Archive for October, 2011
Apple is Still the #1 Smartphone Vendor
There has been quite a bit of interesting media and headlines this last week pointing to data related to Samsung’s latest earnings and smartphone shipments. Many are making the claim that Samsung is now the number one …
Dan Lyon’s Newsweek discussion with Steve Jobs’ Biographer Walter Isaacson
One of the best tech writers I know is Dan Lyons also known for his Fake Steve Jobs column that over the years that comically portrayed Steve Jobs blogging about his views of life and tech. Earlier this week, …
The Pandora Box of Mobile – The Sky’s the Limit
If you were at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco last week, you probably heard Pandora Founder Tim Westergren share that SEVENTY PERCENT of their usage is through mobile venues. Yes. 70%. And having created a super-successful digital space for themselves, Pandora doesn’t see Spotify, iTunes, or any other competition eating their lunch any time soon.
The Slow, Sad Death of webOS
When Hewlett-Packard killed off TouchPad and Pre hardware in August, executives said that the webOS software that powered them would, somehow or other, be kept alive. At the time, I was skeptical if for no other reason than that HP …
Give Your Smartphone Room to Stretch
As convenient and versatile as mobile devices have become, there are still times when that little 4-inch, 7-inch, or even 10-inch screen just isn’t enough. Maybe you want to enjoy your mobile apps and content with friends or colleagues – …
Android Orphans: Visualizing a Sad History of Support
VIA The Understatement – By: Michael Degusta
Has Nokia Raised the Bar Enough?
Yesterday in London at its big conference. Nokia’s CEO Stephen Elop announced its next generation phones, Lumia (Windows Phone 7.5 based) and Asha (S40 based), which we were told means “Hope” in Hindi. Although Asha is an interesting device for …
Why Nokia is Interesting
What if I was to tell you that the global handset war of the future will be between Apple and Nokia? On a global scale this may very well be the case as I am convinced now that, from a …
What It Will Take for Apple to Crack TV
Steve Jobs posthumously set off a new round of speculation about that perennial object of desire, the Apple television, by telling biographer Walter Isaacson: “I’d like to create an integrated television set that is completely easy to use. It would …
An Intimate Chat with Tech Pioneer, Thomas Dolby
This week’s “Fireside Chat” with Kelli Richards was with the Iconic ’80s electronic music and MTV pioneer,Thomas Dolby. Best known for his hit, “She Blinded Me with Science,” Thomas Dolby is much more than a recording artist, he’s also a Producer and the Music Director for TED. In fact, he’s STILL leading the tech revolution with his interactive game, Floating City, which reacts to player contributions, eventually granting access to Thomas’ newest music.
Steve Jobs Solved the Innovator’s Dilemma
VIA Harvard Business Review Blog – By James Allworth
Say it “Ain’t” So: Google Kills the Plus Sign
News comes via Search Engine Land that Google has up and killed the “+” operator in searches. From the beginning of search, or at least from the beginning of Google, putting a plus sign in front of a word in a …
Why Google and Microsoft Hate Siri
As I watched Andy Rubin’s interview at the WSJ D Asia conference I became highly intrigued by the comments he made about Apple’s Siri. Rubin told Walt Mossberg “ I don’t believe your phone should be an assistant…Your phone is …
iPad’s Market Share Will Crater, but You Shouldn’t Care
Research firm Strategy Analystics got some attention with a report that showed Android accounted for 27% of the tablet market in the quarter ended Sept. 30. The report raised a lot of eyebrows.Kevin C. Tofel of GigaOm did some digging …
The Apple User Experience: Integration Is the Key
In a recent post, my colleague Ben Bajarin wrote a post on how the seamlessness of Apple’s iCloud is a bit like Amazon’s WhisperSync in the way it invisibly does its job. I’d like to take a deeper look at …
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