Archive for August, 2011
Google: Set Top Box King?
Largely overlooked in the initial reaction to Google’s proposed $12.5 billion purchase of Motorola Mobility is the deal’s potential impact on the cable set top box business. When Motorola split the company in two, the decidedly un-mobile set top box …
Why Google had to buy Motorola
At the end of the year, when I made my predictions for the New Year, I stated that I believed Google would buy Motorola Mobile. And last week, Ben wrote here in Tech.Pinions about why he thought Google should buy …
6 Ways Apple Has Influenced the Last 30 years of the PC Industry
On Aug 12th, the industry celebrated the birthday of the IBM PC and its impact on our world of information. But we would be remiss if we did not also point out some of the key technologies Apple brought to …
Check Out The New Tech.pinions Recommended Reading Section
We have added a new featured section to the homepage called Recommended Reading. In this section we will link to other opinion pieces that we think are essential reads.
Clicking on the the title of the article will take …
Windows Laptop Makers Can’t Catch Up to the MacBook Air
VIA PC World -By James Cross
A highly recommended read. I completely agree that matching the cost and quality of the Air is going to be the biggest challenge of UltraBook makers.
Celebrating the IBM PC’s 30th Birthday
I joined Creative Strategies the year that the IBM PC was introduced. In those days Business International owned Creative Strategies and IBM was one of their major clients. Business International is a WW global econometric consulting firm and IBM …
The Patent System isn’t Broken We Are
VIA This is My Next – By Nilay Patel
Why I Already Miss Physical Media
VIA Time.com – By Harry McCracken
Tech Icon’s Reflect on PC’s 30th Anniversary
VIA PC Mag – By PC Mag Staff
Android is Finally Ready for the Tablet Market
Over the last few weeks, Android for Tablets (aka Honeycomb) 3.2 started rolling out to tablets like the Asus Transformer and the Motorola Xoom. While the announcement of Android 3.1 was met with great fanfare at Google I/O 2011, …
The 13″ MacBook Air is the Perfect Notebook
I have used a lot of notebooks in my 11 years as an industry analyst of consumer technology products. In fact I have used nearly every type of design, form factor, performance, and screen size imagenable across notebooks and desktops. …
Time for a Smartphone Patent Pool
Most of the creative energy in the smartphone industry seems to be going into lawsuits, with just about everyone claiming that everyone else is violating their patents. In addition to keeping a lot of lawyers in work, the disputes are …
How Important is the Design of the iPhone 5 to its Success?
I continue to watch with amusement the various pictures and speculative drawings for the iPhone 5. And the rumor mills are working over time trying to figure out what the iPhone 5 might look like. In fact, the folks …
Identities May be Collateral Damage in AntiSec Data Dump
A couple thousand people could be at high risk for identity theft as a result of a large dump of documents snatched from law enforcement agency web sites by a group calling itself AntiSec. The Aug. 6 data release, latest …
Why Google Should Buy Motorola
Article Disclaimer: This is all theory and purely speculative. This is simply a thought exercise.
Motorola has been an interesting company to watch over the past 10 years. They have been a driving force in bringing the cellular industry into …
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- How Android Vendors Can Compete With Samsung
- Why Microsoft Can Win the Living Room
- SKAA: Better Than AirPlay and Bluetooth for Premium Wireless Audio?
- Why Google is Not the New Microsoft
- Xbox One and the Future of the Digital Living Room
- The iPhone and the Death of the Mid-Tier Smartphone
- Apple’s Right Not To Pay Taxes
- The Definitive Answer Guide to Which Smartphone You Should Buy
- Microsoft is Missing Apps the Same Way They Missed the Early Internet
- Android’s Market Share Is Literally A Joke
- Can Microsoft Compete in a Post-PC World?
- The Definitive Answer Guide to Which Smartphone You Should Buy
- Our New Look
- Big-Box Retailers are Not Helping PC Sales
- Samsung’s Real Threat to Apple
- Apple In Perspective
- The Soft Improvements in new PCs Could be their Biggest Draw
- Apple Is Playing Chicken With The Mobile Carriers
- Windows vs. Mac In Schools: All the Wrong Reasons