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More Amazing Amazonian Mathematics

More Amazing Amazonian Mathematics

December 6, 2012 10:15 am
Amazon announced today that “[a]pp downloads in the Appstore have grown more than 500 percent over the previous year.” ~ via Gigaom Of course, we don’t know 500%...

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Why Android Is Winning The Battles But Google Is Losing The War: Part 5

Why Android Is Winning The Battles But Google Is Losing The War: Part 5

November 16, 2012 6:44 am
A Pyrrhic victory (/ˈpɪrɪk/) is a victory with such a devastating cost that it carries the implication that another such victory will ultimately lead to defeat. The phrase...

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Macs Were Already Being Assembled in the USA

Macs Were Already Being Assembled in the USA

News about Apple looking to have more of their Mac line of products assembled in the USA made for interesting headlines today. What is interesting is that some amount of Macs had already been being assembled here in the USA. iFixit, with its tear down of the latest iMac, noted this picture and wording on [...]

Published by on December 6, 2012 2:49 pm
Why The Wheels Are Falling Off Microsoft

Why The Wheels Are Falling Off Microsoft

This week, highly respected web and technolgy analyst, Mary Meeker, released her end of the year 2012 report on internet trends. The slide deck is 88 slides long and is highly recommended. You can view it here. As I reviewed Ms. Meeker’s slides, some thoughts on Microsoft’s current prediciment and future prospects jumped out at [...]

Published by on December 6, 2012 5:08 am
Microsoft’s Strongest Asset is XBOX Not Office

Microsoft’s Strongest Asset is XBOX Not Office

I’m sure if you surveyed many in the industry and asked them what Microsoft’s greatest asset to leverage going forward would be you would get a range of answers. I’m sure people would offer up Windows or Office as the most frequent responses to that question. From the looks of much of Microsoft’s marketing it [...]

Published by on December 5, 2012 8:31 am
Can Big Data Make Us Healthier?

Can Big Data Make Us Healthier?

I spent some time this week at the Mobile Health Summit, an annual Washington event featuring the latest in mobile health-related technologies. The exhibition hall was filled with sensor-based devices that can track blood pressure, body weight, blood glucose, pill-taking behavior, and just about any other facet of human life. There was even a $199 [...]

Published by on December 5, 2012 6:54 am
Marty Cooper’s Billion Dollar Spectrum Contest Idea

Marty Cooper’s Billion Dollar Spectrum Contest Idea

It has been almost 40 years since Martin Cooper made the mobile phone call that earned him the title of father of the cell phone. Today he is still active in the industry, looking for ways to make mobile better. Like many others, he thinks t5hat finding enough spectrum to handle soaring wireless data usage [...]

Published by on December 4, 2012 7:05 pm
Evernote and Sugarsync: Headed in Reverse Windows 8 Gear

Evernote and Sugarsync: Headed in Reverse Windows 8 Gear

Two of the apps that changed the way I work are Evernote and Sugarsync.  Evernote allowed me to go paperless and Sugarsync allowed me to have access to all my data accessible by any device.  Both of the apps have very robust Windows 7, OSX, Android and iOS capability.  Robustness stops, though, at Windows 8, [...]

Published by on December 4, 2012 3:00 am
The 5 Technologies that Changed My Life

The 5 Technologies that Changed My Life

I thought it would be interesting to kick off a series where each of our columnists would share the top 5 technologies that changed and profoundly impacted our lives, along with the reasons why. Technology has shaped and is shaping many different generations in different ways and will continue to do so for long periods [...]

Published by on December 3, 2012 3:48 am
The Opinion Cast (podcast): Market Share, Windows 8, and Profits

The Opinion Cast (podcast): Market Share, Windows 8, and Profits

In this Opinion Cast we discuss a number of important topics related to the industry. Although the year is wrapping up, there is still a lot to discuss and opine about. Here is the topical overview from this weeks Opinion Cast. –The continuing mystery of Android market share vs. usage share. –Microsoft’s Windows 8 woes [...]

Published by on November 30, 2012 12:31 pm
My Notebook and I are Growing Apart

My Notebook and I are Growing Apart

I can’t help but have the feeling as of late that a close friend and I are growing more distant. These feelings are encapsulated with gratitude, sorrow, and also an understanding that it is for the better. That close friend is my notebook. Up until the last year or so my notebook as been my [...]

Published by on November 30, 2012 3:33 am
Why Android’s Market Share Is No Threat To Apple’s iOS Platform

Why Android’s Market Share Is No Threat To Apple’s iOS Platform

iOS Is Winning The Profit Battles Everyone concedes that Apple’s iOS is currently winning the mobile profit battles. However, many pundits still contend that Apple is losing the mobile wars because Apple does not have the most market share. How can this be? In almost every industry in the world it is profits – not [...]

Published by on November 29, 2012 4:58 am
Open vs. Closed Systems: What the Future Holds

Open vs. Closed Systems: What the Future Holds

Since the beginning of the personal computing era. there has been a struggle for dominance between open and closed systems. The early open CP/M computers gave way to the relatively closed Apple ][. The closed Mac was beaten by the open Microsoft/Intel PC. A few years ago, with the rise of mobile platforms, it looked [...]

Published by on November 28, 2012 5:00 am
Dell XPS 12: Windows 8 Ultrabook Re-imagined

Dell XPS 12: Windows 8 Ultrabook Re-imagined

With the advent of Microsoft’s Windows 8, computer makers developed different form factors to take advantage of the new operating system.  Most of these new Windows 8 form factors were shown for the first time at Computex in Taipei and then at the official Windows 8 launch event in New York.  The new PC form [...]

Published by on November 27, 2012 8:31 am
Verizon, Nokia and the Quest for Differentiation

Verizon, Nokia and the Quest for Differentiation

My first portable cellphone was the size of a brick and weighed almost 2 pounds. And it was dumb. All it did was make calls. By the mid 1990’s Verizon started creating what we now call a feature phone and created its own mini OS, which allowed Verizon to create dedicated apps of their own [...]

Published by on November 26, 2012 4:32 am
It’s Going To Be A Very Apple-y Holiday Quarter

It’s Going To Be A Very Apple-y Holiday Quarter

Tightwads, Value Buyers and Spendthrifts Oscar Wilde once said that cynics know the price of everything and the value of nothing. Similarly, tech pundits are often obsessed with price to the detriment of value. Despite all evidence to the contrary, pundits think that price is the number one consideration of consumers. In fact, some pundits [...]

Published by on November 22, 2012 6:29 am
Why Competitors Should Fear the iPad Mini

Why Competitors Should Fear the iPad Mini

We have been conducting tiers of research trying to gauge consumer sentiment around tablets and in particular of late, the iPad Mini. Part of my interest with this research is designed to get deeper insight into the 7″ form factor in terms of perceived value and core uses cases for consumers versus the larger tablet [...]

Published by on November 21, 2012 11:19 am
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