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DISH Hopper: What Goes Around Comes AroundSatellite TV operator DISH Network got a lot of attention when it announced its new Hopper DVR with a feature that...by Steve Wildstrom on May 11, 2012 5:26 am -
Back to the Future: Windows RT Browser WarsThis morning, I had the strange feeling that I was back in 1997. With Google cheering them on, Mozilla complained...by Steve Wildstrom on May 10, 2012 7:59 am -
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NVIDIA GeForce Grid: Killing off Game Consoles?
Yesterday, NVIDIA launched VGX and the GeForce Grid, which, among many things, could render future game consoles obsolete. This may sound very far-fetched right now, but as I dig into the details of the capability of the GeForce Grid and map that against consumer future needs, unless future consoles can demonstrably deliver something unique and different, they [...]
What People Really Think About Online Privacy
Grandstanding politicians are always ready to pillory Facebook and other online services as destroyers of privacy. Silicon Valley tries to avoid thinking about igt. But how do ordinary folks really feel about the issue? It’s hard to generalize based on a sample of four not randomly selected individuals. But based on what I heard from [...]
The Challenge of Competing With Apple
One of the more interesting questions I get asked as an industry analyst, that has followed Apple since 1981, is why Apple is so successful? And another question I often get is, why Apple’s competitors can’t make any headway against them? These are honest questions and to those really not familiar with Apple, the companies [...]
Intel Could Use a Dose of Andy Grove
In a presentation to financial analysts on May 10, Intel CEO Paul Otellini said he was not particularly worried about the prospect of Microsoft issuing a version of Windows for ARM processors later this year. “We think [x86 is] a differentiator,” he said. “We have the advantage of the incumbency, the legacy support.” Maybe he’s right. [...]
Tablet Computing in Portrait Mode
Last week I wrote about my two must have iPad accessories. In that list I included the Logitech Ultra-thin Keyboard Cover. Among the many reasons I like this case over similarly good ones like the Zagg Folio or the Adonit is because it allows me to do computing on my iPad in portrait mode. It [...]
DISH Hopper: What Goes Around Comes Around
Satellite TV operator DISH Network got a lot of attention when it announced its new Hopper DVR with a feature that “can automatically skip commercials in primetime TV – ABC, CBS, FOX and NBC in HD. Only on the Hopper. Only from DISH.” A cool feature, but hardly new. When ReplayTV introduced the first DVR [...]
RIM Needs to Stop Embarrassing Itself
I haven’t seen a company embarrass itself as much as RIM has in the last year or so. From failed products to sad attempts at marketing, it seems that RIM doesn’t know when it’s time to take a step back. There’s a lot to be said for the bravery of a fighter that repeatedly gets [...]
Back to the Future: Windows RT Browser Wars
This morning, I had the strange feeling that I was back in 1997. With Google cheering them on, Mozilla complained that Microsoft was unfairly excluding browsers other than Internet Explorer from devices, expected to be mainly tablets, running the forthcoming version of Windows designed for ARM processors. A bit of background: Browsing on Windows 8 [...]
Mobile TV May Make A Comeback
I have been tracking the mobile TV space since the early 2000′s and mostly given up after the last push, using DVB-H failed. I tracked quite a bit of research around mobile TV in North America and we performed our own use case research as well. North America as a market for mobile TV is [...]
The Spectrum Shortage That Isn’t
If you listen to wireless operators, their industry is on the brink of a catastrophe caused by success. “Innovation is at risk today due to the spectrum shortage that we face,” Verizon Wireless President Daniel S. Mead said in a keynote at the CTIA Wireless 2012 show. “There is no doubt there is a looming [...]
HTC One X International: Trading in My iPhone 4S?
HTC announced the HTC One family in Barcelona at Mobile World Congress 2012. The HTC One X was one of the bigger standouts as it indicated the best in breed of Android phones available on the market. Some even said it would threaten the iPhone. Does it live up to the hype? I had the [...]
iPad Magazine Apps–A Rare Failure
Technology Review Editor Jason Pontin has written an insightful article on why magazine apps on the iPad have been a huge disappointment to publishers–and why TR is abandoning its apps in favor of an HTML 5 web site. When the iPad came out two years ago, many in the magazine industry, along with Apple itself, hailed [...]
Why Facebook Might Make A Smartphone
There have been a lot of rumors flying around these days that Facebook could be bringing out a smartphone of their own and that HTC is making it for them. Facebook has denied they would do a handset, but rumors and industry buzz around this continues to be strong and usually where there is smoke, [...]
Verizon, LTE, and the iPhone’s Future
At PCmag.com, Sascha Segan argues that Verizon Wireless may be pushing customers toward Android phones rather than the iPhone because it so badly needs to move customers from its overburdened 3G data network to its new and lightly used LTE network. This explains why Verizon is pushing Apple very hard to include LTE in the [...]
Dear Industry: Focus on Profit Share Not Market Share
The interest in the tech media world around market share is fascinating. Each quarter reports come out, for the quarter only, pointing out different vendor and software platform market share for things like tablets and smartphones. As interesting as it is to look at market share of hardware and software platforms, it is more interesting [...]
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