Archive for January, 2013
Spectrum: Where It Came From, Where It Goes
In the the beginning, wireless spectrum in the U.S. was free. In 1983, the Federal Communications Commission created the first analog cellular networks by assigning two chunks of airwaves in the 800 MHz band. One chunk was reserved for the …
AMD SurRoundhouse Concept: Future Cure for the CE Industry Woes?
For a run of at least 30 years, the “classic” consumer electronics industry successfully transitioned from one technology to another. TVs are a good example. TVs went from big color tubes to rear projection to flat panels and HD projection …
Why RIM Is Not Dead Yet
I wanted to share some of my thoughts regarding RIM prior to them having their press event next week. I know there are many who have the opinion that RIM has been circling the drain for some time now and …
Smartphones Become the New Hub of Our Digital Lifestyles
In the winter of 2000, Steve Jobs took the stage at MacWorld and laid out what we now consider a very forward thinking idea. He said that the “Mac would become the center of our digital lifestyle.” We did not …
Would I Buy A Phablet?
One of the more unique smartphone designs in the market are ones that sport a 5.3″ to 6.1″ screen and are called Phablets by some in the industry. We call them tweeners as they are a cross between a large …
CES 2013: Plenty of Innovation – You Just Needed to Know Where to Look
I didn’t expect much in the way of OS, phone, or tablet announcements at CES this year, if only because all the key platform drivers stayed home. Apple never attends trade shows, preferring to host its own events. Amazon follows …
Putting Together The Pieces of the Personal Computing Puzzle
As I read other’s thoughts on personal computing, I am sometimes struck by the fact that we tend to view the world the way it was rather than the way it is. Not only are we not good at seeing …
Spectrum: The Shortage Is a Crisis, but Not Serious
The late economist Herb Stein used to say that “if something cannot go on forever, it will stop.”
A profound economic truth lies behind that seeming flip statement. The world is forever on the verge of running out of vital commodities–oil, …
Leaving the iPhone- How Android Stacks Up
About a month ago, I made the decision to stop using my iPhone 4s with the possible outcome of leaving the iPhone for an Android or Windows phone for an extended period of time. I don’t want to use the …
For Now, Marketing is More Important Than Innovation
It seems as though the past year I’ve heard a lot of people with early adopter tendencies, especially the media, complain about the lack of innovation coming from the tech industry. It again up again at CES this year. …
Introducing the Chinese Grey Market Android Tablets
Buckle up because this is going to get interesting. What I am going to elaborate on is perhaps one of the most disturbing and potentially disruptive things that I picked up on at CES. As many …
Why Hardware, and CES, Still Matter
An odd notion that hardware no longer matters has lately taken hold in the world of tech commentary. For example, in a well-argued piece explaining his decision not to attend the Consumer Electronics Show, Buzzfeed’s Matt Buchanan writes:
[S]oftware and services have …
An Homage To The Tablet
Tablet PC shipments are expected to reach more than 240 million units worldwide in 2013, easily exceeding the 207 million notebook PCs that are projected to ship, according to NPD
Amazing.
The only thing greater than the resistance to tablet adoption has …
The ThinkPad X1 Carbon Touch: Windows 8 Is Tough Even on a Great Windows 8 Laptop
I have been using Windows 8 through its several beta and preview versions on equipment designed for earlier editions, and I have been wondering for many months whether my unhappiness with it resulted from shortcomings of the hardware. I’ve now …
Where’s The Windows 8 “Buzz”?
With all the news coming out of CES this week, I couldn’t help but be struck by the lack of “buzz” surrounding Microsoft’s Windows 8 tablets. Microsoft and its partners just introduced a slew of new hardware and software products, …
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