Marty Cooper’s Billion Dollar Spectrum Contest Idea
It has been almost 40 years since Martin Cooper made the mobile phone call that earned him the title of father of the cell phone. Today he is still active in the industry, looking for ways to make mobile better. …
Open vs. Closed Systems: What the Future Holds
Since the beginning of the personal computing era. there has been a struggle for dominance between open and closed systems. The early open CP/M computers gave way to the relatively closed Apple ][. The closed Mac was beaten by the …
The Curious Gap Between Android Market Share and Usage
There’s been plenty of debate in these pages and their comments about who is winning and who is losing in the battles between Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android. Asymco’s Harace Dediu takes a close look at Thanksgiving weekend data from the …
The BlackBerry Death Spiral
“Notice of Intent to Sole Source iPhone Devices.” That dry headline, from a National Transportation Safety Board post on the Federal Business Opportunities web site, is news about as grim as it can get for Research in Motion. Though the …
Windows 8: Tepid Marketing–>Slow Sales
Kind of sad, isn’t it? This sorry attempt at a festive display of new PCs at a Micro Center store in Rockville, MD, says a lot about the thud with which Windows 8 seems to have landed.
Windows guru Paul Thurrott …
The Autonomy Catastrophe: Going from Bad to Worse at HP
Léo Apotheker’s brief, unhappy tenure at Hewlett-Packard is the gift that keeps taking.
The highlights of his 10-month reign, which ended in September, 2011, included a loss of $30 billion in market capitalization, the shuttering of webOS operations, and turmoil caused …
Of Tablets, Phones, and Apps
This began life as a reply to a comment on Part 4 of John Kirk’s “Why Android Is Winning the Battles, But Google Is Losing the War,” but quickly got out of hand.
John’s post sparked a discussion of Apple’s and …
After Sinofsky Can Microsoft Move Beyond Windows?
The departure of Windows chief Steven Sinofsky, hard on the heels of the release of Windows 8, came as a shock, but not a surprise. But the important question is less what led to the departure of the …
Tech Could Learn from the Election: Big Data Rules
I have wanted to write about the growing importance of big data and analytics for a while, but this is a tech site and I did not want to get it embroiled in the political tempests. But now that the …
In Praise of Old-fashioned PCs
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I’m a big fan of tablets, especially the iPad. Altrhough I find myself spending more and more time with a tablet and less and less with a traditional computer, I can’t imagine getting by without a Windows PC …
Why Does Microsoft Make It So Hard?
Are you planning to use a new Microsoft Surface for business? You might want to think again, at least if you are concerned about legal niceties.
At ZDnet, Windows guru Ed Bott examines the strangely complex legalities of using Microsoft Office …
Why Surface Will Be Good for the iPad–and the Rest of Us
For the past 2 1/2 years, iPad as has ruled the world of tablets. Except for Amazon’s Kindle Fire and the Barnes & Noble NOOK Tablet, both special-purpose devices dedicated to consumption, there has been no competition worth mentioning. But …
A Surface Retail Reality Check
Whatever the buzz that got some people to line upo for the midnight launch of Surface sales at Microsoft Stores last night seems to have dissipated quickly. This afternoon, I stopped by the popup store in Westfield Montgomery Mall in Bethesda, Md. …
Windows 8, Windows RT, and Surface: A Strategy Emerges
Microsoft has begun the tough job of answering three questions vital to its future: Why Windows? Why Windows RT? And why Surface? The arguments given at the Windows 8 launch event in New York on Oct. 25 won’t close the …
The iPad Mini Could Spur an Education Revolution
I have long been a skeptic about the role of personal computing in education, especially for K-12 schools. Yes, the internet has made a wealth of information accessible to students. But the instructional revolution promised by technology optimists seems to …
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