Tech Flashbacks Category

On Monday, Sony officially announced that the product that revolutionized the music industry will officially be retired. The Sony Walkman tape player will no longer be produced, ending a 30 year run that saw portable music first introduced to the masses, paving the way for devices such as the iPod [...]

Today, the Palm shareholders held their meeting to vote on whether to accept HP’s offer ($5.70 per share, plus HP takes on Palm’s debt). As was expected, Palm’s investors approved the deal and there was said to be general excitement about the deal.

The mobile business is definitely an interesting environment to watch especially every once in a while we’re getting to see conflicts like the Nokia vs Apple or the Apple vs HTC lawsuits. Talking on his personal blog about technology-related lawsuits between giant corporations was Jonathan Schwartz, the former President and [...]

If you’re ‘of a certain age’ then, like me, the very mention of the name BigTrak will conjure a particularly fond trip down memory lane and now, if you would like to relive inputting commands such as right 90, forward 5, fire laser you’ll be pleased to know that BigTrak [...]

Having only yesterday fallen into somewhat of a digression concerning the fate of the HD-DVD format, in which we made references to the long defunct Betamax format, we couldn’t not post concerning the passing of another iconic technology whose days are well and truly over as Polaroid announce that they [...]

In this new category we’ll take a trip down memory lane and look back at some of the toys, gadgets and technologies that served to lay the foundations of the designs we see today. And, as the inaugural entry in this new category we couldn’t help but feature a toy [...]