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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by Erik Kain on March 1, 2012
James Paczkowski, writing at All Things D, says the Apple rumor mill has gone too far in predicting an iPad mini: The second report, also from Digitimes, is far less credible and resurfaces long-running rumors that Apple is gearing up to produce a “mini” iPad, a 7.85-inch device to compete with the Kindle Fire and Nook, [...]
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by Erik Kain on February 29, 2012
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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by Erik Kain on February 27, 2012
One of the big jaw-droppers at this year’s World Congress in Barcelona is the new 41-megapixel camera-phone from : the 808 PureView. The Verge notes that while the phone is billed at 41 million pixels, “as you might have surmised, this handset doesn’t take full 41-megapixel stills. Instead, it oversamples — taking the image data [...]
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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 20, 2012
Is ‘s addition of a leaderboard feature into its Latitude service a direct shot at the competition? Terrence O’Brien, writing about Google’s quiet launch, notes that, ” didn’t exactly offer much fanfare for this new feature — as far as we can tell, it still hasn’t been officially announced. With the latest update to the Maps app, Mountain [...]
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by Erik Kain on February 19, 2012
The thing I enjoy about the above concept video is that none of it is really that far-fetched. In fact, some of the innovations predicted in the above video are already coming true. That’s not surprising, given the video is a couple years old already. The concept is the product of TAT’s open innovation project. [...]
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by Erik Kain on February 18, 2012
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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by Erik Kain on February 16, 2012
~Guest post by Aziz Poonawalla In Q4 2011, ‘s revenue was a jaw-dropping $43.6 billion, with profit of $13.1 billion and cash reserves of almost $100 billion. There are a lot of ways to put these numbers in context, but I think this single chart really captures the essence of what has achieved: Here Comes The Kindle Fire Meanwhile, consider [...]
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