "Do you have a Web site?"
Catch me on CNBC
Tune in to "Power Lunch" on CNBC, every Thursday at about 1:45 pm. There you'll see me almost every week, with my usual goofy take on tech. (The same segment will also become my regular Times video later that day.)
New PBS NOVA Miniseries
I'm hosting a four-part PBS NOVA miniseries to air in February, 2011...about the latest in cutting-edge materials science. Carbon nanowires, spider silk from goats, stab-proof clothing...and that's just the beginning. You can keep up with our shoot at the NOVA site!
|
This week's New York Times column
August 26, 2010
Too bad there’s not a reality TV show called “America’s Most Freaked-Out Tech-Company Meetings,” where you watch classic panicked board meetings. For example, when the Apple employee left an iPhone 4 prototype in a bar. Or when Intel learned that its Pentium chip contained a math error. Or when Microsoft was caught bribing bloggers with $2,500 laptops to promote Windows Vista.
One of the most exciting episodes, though, could have been shot at Amazon the day Apple announced the iPad...more
(Requires a free, one-time registration.)
|
 |
This week's email column
August 26, 2010
Google just loves upsetting the apple cart. It shook up Web searching and advertising. It shook up free, Web-based e-mail services when Gmail offered gigabytes of free storage rather than a few megabytes. It shook up the way companies go public.
The latest development is particularly shakeworthy: Google now lets you make free phone calls from your computer. It isn’t new to fellow geeks who have installed Skype or iChat and use special “handles” like SkiBunny1968 — but it will be to normal people, on regular American and Canadian phone numbers. Free... more
(Requires a free, one-time registration.) |
|
|
This week's video
August 26, 2010
Comparing the newest Kindle to the iPad makes little sense because they are in completely different product categories.
Click here to see older archived videos or here to subscribe to Pogue videos via the iTunes Music Store!
|
Special interest
Dec. 3, 2009
Every week, I throw out some column ideas to my editors, and we work out the schedule for my Times columns for the next couple of weeks. Recently, I suggested a column called something like What I Bought This Year. People seem to be interested in what the consumer-tech columnist would buy for himself and his own family, so it seemed like a slam-dunk... more
|
|
|
|
|
miles on it.