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A Significant Product Differentiation
Philip Elmer-DeWitt is calling him the man who figures Apple is worth $240 a share. I read his blog post and dove into his theory of ROIC. Something he said stood out to me.
Without significant …
Bloomberg, the Internet, and Trust
We’ve just begun to see the fallout from Bloombgerg LP that, in the word of CEO Dan Doctoroff, “Bloomberg News reporters had access to limited customer relationship management data through their use of the Bloomberg terminal.” In blunter words, Bloomberg …
Tom Wheeler and the FCC: The Challenges Ahead
President Obama announces the nomination of Thomas Wheeler (right)
Thomas Wheeler has been influencing communications policy in Washington for a long time, but always from the sidelines. He ran what was then the National Cable Television Association and then …
Windows vs. Mac In Schools: All the Wrong Reasons
The Maine Department of Education announced earlier this week that it was switching from Apple Macintoshes to Hewlett-Packard Windows PCs as the technology behind the Maine Learning Technology Initiative. Macs had been used exclusively since the program was started by then-Governor …
Startup Highlight: Curious Tackles Informal Learning
The world of online education is buzzing with talks of MOOCs–massive open online courses–that many see as the future of higher education. MOOCs certainly have a place, though I’m not quite sure yet of just what it is. But there …
Google “Plays” With Android Activation Numbers
“…there are now 1.5 million Android devices being activated every day, Google Chairman Eric Schmidt said Tuesday. That’s led to more than 750 million Android phones currently in use.” ~ Erica Ogg, Gigaom
Google changed their methodology to only count user …
Office for Tablets: Delay Could Be Death
The usually very well-informed Mary Jo Foley reports at ZDNet that we won’t see major improvement in Microsoft Office for tablets until next year, spring of 2014 for Windows RT and fall for the long-awaited iOS and Android …
Fox, Aereo, and the End of TV
News Corp. Chief Operating Officer Chase Carey’s threat to pull the Fox network from the airwaves if Aereo wins its legal battle to retransmit over-the-air TV signals without paying for them is probably nothing more than bluster. But the fact …
Facebook Home: The Death of Android
As a core operating system, Android is thriving. As a brand–and a user experience–it is dead. Facebook just killed it.
Android’s brand demise has been coming for a long time. Phone makers have been taking advantage of Android’s open architecture to …
Want To Sell Used Digital Content? Not So Fast
Just two week after the Supreme Court stop a publisher’s attempt to impose tight limits on the ability of purchasers to resell books, a federal judge in New York has reminded us of the limits on our resale rights when …
Uniloc v. Rackspace: A Rare Patent Win in East Texas
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas has a well-earned reputation as a place where non-practicing entities, more colorfully known as patent trolls, use their dubious patents to extort money from companies that actually do things and make stuff. …
Google Keep: Bleeding from Self-inflicted Wounds
I don’t know how much Google is saving by killing off Reader, but it is rapidly becoming clear that it wasn’t worth it.
Most people don’t know what an RSS reader is and Reader never became a popular offering on the …
Understanding Android Activations
There are some questions that are worth spending the time to understand. Part of this lure may be due to the elusive nature of how Google reports Android. They make it sound like the game is over, they have already …
Can We Call Windows RT a Flop Yet?
Windows RT was a bold move by Microsoft to make its mark in the world of ARM-powered tablets. But five months after launch, it is looking more and more like an expensive flop.
The German site Heise Online reports (h/t to …
Why the iPad Needs a File System
Over at Monday Note, the always perceptive Jean-Louis Gassée writes about how the lack of a true user-accessible file system is holding back more intensive use of the iPad as a creation tool. Jean-Louis has been on this kick for …
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