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2007 truly was the year of the iPhone. Apple’s svelte mobile handset was the subject of an enormous amount of hype, speculation, opinion and criticism during the year, leading up to its US launch, and then all over again for its launch on this side of the Atlantic -
Google Chrome. Google entered the browser business by releasing Google Chrome, thus challenging the dominance of Mozilla (FireFox), Microsoft (IE) and the aspiring Apple (Safari). -
Minecraft is maybe the most iconic game of the decade, boasting millions of players and spawning countless sandbox creation games trying to emulate it. There's a reason Microsoft bought Minecraft developer Mojang for $2.5 billion back in 2014. -
Portable computers are nothing new. Every year, laptops, tablets, even smartphones get more powerful and more capable of handling most users daily computing needs. Still, two intriguing pieces of hardware released in 2015 took the entire hardware of a computer and squeezed it into a device slightly larger than a tube of lipstick, and for a fraction of a fraction of the price. Intel’s Compute Stick and the Asus Chromebit both turn any HDMI enabled screen into a computer. -
Companies have tried for years to get consumers to control and navigate their devices using voice command, but these efforts really took off once Amazon released Alexa. Amazon was smart to introduce their voice assistant into our lives through a small speaker that could announce the day’s weather, help us find a recipe or order more Tide detergent from – you guessed it – Amazon.