Rumors of a possible 7 Inch iPad have been circulating for a while now and comments by Steve Jobs at the last earnings call probably should have ended them for good. This has not been the case and there are new rumors circulating because of the competition, naming the Galaxy Tab. Sales numbers are starting [...]
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Monday, November 29, 2010
Windows Phone 7 At Big Savings
We had previously reported on Black Friday Sales on Windows Phone 7 where there were offers of buy one get one free at AT&T and T-Mobile. This was quite a good deal, though it did cause concerns about deep discounting on the phone. Today, we are reporting a far better deal on the Windows Phone [...]
Sunday, November 28, 2010
Competition For Facebook With Diaspora?
Information regarding the startup Diaspora has been in the news for a while now and really started during the times where Facebook was causing privacy issues and the ability to lock down your settings to stop these kind of problems. During that time, Diaspora has received cash to continue the work to create another Social [...]
Saturday, November 27, 2010
Blackberry Playbook Projections
RIM has been putting out news releases and getting headlines for the past few weeks as they talk more about the coming Blackberry Playbook. There have been several events where they have demonstrated the new 7 inch tablet and each time they do, it results in more people talking about the coming device. The marketing [...]
Friday, November 26, 2010
Apple Black Friday Deals
Apple has now made their Black Friday deals available and the Apple stores will have traffic as a result of this. If the predicted increase in holiday shopping happens as predicted, then these items on sale will do well. As an example, the Apple iTV has already sold out according to Apple Insider at online [...]
Thursday, November 25, 2010
Facebook And Message Unification
Things have quieted down since the announcement of Facebook mail and we are not hearing all the news as when it was announced. It does appear to be rolling out much slower than expected and that is a good thing. Facebook needs to make sure that after you logon to Facebook, that things are secure [...]
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Windows Phone 7 Tied To MarketPlace For Success
With the release of the Windows Phone 7, there have been various reports regarding the phone and the capabilities of the phone. Some good and some bad and with any product that you provide, services are very important. In the case of the Windows Phone 7, the Microsoft Phone MarketPlace will play a pivotal role [...]
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Apple IOS 4.2 Released For iPhone And iPad
A few weeks back, the latest version of the iPhone IOS, 4.2, was set to be released and was in the finally testing phases for that release. That assumed that no issues or problems were discovered during the finally testing, which apparently was not the case. It has been delayed a few weeks to get [...]
Monday, November 22, 2010
New Windows 7 Tablet from LG
The new LG E-Note H1000B Windows 7 tablet was launched this weekend in South Korea. The E-Note features a 10.1 inch touchscreen and runs on an Intel Atom Z530 1.6GHz processor. The company opted for the Starter edition of Windows 7Â as the OS for its first entry into the tablet market. The E-Note H1000B [...]
Sunday, November 21, 2010
Silence From Microsoft On Windows Phone 7 Sales
The Microsoft Windows Phone 7 has been on sale for close to two weeks and other than first days sales of 40,000 units, we have not heard any other information about the success of the phone. Steve Balmer keeps saying it is off to a great start. Without providing number to back up those claims, [...]
Saturday, November 20, 2010
Cox Wireless Service – Cable Company Competing in Wireless Space
Cox Cable has been a mid level player in the cable business and has now been reportedly going into the wireless business. With all these reports, we decided to take a look at what they are doing in expanding into the area of wireless providers. They had a Press Release today for their announcement launch, [...]
Friday, November 19, 2010
Is Web TV Dead For Now?
There has been a lot of talk about Web TV over the past few months from both Apple and Google trying to interest the public in their products. There have been hardware companies, such as Logitech and Sony providing a product for Google TV. All of this lays out a great foundation for getting an [...]
Thursday, November 18, 2010
Internet Trends From Web 2.0 Summit
Mary Meeker, Morgan Stanley Analyst, Speaks at Web 2.0 Summit There were many different speakers at Web 2.0 Summit this week and there is a lot going on in the world for trends of where we have been and especially where we are going. Mary is a well respected speaker who has valuable information to [...]
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Beatles & iTunes – Together At Last
Abbey Road, Yellow Submarine, Help!, Finally Available On iTunes They have finally made it together after so many years of waiting. We can hope that this rolls out to all the other music sites in the coming months. Many have been waiting for years to be able to get selected Beatles songs without having to [...]
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Windows Phone 7 – Things Stacking Up Against It
Microsoft’s release of Windows Phone 7 was proceeded by a significant advertising campaign which is continuing. Some have reported the cost to be $500 million, which makes it quite a big push to get their mobile phones out in front of everyone and generate the expected excitement. In a previous report, on whether it will [...]
Monday, November 15, 2010
YouTube Records Help Reveal Japanese Video Leaker
A Japanese Coast Guard officer confessed on Wednesday to posting videos of a controversial incident involving a Chinese fishing boat colliding with Japanese Coast Guard vessels. He came forward a day after Japanese prosecutors confiscated records from YouTube in an effort to identify the poster. The incident took place in Senkaku islands, which both Japan [...]
Sunday, November 14, 2010
Google Instant Preview Released, Are More Changes Coming?
Google released its “Instant Previews†feature on Tuesday this week in its search engine results, which provides a snapshot of select web pages in the results by clicking a preview icon. This gives searchers a glimpse of a web page without having to click away to go to the page. Instant Previews is designed to [...]
Saturday, November 13, 2010
Facebook Providing Email – Rumor Mill
Speculation has been mounting for months that Facebook wants to be bigger than Google and the activities to achieve that. While this may be a king of the hill mindset, there is no denying the growth which Facebook has achieved. It is somewhat of a closed environment where you have to have a log on [...]
Friday, November 12, 2010
Oracle Challenging Open Source – Apache vs. Oracle
Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems and when that occurred, a number of people were concerned about the Open Source work which Sun had done and invested a lot of time and resources in. Recent events have proven the concerns were justified. The Oracle and OpenOffice divorce was well publicized and it appears that LibreOffice will pass [...]
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Blackberry Playbook From RIM – Teasing Us With Price
RIM is making announcements this week regarding the pricing for the Blackberry Playbook. The anticipated 7 inch model, according to RIM, which is planned for early, 2011 will be very popular and have sales growth to bring the company profits for the 1st quarter. Based on a Bloomberg News story, the Playbook will sell for [...]
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Mobile Bandwidth Growth
We have seen a steady growth in the sales of smartphones and tablets this year and along with that comes consumption of information. It seems that this growth is headed straight up and shows no signs of slowing down. A recent article, from gigaOM, indicates we are using almost an exabyte of data traffic in [...]
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Google TV – Access Being Blocked
Google TV has launched an amazing idea to combine normal subscription based TV with the Internet. The idea is timely as this is where things are headed and the idea of totally on-demand television is something many have wished for. This concept is like a cafeteria, where you go and select what you want to [...]
Monday, November 8, 2010
Samsung Galaxy Tab, Toshiba Folio Quickly Sell Out at Thailand’s ComTech 2010
Distributors and retailers selling the two hottest tablets available in Thailand, the Samsung Galaxy Tab, and the Toshiba AS100 Folio tablet, quickly sold all units on hand during the Commart ComTech 2010 trade show in Bangkok this week. The Galaxy Tab arrived in Thailand on the first of November on a pre-order basis for 22,900 [...]
Saturday, November 6, 2010
Location Based Services
Location based services have been steadily growing and a recent report indicates that 7% of all mobile phone users have used the services via a browser. The Pew Internet report presents the results of surveys from August 9th to September 13th from a population of 3,001 adults. All of the participants were at least 18 [...]
Friday, November 5, 2010
Chinese Manufacturers Cranking Out Android Tablets
Chinese manufacturers see the growing opportunity in tablet computers and are mass producing them in all shapes, sizes and colors, most equipped with the Android operating system. This was evident in a recent trip by “Mee” to see what is currently happening with tablets. “Mee” is our reporter in the Asian region. On her recent [...]
Thursday, November 4, 2010
iPad Popularity
The iPad is still king of the hill in terms of tablet devices, controlling the market with a market share in the mid 90′s. No one has come close to cutting into that share and with the announced tablets for the holidays, it does not appear anyone will be impacting them. As a result of [...]
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Android OS Continues to Grow
Android equipped phones have continued to grow based on a ComputerWorld Report yesterday. It does appear the threat to all other providers, in particular Apple, is one where they may be fighting a losing battle against. Even the recent lawsuit by Microsoft against Motorola, which is aimed at the Android OS may not be enough [...]
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Multi-Carrier SIM Card In An iPhone?
There were rumors floating around last week about Apple and SIM-card manufacturer Gemalto, regarding the possibility of creating a SIM card which could allow the iPhone user to change carriers without having to set foot in the carrier’s store. This is from GigaOM and is very interesting to hear. All of this is supposedly happening [...]
Monday, November 1, 2010
The Firesheep Scare
Firesheep made headlines last week after it launched for its ability to allow anyone to hijack and gain access to password protected website accounts over shared wireless networks, such as those used at Internet cafes. Firesheep is a free Firefox Add-on that reads cookies being sent over an unsecured wireless network. These cookies are typically [...]
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