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The world isn’t going mobile. It is mobile.
Internet sites that want to increase traffic need to migrate to HTML5. It’s new and takes some effort but that’s where the market will be.
Look around and everyone is on a smart phone. They are not talking. They’re connecting with Tweeter, Facebook and StumbleUpon and surfing the web. Continue reading
The Dick Tracy wrist watch – computer and video phone - was a dream in the 60s
People like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates made it a reality.
The smartphone is just the beginning of the truly personal computer that connects us together and to the businesses we use.
It won’t matter who builds the devices – Apple, Android or Microsoft. Continue reading
Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
The tributes to Steve Jobs the tech guru are pouring in daily.
Jobs was a petty, immature human being who died prematurely at his own hand, according to a new biography Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson.
“In his last years, Steven Jobs veered from exotic diets to cutting-edge treatments as he fought the cancer that ultimately took his life, according to a new biography to be published on Monday.” New York Times. Continue reading
iPhone 4S
See that picture of an iPhone 4S?
For all you know it could be an iPhone 4 because they look the same.
In reality the iPhone 4S is not a new model, just a minor tweak on last year’s phone.
Despite all the media hype and peer pressure, somehow, I didn’t upgrade my iPhone 4 last week.
Buy one in memory of Steve Jobs, they said.
Right, like Steve Jobs cares if you buy one of his phones now. Continue reading
While most people who saw the launch of the iPhone 4S were underwhelmed, consumers have voted with their credit cards.
400,000 more iPhone 4S were ordered than the iPhone4.
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Amazon.com Kindle Fire
Chris Desponosa – The split browser notion is that Amazon will use its EC2 back end to pre-cache user web browsing, using its fat back-end pipes to grab all the web content at once so the lightweight Fire-based browser has to only download one simple stream from Amazons servers.
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Chart courtesy of The Verge
iPhone 5 invitation
Windows 8 launch screen with active tiles (beta)
Apple OS X Lion only available as download from the Cloud
With the release of OS X or Lion, Apple has stopped shipping software in white boxes with CD ROM media.
Most of us are already using the Cloud whether we know it or not.
Apple software is only available by download from the App Store. To reinforce the point, the latest MAC hardware doesn’t have a CD ROM drive.
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Apple iOS 4.3.3 update
Apple’s embarrassment and potential legal problems over the hidden location data base in each iPhone and iPad came to an end overnight with the 4.3.3 update to the mobile operating system.
It was revealed only 15 days ago on April 20th, 2011 that every iPhone and iPad was not only tracking your physical location but storing the data for retrieval. Continue reading