Walt Mosspuppet Reviews Snow Leopard: "I Love This Stupid Goddamn Upgrade"

Walt Mosspuppet's take might just be the only Snow Leopard review you need. He even reveals, exclusively, the next revolutionary version of OS X: Perilous (oops) Hairless Siamese Cat. [YouTube]

Mossberg Recommends Illegal Use of Snow Leopard Install Disc

I was surprised by one line in Walt Mossberg's otherwise predictable review of Mac OS 10.6 Snow Leopard: More »

Three Years Later, Newspapers Start With The "Wii" Jokes

I'll give the WSJ a pass on running their Motion Plus review a week behind, because it's a pretty good one. But a faux-unintentional "Wii" pun, in 2009? Get with the program! (Disclaimer: I giggled, like a child.) [WSJ]

Walt Mosspuppet's Windows 7 Survival Guide: Blow Up Best Buy, or It'll Give You Herpes

Walt Mosspuppet lays out surviving the Windows 7 apocalypse: Blowing up Best Buys will slow the spread, but killing the head Windows 7 is crucial. If you can't join the fight, seek shelter in an Apple Store. Ready? [YouTube]

Walt Mosspuppet: "Gizmodo Makes Me Want to Vomit in My Mouth!"

The latest Mosspuppet video, featuring Muppet Mossberg, includes a not-so-friendly Gizmodo shout-out and more from the sock puppet version of the WSJ's senior tech columnist, Walt Mossberg. [Rant Puppet via Fake Steve, edited-BL]

Walt Mosspuppet Answers Reader Mail: "Call Pogue, He Knows How to Do Useless Sh*t Like This"

Walt Mosspuppet answers reader mail, exactly like you'd expect the only technology journalist in the world to, but super funny and mean. [YouTube via Fake Steve Jobs]

Walt Mosspuppet, the Only Tech Journalist in the World

This is crazy. [Hoggworks via Fake Steve]

WSJ Confirms New iPhone Hardware?

Walt Mossberg of the WSJ is known for getting iPhone hardware weeks ahead of time, so did he unintentionally confirm twice, in his Palm Pre review, that Apple will launch new hardware at WWDC? More »

Two Out of Three Times

I'm still at the D conference. Two out of three years, apparently, I need to get scolded for doing something bad. Sucks.

@JoannaStern You Know You Love It—@waltmossberg

What the...? More »

Walt Mossberg Pans Buggy MobileMe in Review

Mossberg has rolled out an in-depth review of MobileMe backed by a week of testing in today's WSJ, and if you've been following our coverage it won't come as too big of a surprise that he's not a fan. But his problems with the service go well beyond the launch hiccups you've read about. So what's got Mossberg so riled up that he's thrown down his big badhammer on MobileMe? More »

Walt Mossberg Reviews GoGo In-Flight Wi-Fi (Verdict: Fast, But Not Fast Enough)

Walt just tested GoGo, the in-flight Wi-Fi service, on a bunch of laptops and smartphones during a flight from San Francisco to Denver. The service distributes, via Wi-Fi, a high speed cellphone data signal pointed at airplanes, which Mossy rated at around 600kbps down and 250kbps up. This was quick enough for Walt to browse the web, send emails with iPhone rumor attachments, and talk on IM to his ladies, but it couldn't keep up with streaming video on Xtube Hulu. Also, VoIP is blocked, and cell calls aren't possible either. Still, Mossy thought it did well enough for someone who can't stay off the grid for a few hours. GoGo costs $10 for flights under three hours, and $13 for longer ones. It'll begin rolling out in the next few weeks on American Airlines, with Virgin soon to follow. [AllThingsD]

Mossberg Takes Back 3G iPhone in 60 Days Quote

The Walt Mossberg clip that made the rounds this weekend, proclaiming the 3G iPhone a mere 53 days away? He just backpedaled on it, swearing he has no better idea than we do. And if he did, he'd give himself scoop: "If I knew when this date was, why would I announce it in the middle of a sentence at the Finnish embassy, rather than report it in the Wall Street Journal?" Guess that chat with Steve straightened everything out, though is it really something he can take back? [Silicon Alley Insider]

Where Is David Pogue's MacBook Air Review?

Wednesday night around this time, we like to check in with our favorite columnists. Tonight we expected MacBook Air reviews from Walt Mossberg at WSJ, Ed Baig at USA Today, Steven Levy at Newsweek and of course, David Pogue at the venerable New York Times. Only, when I refreshed my browser at 9pm, Pogue's Jan. 24 State of the Art column turned out to cover Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac and MacSpeech Dictate, rather than the far sexier (and more controversial) MacBook Air. UPDATE: Pogue scoops the other A-Team members by reviewing the Macbook Air on the Macworld show floor. His response in the comments. [First MacBook Air Reviews]

Mossberg Keeps On Dreaming of a Phone Revolution

Mossy's column today is a remix of his Wireless Telcos as Soviet ministries joke, told first in a June 2005 column. He complains about phone companies locking handsets to carriers, and making them lame little pocket convenience stores for ringtones, and so on (my words). The timepeg is Apple's new promise of a software development kit for the iPhone, perhaps the device that could best benefit from such an open arrangement. Yes, I am glad he's continuing the salvo against the phone companies. But there is a but. More »

VMWare Fusion Review by Mossberg

Walt Mossberg appears to be scooping again. This time, it's a review of VMWare's Fusion (Available this Monday, August 6th). The software, like Parallels, allows PC programs to run from within OS X. Mossberg compares them, simply:

Parallels has more features than Fusion...But I found Fusion puts less strain on the computer overall.

Jacqui at Ars notes that Parallels isn't taking this competitor lying down. They just released a new beta that supports Mac Expose window swooshing of Windows programs. [VMWare via AllThingsD]

iPhone Adobe Flash Support Coming

Critics have bashed Apple for omitting Adobe Flash support from the iPhone's "real life" Safari browser, and with good reason: a quick spin around the Web on an iPhone reveals sites that don't work, or don't work well without the plug-in. Now, it's rumored to be coming, via a quote from Mossberg himself. The question is, was the original exclusion of Flash a technical decision or a business decision? More »

Opinions Side-By-Side In Our iPhone Review Matrix

If you were too lazy to actually read the four iPhone reviews that came out last night, we've done the hard part and stuck the most salient tidbits into a chart, hoping to see both agreement and dissent among the elders: David Pogue of the New York Times, Walt Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal, Ed Baig of USA Today and Steven Levy of Newsweek. (What happened to Lev Grossman at Time Magazine? He usually gets the Apple stuff early too.) Jump for our painstakingly created review matrix—it's fun to notice what words they all use, and when one totally disagrees with the rest. More »

Steve Jobs Kinda Answers Some iPhone Questions

Mossberg gets Steve Jobs to talk iPhone. Except when he asks about version 2.0. Those questions are forbidden. The rest of the questions are important ones. Like will we see this on other carriers? Why no 3G? Will you include GPS? Will there be lower cost versions? Aaaaand, Jobs dodged those, too. An old lesson, learned again: Mossberg may have the power to command a Steve jobs interview, but he can't make him answer questions. [All Things D]

Mossberg's iPhone Video Review

Mossberg's lost the funky music in the intro, and compared to Pogue's video, he's all business. The interesting bits left out of the text review are here, like, in regards to the keyboard, "I wanted to throw it out the window after 3 days". (Of course, he came around eventually, comparing it in speed to a Treo's keyboard.) More »

Breaking: Mossberg Reviews the iPhone, Says Keyboard A-OK After Five Days

Mossberg and Boehret review the iPhone, 3 minutes after Pogue at the NYTimes. In a nutshell:

Our verdict is that, despite some flaws and feature omissions, the iPhone is, on balance, a beautiful and breakthrough handheld computer. Its software, especially, sets a new bar for the smart-phone industry, and its clever finger-touch interface, which dispenses with a stylus and most buttons, works well, though it sometimes adds steps to common functions.

And more importantly, unlike Pogue, he likes the keyboard: More »

Walt Mossberg Has the iPhone

Ooooohhh. Someone's gonna be in trouble with Steve Jobs. Mossberg has the iPhone as of this morning, and he's already flaunting it in public. An explicit rule between Apple and A-listers with early access is that this kind of showboating is a no-no. More »

All Things D is Done and I'm Still Smiling

D5, Mossberg and Swisher's conference is over, and I am still smiling. 100% news, no bullshit. And it was fun. Did you know that D had a Ben and Jerry's ice cream booth? More »

Video: Jobs Says "Fake Steve" is "Pretty Funny" and Other Semi-Revelations

You like the Steve Jobs? You hate the Steve Jobs? We gave you the textier version yesterday, now here's a clip of his All Things D appearance, in full technicolor moving picture, for you to comment on in your own special way. – Wilson Rothman More »

Jobs v. Gates: The Movie

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Steve and Bill...in Pirates of Silicon Valley

Bill and Steve go on stage in about 30 minutes or so. And before they start pulling each other's hair, and before Walt starts dancing around these two with tough questions, I'd like to take this moment to remind you of Pirates of Silicon Valley, the made-for-TV, unauthorized 1999 "docudrama" of how Steve got rich and cool, and Bill got so rich he doesn't even care how cool he is. (Only $7.49 on Amazon, btw.) More »