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On Feeds and Speeds
And a lot of folks in this tablet market are rushing in and they’re looking at this as the next PC. The hardware and the software are done by different companies. And they’re talking about speeds and feeds just like they…
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Technology
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65% of Apple's sales came from iOS powered devices
The iPhone and iPad generated $15 billion of revenue last quarter. In addition, iPod touch generated about $2.3 billion, implying that iOS based devices were responsible for sales of $17.3 billion. To put that in…
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What Google can learn from John Sculley: How technology companies fail by placing their strategy burden on technology decisions
So they don’t really offer strategic advantage to the adopter. Some may end up adding slightly more to a cost structure than others, but not in a way that determines strategy. Flash on the other hand is not…
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Is HTML5 a Flash in the pan?
When Apple promoted HTML5 as an alternative to Flash, the value was said to be in being an open standard, and in having better efficiency for device-based execution. The problem is that there are no authoring tools for…
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IBM Survey: The cell phone is no longer a gadget – it’s what IT is going to become
“In all areas of software development, mobile computing is seen as the number-one hottest IT opportunity next year,” said Jim Corgel, an IBM general manager of independent software vendors and developer relations who was…
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Unix's Revenge
With QNX now firmly roadmapped at RIM and Android spreading among vendors like a virus, I wanted to point out that these operating systems share one ancestor: Unix. Technically Linux, which underlies Android, among…
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Why Apple is on top today: the top 10 technology decisions
As Apple overtook Microsoft in market cap and as Steve Jobs reminisced about some recent history, I thought I’d reflect on some of the decisions that brought Apple to the pinnacle of technology companies. The criteria I…
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What Happens When You Upgrade an HTC Hero to Android 2.1?
HTC: TEXT AND PICTURE MESSAGES Text and picture messages will be deleted with this software update. You can back up text and picture messages by forwarding them to an email address. APPLICATIONS Applications will be…
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The Progress of the Platform
The Progress of the Platform. On why there is a ban on intermediate layers of software development on the iPhone OS. But the reason isn’t technical. It’s partly business (Apple doesn’t want another company to control any…
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The Mobile Web vs. the Objective-C Web
At one point in time, J2ME (now Java ME) and WAP were the starting points for a discussion on mobile strategy and the web. Then, for a brief period of time, you talked about HTML/CSS. Now, for a growing majority of…