Category Archives: Cellphone

Canada gets Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich

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Costco has the Bell Galaxy Nexus for at low introductory price of $85

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 →

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 →

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 →

Made it through one week without an iPhone 4S

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Despite the hype and 4 million other people who got one, I’m still happy with my iPhone 4

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 →

Apple SIRI Voice Assistant a wish list since 1987

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Will three times be a charm for SIRI released on the iPhone 4S ?

Apple SIRI Voice Assistant

The dream of a computer that responds to human commands has been an Apple dream project since they released the Knowledge Navigator video in 1987. Whether SIRI is up to the task remains to be seen. I’m ready to be a believer but a tad skeptical.

The idea is not Steve Jobs but was promoted John Sculley who replaced Jobs as CEO in 1983.
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Apple joins stampede to the Cloud with OS X Lion

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Apple moves software distribution to the cloud where many companies already are

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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Put The Music First – 8 Tips for a Musicians Website

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#2. Hit them with your best shot which means music

Hit them with your best shot, Pat Benatar

Put the important stuff on Page One of your musicians website.

People want to listen to and watch music – put your best songs and videos right on the front page.

Make sure the music starts within 5 seconds. Check out the Pat Benatar video on Vevo after the break. The music doesn’t start until 1:20 after a 15 second advertisement.  Why are they giving us 60 seconds of crowd shots?

You have about 5 seconds tops to keep the viewer’s attention, unless you are a # 1 star. Then you might have maybe 10 seconds. Most people have moved on to another site.

Make sure the music player works on all browsers including Apple iOS (iPhone, iPad, and iPod).

Host your videos on an Apple compatible site, not YouTube. Apple supports the H.264 video codec.  I’m not saying you shouldn’t be on YouTube because you must be there. YouTube, however, will clutter your website with their advertising messages which is what you want to avoid.
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Changes at NJN Network

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Thanks for checking our site – you were one of the 2.2 million impressions we got last month!

Things have changed since we started NJN Network in 2007 and we’ve changed with them.

We try to be where you are, which is a lot of places on the Internet.

We used to print and re-print 10 stories a day, many of them came from other sources.  You could follow us at this site, through RSS and maybe Facebook.

Today the internet is more efficient at distributing content so we rely on Twitter, Facebook, StumbleUpon, Google and BuzzFeed to spread the news around. 

NJN Network has been on your iPhone and Blackberry since February 2010,  on the iPad since May and Android since September.  

Twitter is the quickest way to get at our content – that’s why we have a Hot Tweets box at the top of the page. It rotates the latest 20 stories.  Continue reading →