by Erik Kain on March 5, 2012
Every now and then we hear rumors of the death of the PC. The rise of the tablet, and especially the iPad, makes these rumors far more common. Take this article in the New York Times, titled “As New iPad Debut Nears, Some See Decline Of PC.” To be fair, it’s a reasonably balanced article, [...]
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by Erik Kain on March 5, 2012
Every now and then we hear rumors of the death of the PC. The rise of the tablet, and especially the iPad, makes these rumors far more common. Take this article in the New York Times, titled “As New iPad Debut Nears, Some See Decline Of PC.” To be fair, it’s a reasonably balanced article, [...]
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announced its release of Windows 8 Consumer Preview at World Congress today. Speaking to a crowd in Barcelona, Windows chief Steven Sinofsky called the new operating system a “bold re-imagining of Windows” and said that it was a “generational change” marking the first major overhaul of Windows since Windows 95. It’s certainly not like any other [...]
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I posted earlier that we’d get an HBO GO app on Xbox 360 just in time for Game of Thrones – April 1st, which is, of course, April Fool’s Day. But before we get to that, I have to ask: Who launches a major app and the second season of a popular television show on [...]
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by Erik Kain on February 28, 2012
Now that I have an Xbox 360, this is excellent news: HBO has slowly been bringing HBO Go to a multitude of connected platforms, from Roku boxes to someSamsung connected TVs, and now we finally know when it’ll come to the Xbox 360. Tonight at an HBO event in , company Co-President, Eric Kessler, gave us the [...]
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by Erik Kain on February 24, 2012
Even though didn’t start selling Windows Phone smartphones until November of 2011, it already ranks as the leading seller of ‘s mobile operating system. and are hoping that the emerging partnership will propel both companies into the highly competitive mobile industry. has been noticeably absent in the American market in recent years and is putting [...]
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by Erik Kain on February 22, 2012
The new Windows 8 logo has been surprisingly controversial. My own take on the new logo is here. Basically I said that it’s a pretty disappointing redesign – a washed-out attempt at elegant simplicity. 99designs.com has a contest up for enterprising designers who want to take a crack at the logo themselves. Here’s one I [...]
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It’s not just the Windows UI that’s getting a complete overhaul with Windows 8. has released their redesigned logo for all the world to see. The plain, light-blue logo is reminiscent of Windows 1.0 – a throwback, in some ways, to that classic design. “We wanted the new logo to be both modern and classic [...]
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Writing at Slate, Farhad Manjoo says , which recently clocked in at over $500 a share, is still a bargain: In six months without , has done spectacularly well. Three weeks ago, it announced quarterly revenues of $46 billion and profits if $13 billion, double the same period last quarter. And its stock price has climbed [...]
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Google is only just now wading into the manufacturing business. Up to this point, Google has been a product sold inside other products: a software service for email, mobile operating systems, search and so forth. So why are they opening up a retail store in Dublin? Either Google has quite a few more products up [...]
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E.D. Kain is a blogger and freelance writer. Currently he serves as Editor-in-Chief of The League of Ordinary Gentlemen and writes a policy blog at Forbes. He can be found occasionally composing 140 character cultural analysis on Twitter. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The National Review, The Washington Examiner, and the now-defunct True/Slant.
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