Mark A. Kellner

KELLNER: BlackBerry lures Everyman

I'm in Week Four of using Apple Inc.'s iPhone 3G, and all's very well so far. But, to borrow from the late Satchell Paige, the folks in Cupertino might not want to look back: Mike Lazaridis might be gaining on them.

August 20, 2008

Note to self: Chandler 1.0 needs tweaks of organizer

There aren't too many things I'm looking for in life, but one of my continuing quests is organization. I keep trying to get organized, and the recent release of version 1.0 of Chandler, "The Note-to-Self Organizer," is becoming part of my quest. I like the idea, but the performance could benefit from some tweaking, in my opinion.

August 18, 2008

Will ‘virtual’ computers shut door on Windows?

I often tell people that my experience with every version of Microsoft Windows - going back to 1.0, which I purchased at the very first Staples store in Cambridge, Mass. - resembles my pre-marriage dating life.

August 11, 2008

KELLNER: Ma Bell’s death knell

Almost since the dawn of time - or at least since the beginnings of the "Phone Company" as a unifying force in society - there has

August 6, 2008

KELLNER: Tourists told to go ‘naked’ to Games to avoid trouble

Visitors to this month's Olympic Games in Beijing may have more than smog to worry about.

August 4, 2008

Master of your own ‘radio’ station

I'm getting tired of radio - even satellite radio, if you must know the truth. Yes, I can find a specific genre of music, but the people in radio keep insisting on playing the songs they want to play when they want to play them.

July 30, 2008

KELLNER: Web buying to become closer to real shopping

The faint stirrings of direct marketing that saw 19th-century railroad clerk Aaron Montgomery Ward sending out circulars advertising watches and other trinkets have grown into Amazon.com, but if you regard the Web site as the ne plus ultra of personalized online commerce, you might want to reconsider. There's much more to come.

July 28, 2008

More than meets the I

Amid the justifiable excitement of the July 11 launch of Apple's iPhone 3G - 1 million units were sold the first weekend, after all - there's a lot more than meets the eye.

July 23, 2008

KELLNER: WordPerfect is still a good purchase for the money

When WordPerfect last made any significant headlines, or so it seems, then U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno had ordered up a bunch of licenses for the Department of Justice. Lawyers, it seems, love WordPerfect.

July 21, 2008

Kindle puts library in palm’s reach

If you ride the Metro to work every day, do I have a device for you: the $359 Kindle, an electronic book reader created and sold by Amazon.com, the dominant online book seller.

July 16, 2008

KELLNER: Tiny printers aid travelers in need of copies on go

DENVER -- I am here ahead of Sen. Barack Obama, but he doesn't have to worry about a boarding pass to fly out of this place. I, however, do.

July 14, 2008

KELLNER: You’ll flip over a new, innovative Acrobat 9

Adobe Systems' Acrobat 9 Professional, recently released, is worth every penny of the $459 list price, especially if you work with documents, with forms or with data. In Washington, I believe, that's just about everyone, including most street vendors.

July 7, 2008

KELLNER: Real-time traffic is in data stream

The idea pf XM NavTraffic is to take all sorts of streams of traffic data and bring the information to the car in time for you to do something about it, using data from a Chicago-based firm that collects traffic data from road sensors, transportation departments, police and emergency services, cameras and airborne reporters.

July 2, 2008

KELLNER: Flip Mino a friendly recording companion

In today's multimedia-hungry world, there's a continuing question - how do you get the video or audio that you need onto a computer in digital format? Professional solutions abound, but these often have hefty price tags and steep learning curves.

June 30, 2008

KELLNER: Disney’s Midas touch

If Walt Disney's name is the gold standard in family entertainment, a lot of gold is on the line Oct. 7 when the iconic company bets that enhanced Blu-Ray DVDs will capture the attention - and dollars - of home entertainment buyers.

June 25, 2008

KELLNER: Ringing up big sales

Apple's iPhone, birthed last summer, is a force to be reckoned with. Combining a mobile phone with a

June 18, 2008

KELLNER: Two new, free-use, browsers

Perhaps the greatest surprise in the announcement Thursday of version 9.5 of the Opera Web browser and the Tuesday launch of Firefox 3 is that neither is a snoozer.

June 16, 2008

KELLNER: Sharing text gets easier

John Donne famously observed around 1624 that "No man is an island, entire of itself." And that was nearly 400 years before anyone began to think of collaborative computing.

June 9, 2008

Yes, you can take it with you

Jonesing for a "Tyra Banks" fix over your lunch break? Feeling compelled to catch an inning of the Nats game between afternoon spreadsheets? Can't live without watching Derek McGinty on that business trip?

June 4, 2008

HP’s laser printer a deal

The concept of inexpensive color laser printing isn't totally new - prices have been declining for a few years now, making laser printers accessible to more and different kinds of users. What Hewlett-Packard has done with the HP Color LaserJet CM1312nfi MFP, however, is make an inexpensive color laser that can do a whole lot more.

June 2, 2008