Category Archives: Apple

The iPhone Revolution is manned by slave labor

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Has Apple Computer become a corporation that lives off the blood, sweat and tears of Chinese slave labor similar to George Orwell’s novel 1984?


In the 1984 Superbowl commercial Apple Computer likened itself to the savior of a mankind enslaved to big government and big corporations.  The Apple Macintosh would smash the dystopian, conformist world.

In the New York Times story How the U.S. Lost Out on iPhone Work, the author’s describe slave labor camps that build Apple iPhone’s where people work 6 days a week, 12 hours a day for $17 a day. Apple saves $15 per iPhone by using Chinese labor.   Continue reading →

Samsung’s Transparent Galaxy Tab will kill iPad

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Transparent and shape-able screens from Samsung will define the next technological advance


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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Minority Report coming to Windows in 2012

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First the mouse and windows in the 1980s, then touch and swipe with iPhone and soon gesture and voice will control your computer

Kinect controlling medicine (photo Microsoft)

Apple won the latest round of the computer interface war but Microsoft is fast on Apple’s heels with Kinect for Windows.  Kinect is a game changing technology.

As visualized in Minority Report, we won’t touch the mouse or screen but merely gesture with our bodies.
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CBC needs a kick in the pants

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Cut the subsidy, fire the old birds at the top, something

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 →

Is NJN Network Blackberry compatible

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Check it out and let us know

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 →

Mobile Flash dropped by Adobe

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HTML5 is the new standard for mobile

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 →

Apple and Android Apps are headed to the computer museum

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44% of 800 million Facebook users go online with a smartphone and incompatible websites are losing customers

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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 →

Microsoft’s vision of the future is almost here

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The shared vision of portable connectivity will be here sooner than later

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 in the end quite a dumb human

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Technology and business smarts are useless when you’re dead

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 →