Thursday, October 9, 2008The BlackBerry Strikes Back
A common question facing a lot of business owners and managers these days: BlackBerry or iPhone?
BlackBerry has been the dominant business phone for years, but the iPhone has made a solid push into their territory in recent months with strong efforts to make their notoriously consumer-oriented product more business-friendly.
As a response to this invasion of [...]
Tuesday, September 16, 2008Google Phone to be Introduced Next Week
In Miguel Helft’s tech blog for the New York Times, it was announced today that T-Mobile will be unveiling details of its new, highly anticipated, Google branded mobile phone next week in New York — on September 23, to be precise. The phone will be the first to utilize the Google Android application.
From the article:
The [...]
Thursday, June 19, 20088 Million Downloads
The first day of availability for Mozilla’s Firefox 3 saw more than 8 million downloads of the browser. Guinness is verifying the number. They were hoping for more than 1.6 million. Congratulations!
OTHER THINGS THAT ARE 8 MILLION:
The number of millionaires in the U.S.
The age in years of a bacterium found in ancient ice.
Number of people [...]
Thursday, May 29, 2008The XO-2
The XO is the laptop designed by One Laptop Per Child to be distributed to children around the world to “explore, experiment, and express themselves.” The XO currently sells for $200 and starting this fall, they will be rerunning their G1G1 promotion, where if you spend $400 and buy two, one is sent to you, [...]
Thursday, April 17, 2008Mac “Clone” Generates Controversy
[T]he interest of the Mac world this week swung from 3G iPhone rumor-mongering to South Florida, where a company called Psystar has put up a Web site selling a product called an Open Computer. The product is essentially a white-box Mac with Mac OS X Leopard preinstalled, and a violation of Apple’s licensing agreement for [...]
Friday, April 11, 2008Top 10 Worldwide Tech Trends
Although written for a European audience, we found a recent CNBC Business Report entitled “Top Ten Tech Trends” very much applicable to the United States as well, if not for the whole modern world.
And that’s not just because it’s based in large part on American technology giants like Microsoft, Intel and Google. It’s also because [...]
Wednesday, April 2, 2008Intel Gets Pocket-Sized
According to today’s New York Times, Intel plans to announce tomorrow its plans to bring the world the next stage of the World Wide Web: the “Internet in your pocket.”
At a developer event in China, the company, based in Santa Clara, Calif., will display a range of wireless Internet devices that Intel believes will fill [...]
Monday, March 31, 2008Corporate IT vs. the iPhone
Shortly after the recent news that Apple is revamping its iPhone to make it safer for corporate use comes a story by the Wall Street Journal’s Ben Worthen that sheds some light on why Apple may feel that such a step is necessary.
“Designed with the consumer in mind, the iPhone is less secure than business-oriented [...]
Thursday, March 20, 2008Apple Evolves iPhone for Business Use
As part of his goal to sell 10 million iPhones in 2008, Apple CEO Steve Jobs recently announced a reworking of the popular consumer product to make it compatible with business email programs. This is being done by the introduction of a software development kit that allows users to write additional programs — an essential [...]
Wednesday, January 16, 2008A Laptop without a CD Drive?
As the latest development in their ongoing efforts to dazzle the marketplace by taking popular marketplace trends to all-new highs, Apple’s Steve Jobs unveiled the “world’s thinnest computer” at yesterday’s Macworld Expo in San Francisco.
The trend being capitalized upon is making consumer products that are smaller, thinner, more lightweight and more transportable than any [...]