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
Everything is The Cloud these days and Microsoft will up the ante in being your Cloud provider with free Windows 8 SkyDrive integration.
Download the Consumer Preview of Windows 8
The desktop, MS Office and Windows 8 Metro apps will allow you to automatically store your important files, photos and videos on your computer and in The Cloud. Any file you want will be available on our Windows Phone, laptop, desktop and wherever you go.
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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
Windows 8 main screen
The computer world is abuzz with Windows 8 preview news. You can get the last beta release today by downloading the developer preview at no cost.
That will give you a two week jump on the crowd in learning about Windows 8 and how it works on your computer. Continue reading
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
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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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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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