Mossberg: Facebook can and should wipe out fake news
Totally false news isn’t a new thing in the United States. In our fourth presidential election, in 1800, two of our most brilliant founders — John Adams and Thomas Jefferson — faced off in a vicious campaign that involved newspaper editors on the...
Mossberg: Running Windows 10 and macOS Sierra together
I’m writing this paragraph in Word for Windows on Windows 10. The process is as smooth as you’d expect on PC hardware built for Windows, with no hesitation or freezing, and all the features are enabled. But I’m not using a Windows PC; I’m using a...
Mossberg: Apple, the king of tech taste and daring, takes a breather
At this week’s annual Apple iPhone intro event, the hall was packed, as usual. As always, the program featured gorgeous photos and videos, impressive charts, a few demos, surprise guests, and dramatic claims of improved product performance and...
Mossberg: The 9.7-inch iPad Pro might be your lightest laptop, thanks to Logitech
When the iPad came out in 2010, I wrote that it might upend the laptop if it could perform enough of the scenarios a user performed on his or her laptop, using its modern, full-screen, touch-centric software. For me, personally, it performed quite...
Mossberg: I just deleted half my iPhone apps — you should too
Over the past few days, I’ve methodically deleted 165 apps from my iPhone, about 54 percent of the 305 apps I had on the phone when I started culling the herd. When I was done, I had significantly decreased the phone’s clutter.
Mossberg: The tyranny of messaging and notifications
Up until just a few years ago, I got around 350 emails a day, which presented me with an exhausting, time-consuming daily task that I grumbled about plenty. Now, because of social media and messaging services, that number has been cut by more than...
Mossberg: HP aims at the Mac with super-slim laptop
For years, Apple’s Macintosh computers, while far from the biggest sellers, have been riding high. They’ve managed to outperform a sinking Windows PC market in most quarters, even if modestly. Mac laptops are potent sellers in the lucrative...
Mossberg: A smart new email app for the iPhone
Once, Apple’s built-in Mail app for iOS was a revelation. It was easy to use, yet rich with features, like simple account setup, in-line photos, fast search, a good junk mail filter, the ability to handle all the major email services, and more....
Mossberg: When gadgets were king
For the past nine years or so, the smartphone has been such an amazing, versatile, powerful digital gadget that the industry's desire to create other devices to complement the personal computer seemed to wane.
