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OnLive Desktop Launches Super-fast Browsing for the iPad
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Mountain Lion’s Gatekeeper Is Not a Slippery SlopeApple’s announcement of Gatekeeper, an anti-malware component of the new version of OS X, has set off the...by Steve Wildstrom on February 17, 2012 4:55 am -
LightSquared, Spectrum, and the Dilemma of CompetitionLightSquared, the company that wanted to turn satellite communications spectrum into a wholesale land-based wireless...by Steve Wildstrom on February 15, 2012 12:52 pm -
Motorola Droid Razr Maxx Commercial–Best Droid Marketing YetWhen I met with Motorola at CES and they showed me the Droid Maxx I suspected they were on to something. What...by Ben Bajarin on February 15, 2012 8:27 am -
Did Engineering Blind RIM to iPhone’s Assault?BlackBerry 850 Research In Motion board member Roger Martin offered the Globe and Mail a passionate, though rather...by Steve Wildstrom on February 13, 2012 3:00 pm
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Fun & Games: Cross Digital Distribution Takes Movies into a Whole New Realm
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Marketing to Moms – a Language BarrierBefore attending the recent CES Show in Las Vegas – my 12th consecutive visit to this, the annual tech pilgrimage....by Monica Vila on January 26, 2012 2:13 pm -
Amazon & the End of the BookWith the end of the Nook for Barnes & Noble and doom and gloom on expected losses and lowered guidance for...by Gary Schwartz on January 6, 2012 8:56 am -
Interactive TV Trends – How the TV Experience is Changing, Part IIIThis is the third article in a three part series discussing key trends in TV. The first article looked at how...by Anthony Simon on January 5, 2012 7:10 am
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OnLive Desktop Launches Super-fast Browsing for the iPad
One of the most interesting announcements at CES in January, OnLive Desktop, largely got lost in the noise of the annual gadget-fest in the desert. But this brainchild of online games wizard Steve Perlman is moving forward with an enhancement that brings superfast, full desktop browsing to the iPad. OnLive desktop brings a Windows 7 [...]
LightSquared, Spectrum, and the Dilemma of Competition
LightSquared, the company that wanted to turn satellite communications spectrum into a wholesale land-based wireless broadband network has hit the end of the regulatory road. The National Telecommunications & Information Agency is convinced that Lightsquared’s technology cannot avoid interfering with an adjacent band used for GPS signals. And the Federal Communications Commission is about to [...]
Motorola Droid Razr Maxx Commercial–Best Droid Marketing Yet
When I met with Motorola at CES and they showed me the Droid Maxx I suspected they were on to something. What is interesting to me as an analyst about this device is that it is not just another Android device that is thrown into the sea of sameness. Motorola took a great design like [...]
Did Engineering Blind RIM to iPhone’s Assault?
Research In Motion board member Roger Martin offered the Globe and Mail a passionate, though rather odd, defense of of RIM’s actions in the long decline that led up to the departure of co-CEOs Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsille. In the course of defending for ignoring advice he described “go bankrupt and fire our founders [...]
Windows on ARM to Include Desktop Office. But What About Outlook?
While Microsoft has said a lot of Windows 8, it has revealed very little about its almost equally important software partner, Office 15. In in a post on the Building Windows 8 blog today, Windows boss Steve Sinofsky disclosed a vital bit of information about Windows on ARM (WOA), the version that will run on [...]
Apple’s Quiet, Brutal War on Wireless Carriers
Steve Jobs made no secret of his disdain for wireless carriers. In 2005, when Apple was still denying any interest in getting into the phone business, Jobs sneered at the four major U.S. carriers as the “four orifices” through which the wireless business passed. With the launch of the original iPhone, Apple made a concerted, [...]
Apple Schooled Music Execs Then, Here Are The Lessons Online Video Should Learn Now
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Even With a Huge Quarter, Apple is just getting Started
- Apple’s $13 billion quarterly profit is second-biggest in U.S. history. Only topped by Exxon’s $14.8 billion in 2008 – 97.6 billion in cash that AAPL has is higher than the market value of 476 of the companies in the S&P 500 – Apple sold more iPads than HP sold PCs. – HP PC sales [...]
An iOS Laptop is a Compelling Idea
Our friend Harry McCracken wrote in his CNET column yesterday about why he believes the world needs an iOS laptop. James Kendrick of ZNET shared his thoughts on Harry’s article pointing out that it is a good idea but that he doesn’t think it will happen anytime soon. Both Harry and James have formed opinions [...]
The RIM Story: In Praise of Mike and Jim
The departure of Research In Motion co-CEOs Michael Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie was, as amply noted by just about everyone, long overdue. Given the shipwreck that RIM has become, it’s understandable, but more than a little sad, that the coverage has paid so little attention to what Mike, Jim, and RIM accomplished during their glory [...]
The Potential Losers if Ultrabooks Win
(Originally published on Forbes) Ultrabooks were one of the most discussed form factors at this year’s CES 2012. This was due not only to Intel’s CES marketing push, but by all of Intel’s ecosystem demonstrating their prowess by showing their latest and greatest designs. OEMs like Dell, HP, Acer, Asus, Toshiba and Lenovo showed their new designs with different industrial design, color, [...]
Apple’s iBooks Author EULA Restriction is Dumb, Not Evil
Apple created a fair stir around the internet with a provision in the end-user license for its new iBooks Author software that requires that content created using the tool can only be sold through iTunes. ZDNet’s Ed Bott called the move “greedy and evil” while even the normally Apple-friendly John Gruber denounced it as “Apple [...]
How the Apple iTV is Accelerated by Samsung
(originally published at Forbes) Back in September, I wrote an analysis on why Apple should build an HDTV. The premise was that there are huge experiential issues Apple could solve and they could strike a deal with the MSO’s and satellite companies. That was a big premise, but ironically with what Samsung showed at CES, it’s apparent Samsung [...]
Reflections in a Yellow Box: The Inevitable Fall of Kodak
Kodak’s filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy has inspired a swarm of commentators to blame the company’s management for failing to catch the digital wave, leading to a long decline and possible demise. Kodak’s management was indeed uninspired. But even with perfect hindsight, it’s hard to see what even brilliant managers could have done to reverse [...]
Lessons for Tech from the SOPA Fight
It’s too early for opponents of new laws giving the government sweeping new powers to fight internet piracy by cutting off access to web sites to declare victory. A my colleague Peter Lewis points out, these forces are in fact preparing to take the fights to new levels. But the fact is that the once [...]
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