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Stephen H. Wildstrom

Stephen H. Wildstrom

Stephen H. Wildstrom is writer and editor of BusinessWeek's personal technology column, "Technology & You," a position he assumed in April, 1994. Wildstrom joined BusinessWeek in 1972 as a correspondent in Detroit and moved to Washington, D.C. in 1974 as labor correspondent for McGraw-Hill World News. He was named economic correspondent in 1977, and covered fiscal policy and economic analysis. In 1985, he was named senior news editor of BusinessWeek's Washington bureau. He has received two National Magazine Awards and a McGraw-Hill Achievement Award. Adweek magazine named Wildstrom the U.S. technology industry's No. 1 media influencer in 2002.

Recent Articles by Stephen H. Wildstrom

November 24, 2009

When Less Is Less

The TwitterPeek, a little blue device that looks like a pocket calculator with too many buttons, does nothing but manage your twitter streams. It belongs to an ...

November 10, 2009

Why Apple Leaves Low-End Computers to the Competition

It's no secret that Apple (AAPL) is doing really well at the high end of the personal computer business, but the other day I got some data that cast its recent ...

November 1, 2009

A Big Leap for Android and Motorola

Android, the heralded smartphone operating system Google (GOOG) unveiled 14 months ago, got off to a slow start because the early handsets were mediocre, and most ...

October 28, 2009

Multitouch Moves to the Big Screen: PCs

Tap doesn't look like the future of personal computing the first time you see it. A mindless little game that resembles an abstract version of Whac-A-Mole, it hooks ...

October 28, 2009

Verizon's Motorola Phone Boosts Android

From the start, Google's Android smartphone software has garnered way more attention from hard-core techies than the general public. That's mainly because the range of...

October 28, 2009

iPhone Competitors : IPhone's Latest Challengers

A range of mobile-phone makers, from Motorola to Samsung, from Nokia to Research In Motion, hope to give the iPhone a run for its money

October 15, 2009

RIM's Vastly Improved BlackBerry Storm

Over the past few weeks, I have used about a dozen smartphones. The experience has convinced me that touchscreens will soon be the main way we control phones—and that ...

October 7, 2009

Windows Mobile 6.5: Call It 'Windows Immobile'

The last time Microsoft (MSFT) delivered a major upgrade to its smartphone software, Windows Mobile 6, in early 2007, Apple's (AAPL) iPhone was still five months out ...

September 30, 2009

Smartphones: Garmin's GPS Is Ringing

Adding navigation to a wireless phone makes great sense, and turn-by-turn navigation services have long been available for smartphones and less capable handsets. The ...

September 22, 2009

Windows Upgrades Made Easier

Upgrading a Windows PC is hard. As I noted in a recent column, only a relatively small number of computer owners will be able to upgrade to Windows 7 in a way that ...