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Why Best Buy Is Struggling: A Personal Tale

Why Best Buy Is Struggling: A Personal Tale

Best Buy, which has been struggling of late, announced today that it was closing 50 big box stores as part of a restructuring. Some commentators viewed this as a sign that the big box retail model has outlived its usefulness, but I think a lot of Best Buy’s problems result from the chain’s flawed approach [...]

Published by on March 29, 2012 1:36 pm
An iPad Firestorm About Nothing

An iPad Firestorm About Nothing

Apple’s newest iPad hit the market three weeks ago and already their have been a number of controversies surrounding the device. As expected, all of the issues fizzled out because there was really nothing there in the first place. The first issue brought up by Consumer Reports was that the iPad was much hotter than [...]

Published by on March 29, 2012 8:59 am
Android is Losing Momentum

Android is Losing Momentum

  I wrote a column earlier this year titled “2012: The Year Google Fixes Android or Loses the War.” In that column I laid out a number of issues facing Android as well as the business reasons why many problems existed. When we think about Android we need to remember that Google is an advertising [...]

Published by on March 29, 2012 8:39 am
Facebook and Employers: Where’s the Beef?

Facebook and Employers: Where’s the Beef?

I think it is very wrong for employers to demand a Facebook password so they can check prospective employees’ private pages. But for all the outrage and posturing that the notion has engendered, is this really happening? That is not so clear. So far I have only been able to find two cases involving named [...]

Published by on March 28, 2012 4:06 pm
5 Million Galaxy Note Shipments Proves One Thing

5 Million Galaxy Note Shipments Proves One Thing

I am actually not surprised at the news that Samsung has shipped (not sold) 5 Million Galaxy Note smart phones. Given that it is doubtful that Samsung will reveal actual sales figures as well as regional breakdowns, my educated guess is that most of these devices were shipped and sold in Korea, as also pointed [...]

Published by on March 28, 2012 8:49 am
Why Microsoft Is Whipping Apple in TV

Why Microsoft Is Whipping Apple in TV

Farhad Manjoo at Slate has a good piece today on how Microsoft is already delivering many of the expected features of the tech world’s favorite unicorn, the Apple television. The combination of the Xbox and the Kinect sensor, together with a rich array of video services available through Xbox Live, provides a voice- and gesture-controlled [...]

Published by on March 28, 2012 6:06 am
How Wi-Fi Can Save Data-Guzzling Mobile Devices

How Wi-Fi Can Save Data-Guzzling Mobile Devices

It didn’t take buyers of the new iPad long to discover an unpleasant reality about their new toys. The iPad, with its fast LTE data connection high resolution display, can devour data faster than wireless carriers want to supply it. It you watch a lot of video, your monthly allocation of 2 to 4 gigabytes [...]

Published by on March 28, 2012 5:00 am
What Apple Needs to do to Stay Ahead with the iPad 4

What Apple Needs to do to Stay Ahead with the iPad 4

Apple once again delivered a high quality experience with the “new” iPad, aka iPad 3. Like phones, Apple has again managed to deliver enough to stay ahead as they did with the iPhone 4s. The new iPad didn’t deliver a knockout blow to Android, but certainly eliminated many gaps that could drive many premium ($499+) [...]

Published by on March 27, 2012 7:16 am
How Apple is Cornering the Market in Mobile Devices

How Apple is Cornering the Market in Mobile Devices

I have been speaking with various vendors of tablets lately and more than once, the topic of Apple “iPodding” them has come up. iPodding basically refers to the fact that although Apple has had the iPod on the market for over 10 years now, they still have over 70% of the MP3 portable digital music [...]

Published by on March 26, 2012 6:55 am
Software Updates: Another Reason iPhone Keeps Winning

Software Updates: Another Reason iPhone Keeps Winning

When Apple introduced the iPhone in 2007 with AT&T as its exclusive partner, it made two revolutionary changes in how mobile phones were sold and managed. First, it was to be sold without a carrier subsidy. Second Apple would control both the initial software load and all updates. The first change didn’t last long. Faced [...]

Published by on March 25, 2012 5:41 am
Microsoft Needs to Get its Apps Together

Microsoft Needs to Get its Apps Together

Last week in my Friday column I outlined a few of the challenges that I think Microsoft has in front of them with Windows 8. I cited lack of Windows momentum in the market along with changing software and app economics that are going to challenge Microsoft in ways they have never had to deal [...]

Published by on March 23, 2012 7:19 am
iPad Nitpickers: Get a Life

iPad Nitpickers: Get a Life

Back when I spent most of my time reviewing products for BusinessWeek, I always felt a little dread when I had to deal with anything from Apple. I knew that the slightest criticism would invoke a storm of protest from devoted fans and I would be deluged with email (later comments) questioning my judgment, honesty, [...]

Published by on March 21, 2012 1:37 pm
NVIDIA Solved the Ultrabook Discrete Graphics Problem with Kepler

NVIDIA Solved the Ultrabook Discrete Graphics Problem with Kepler

When Intel released their first Ultrabook specification, one of the first component implications I thought of were the impact to discrete graphics.  My thought process was simple; based on the Intel specifications for battery life, weight and thickness, designing-in discrete graphics that were additive to Intel’s own graphics would be difficult, but not impossible. By [...]

Published by on March 21, 2012 12:43 pm
Windows 8, Metro, and Desktop: The ISV App Challenge

Windows 8, Metro, and Desktop: The ISV App Challenge

Windows 8, at least in its current Consumer Preview form, presents a confusing picture to folks trying it out on a conventional, non-touch PC. It’s one operating system with two user interfaces–the traditional Desktop and the new tabletized Metro–and you find yourself jumping back and forth between them a lot. But users aren’t the only [...]

Published by on March 21, 2012 7:05 am
Why The iPad Will Change How We Work

Why The iPad Will Change How We Work

What is becoming more clear every day is the way in which tablets are changing paradigms of computing that have existed for decades. The entire way we think about computers, and computing in general, is undergoing significant change. In the days of the desktop and notebook, computing hardware and software was functionally the same and [...]

Published by on March 20, 2012 7:08 am
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