Once you get used to the few new navigation tricks in Windows 8 Consumer Preview it seems like second nature.
Watch the video and we’ll cover the basics after the story break.
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Unit sales 2012 - (Chart - Aquilium Group)
By Stephen Pate, Aquilium Group – At the new iPad announcement, Apple CEO Tim Cook called this the “Post-PC era.”
In terms of real market size, Apple’s claim of the demise of the PC doesn’t hold up. Continue reading
Illustration Apple Computer
Every time Siri answers a question or iCloud streams another tune, you are clogging up the 3G/4G bandwidth.
3% of smart phone users are the culprits according to Nielsen. 97% of smart phone users used less than 2 GB per month in the first half of 2011. Continue reading
California Attorney General Kamala D. Harris signs accord with major IT companies (photo Government of California)
Aquilium Group – Within hours of President Obama’s announcement of the Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights, the State Attorney General of California, Kamala D. Harris, announced an accord to protect consumers’ privacy. (Related: Internet Privacy Gets White House Attention)
Signing on the accord negotiated with the Federal Department of Justice were Microsoft, Google, Apple, Amazon, RIM and HP. The agreement also includes major mobile service providers and is global in scope.
“Attorney General Harris forged the agreement with six companies whose platforms comprise the majority of the mobile apps market: Amazon, Apple, Google, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft and Research In Motion,” said the press release from Harris’ office. “These platforms have agreed to privacy principles designed to bring the industry in line with a California law requiring mobile apps that collect personal information to have a privacy policy. The majority of mobile apps sold today do not contain a privacy policy.” Continue reading
President Barack Obama (White House photo)
Aquilium Group – The White House will announce today new sweeping regulations and seek Congressional approval of statutory authorities over the online privacy of consumers.
A paper was issued today signaling the President’s intentions entitled Consumer Data Privacy in a Networked World: A Framework for Protecting Privacy and Promoting Innovation in a Global Digital Economy. Continue reading
Blackberry Playbook (image RIM)
Last May, the media was calling Apple’s iPad the unbeatable market leader. In less than a year Apple has lost major market share to Android and RIM.
RIM quietly gained 15% of the tablet market in Canada by dropping the entry-level price to $199 and aggressively selling through its own channel. Top corporate and government accounts could purchase Blackberry Playbooks at Christmas for as little as $99. Continue reading
In 2013 Samsung will upset the tablet market with a transparent and potentially bendable hand held device. A transparent tablet is right out of Minority Report and Tron Legacy and will have a much higher cool factor than the iPad 3, 4 or 5.
Only a few months ago, pundits were predicting no one could unseat Apple’s near total dominance with the iPad. Those days are over for Apple.
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Galaxy Nexus 4.0
I was surprised to see Costco heavily discount the Galaxy Nexus on introduction this week.
For once, Canadians get the phone before the USA. The Los Angeles Times reported yesterday the 4G LTE phone has no release date in the US yet.
This is the first Android 4 smart phone to market.
To put things in perspective the hot iPhone 4S is only a 3.7″ screen with 3G communications.
The Galaxy Nexus has a 4.65″ screen and uses 4G. Sorry Apple, your phone is so 2010 except for Siri.
When you check out the larger screen it’s so obvious why the iPhone has fallen behind the times. It’s tiny and hard to read. Continue reading
When you subsidize an organization, it has no reason to be competitive. That’s the CBC.They are not really trying to keep up with the times.
The CBC Radio 3 Bucky Awards is a great idea to promote Canadian talent. Unfortunately Radio 3 don’t have the time or initiative to make their web page compatible with mobile devices that most of the audience use. Continue reading
A reader advised us that NJN Network on her Blackberry was looking pathetic. She was right.
We made a few changes and Voila it seems to be working correctly now.
On a smartphone, this site fits withing the screen and appears different than the browser view on a computer. Continue reading
Adobe Flash
Adobe “will no longer continue to develop Flash Player in the browser to work with new mobile device configurations,” according to a blog posted by Danny Winokur, general manager of interactive development for Adobe. Those configurations include the chipset, browser, OS version and more, he said. The changes will take place following the upcoming release of Flash Player 11.1 for Android and BlackBerry PlayBook, he added. Continue reading