Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Microsoft's hardware binge: First tablets, now big displays | Brier Dudley's Blog | The Seattle Times

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Coming soon to a wall near you?... "Making Surface tablet computers was just the start of Microsoft's plunge into hardware manufac...

Chromium Blog: Introducing getUserMedia and the Javascript Gamepad API

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Chrome == platform "Today’s Chrome Beta release includes two new APIs: the getUserMedia API and the Gamepad Javascript API. The getU...

Facebook Considers Mobile Ads That Know What You're Doing - Technology Review

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Check the article link for a snapshot of Facebook's mobile advertising strategy "Ads on Facebook may already know a lot about you,...

More retailers count on revenue from shoppers using iPads and other tablet computers - Business - The Boston Globe

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Shop different "Consumers are likely to spend more time shopping from a tablet than from other types of devices for several reasons, s...
Monday, July 09, 2012

iPad Mini: Wishful Thinking? | Monday Note

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Jean-Louis Gassée reviews "iPad Mini" scenarios "Or another killer product? Or, on the pessimistic side, a loser defensive m...

A Phone that Knows Where You're Going - Technology Review

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Over-connected?... "Beyond merely tracking where you've been and where you are, your smartphone might soon actually know where you...

Disruptions: Life's Too Short for So Much E-Mail - NYTimes.com

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Excerpt from a timely e-mail reality check "Last year, Royal Pingdom, which monitors Internet usage, said that in 2010, 107 trillion e...

The Boston Globe: Samsung serves up a worthy iPhone rival

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Hiawatha Bray on the Samsung Galaxy S III; looks like it's time for Apple to launch the iPhone 5 and/or more Samsung lawsuits "If ...
Sunday, July 08, 2012

Google Slaps Oracle With $4 Million Legal Bill - John Paczkowski - News - AllThingsD

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Playing hardball with Oracle "Oracle’s narrow victory over Google in the pair’s intellectual-property dispute over Android and Java ma...

Galaxy Nexus Back on Sale at Google Play - John Paczkowski - Mobile - AllThingsD

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On a related note, check this perspective on Apple and intellectual property "On Friday, the injunction barring sales of the Galaxy N...
Friday, July 06, 2012

Is a 7-inch iPad right for Apple? - Chicago Sun-Times

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Concluding paragraphs of a timely and insightful Andy Ihnatko reality check "Nonetheless, Apple has $100 billion under its mattress. T...

Microsoft cuts Windows Home Server | Brier Dudley's Blog | The Seattle Times

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Crowded and/or clouded out of the market “The company's going to stop producing Windows Home Server, a move that was disclosed deep...

Gap between Mac and PC sales the smallest in 15 years | Technology News Blog - Yahoo! News

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In part explaining why AAPL market cap is > 2x MSFT "Currently, PCs are outselling Macs by a ratio of about 20 to 1. That's a h...

Amazon Said to Plan Smartphone to Vie With Apple IPhone - Bloomberg

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Also see  At least three Kindle Fire 2 tablets, one with 4G, on the way (CNet); this may be a contingency plan for Amazon, if it believes G...

In Apple, Nintendo's New Console Faces a Powerful Foe - Businessweek

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Think different about the future of game consoles "Experts say the new capabilities could encourage developers to create more complex,...

No Web for Hundreds of Thousands on Monday - Technology Review

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Check the article link below for more details, including diagnostic tools "Hundreds of thousands of people are likely to be confused o...
Thursday, July 05, 2012

The Google Nexus Q Is Baffling - NYTimes.com

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I've seen zero net-negative reviews for the Nexus 7, and zero net-positive reviews for the Nexus Q "Google must have bigger plans ...

Judge who shelved Apple trial says patent system out of sync | Reuters

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A timely software patent reality check and Richard Posner profile "The U.S. judge who tossed out one of the biggest court cases in App...

Don’t know if Apple will make a 7-inch tablet, but they should - Real Dan Lyons

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Excerpt from a former-Fake-Steve tablet market reality check "One thought: Apple as it exists today is so powerful and so successful i...

Tablets are (slowly) taking over for paper books and magazines, Gartner finds - Yahoo! News

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"Less-paper" rather than paperless, for now "Paper-based books aren’t in any danger of becoming vinyl record-style novelties...