The first post on iDevices argued that the currently breaking wave of new iPhones, smartphones, iPads and tablets represent a major new face to personal computing. The common denominator among these iDevices is high portability, Web and WiFi connections, touch+gesture powered ease of operations, plus small but dense screens that are visible in most lighting […]
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The other shoe has fallen –China announced today that its currency would be priced based on a basket of currencies rather than exclusively on the US dollar. The net result is that Chinese goods should become more expensive. But this broader pegging announcement has been heard before and the Chinese manage to wriggle free of
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BAM Investor has rattled Wall Street cages by releasing a prediction of a $45 Apple stock price as of 3rd quarter 2010, latest 1st quarter 2011. Ha! Poppycock and nonsense. Apple as of June 23 end of day is at $270 and the cash and equivalents alone is north of $27/share. Who do these BAM
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Progress on smartphones and tablets which are touch and gesture enabled are moving so rapidly that laptops and PCs are in danger of becoming redundant. Well if not redundant, consigned to specialized development tasks. What has happened is that woefully untapped need for touch-enabled computing has been explosively released first with the iPhone then Android
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Takethe5th has been following the Apple versus Adobe debate with a bit of a jaundiced eye – wondering how Flash video and all its broad range of applications can run so fast on Windows yet slow on Macs [and Linux too]. Adobe claims that the latest Flash player 10.1 has not been tuned quite yet
Apple vs Adobe: Take 6, Apple Graphics HW is SLOWWwwww Read More »
This is not the headline, but the best line in a NYTimes story about Peak Oil Survivalists. What makes the story fascinating is that not a few times over the past 5 yaers I have contemplated some of the questions raised here.
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Willliam Cohan in the NYTimes chronicles How Wall Street Has Gone Free on nearly every incident leading to and during the Financial Meltdown. There is evidence of great fiduciary, civil and regulatory wrongdoing and nothing is being done by Justice or any of the other 17 financial regulatory agencies. Now only one stone remains –
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The NYTimes in its global edition is reporting much more on Chinese affairs – and why not ? Chinese manufacturing companies are major suppliers across more industries such as electronics, many consumer household goods, and now basic chemicals or finished metals. Of course there is the not small matter of $2trillion in US debt held
Here is something I did not expect to print here – Republican Senator Corker from Tennessee is offering a Financial Reform idea that has real bite: Corker said on “This Week” that he plans to introduce a “claw-back” provision which would take away the personal earnings for the past five years of the corporate officers
GOP Financial Reform Idea That Works! Read More »
Whats a waste! Apple’s Steve Job is getting awfully close to libelous scamming of Adobe Flash Player.Adobe has made the critical mistake of not putting enough resources into developing for Linux and Mac. And so Steve throws out HTML5 as a solution – and walks right into 3 big punches. First, HTML5 is far from
Apple versus Adobe Feud Read More »
Here are two takes on Obama’s Financial Reform – first, the Wall Street Journal looks at what others are saying: Ezra Klein, in his Washington Post blog, would have liked Obama to be a little more (Franklin) Rooseveltian in his denunciations of Wall Street practices. Comparing Obama’s speech to one FDR gave blasting the financial community
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Time Magazine and Jon Stewart have taken up a cause that I think is long overdue. Calling out Fox News for its blatant lies and deceptions occurring ever more frequently. Fox News with its motto of “Fair and Balanced” is yet again engaging in self-deception about how the Fox News Network is run. Time and
Fox is the News, Again Read More »
Apple’s Steve Jobs appears to have a)granted Adobe’s Lee Brimelow’s wish and scr#wed himself and b)has Amazon, Dell, Google, Microsoft, Nokia, Palm and a bevy of other mobile players wishing for many more happy returns by the Cupertino Czar to such faux pas plays in an unforgivably fast evolving Mobile Lite Device market. Lets handle
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Microsoft Kin is a throw-away – that is the jist of the conclusion one derives from the Engadget Opinion piece by Ross Rubin: Kin Dread Spirit. In the article, Ross describes how Microsoft top brass including Steve Ballmer and Peter Bache found fault with Google last December for entering the mobile market at the expense
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The Atlantic Wire points to some solid, high national impact breaking stories. The latest is on the nature of US Financial Reforms. In a fit of modesty, I would like to point out that this storyline was predicted and highlighted here nearly 3 weeks ago. Back -pat, pat.
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Looking for commentary on the current ugly Apple versus Adobe confrontation on the banning of Flash from the Apple Mobile Lite lineup of products [currently, iPod, Ipad, iPhone] I Stumbled on the Cult of Mac website. Cult of Mac had the returning shot across the bow by Adobe Flash Product Evangelist Lee Brimelow after Apple’s
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If Gizmodo and Wired are to be believed, Apple is leading the way to a new computing paradigm – lite, bright, easy to setup and use, long battery lifed computing and communication devices. Call it the Mobile Lineup made up of iPod, iPad, and iPhone currently. But Apple has is taking a risky road because
Apple Has Mobile Monopoly Momentum Read More »
Google is out again with much more Bing-like Search Results Since November 2009 Google has from time to time been changing its interface for Search results – and clearly what I have experienced is now out in the wild again according to SearchEngineLand. And the new interface is very nice indeed – it brings Advanced
Google Gets Binged – Markets Are Working Read More »
It is very puzzling how the Republican Party can maintain so much party discipline and consistently obtain so many unanimous all no votes in both Houses of Congress. Perhaps the recent dismissal of Republican Analysts David Frum from the AEI-American Enterprise Institute may shed some light on this incredible solidarity in GOP voting. One current
GOP Unanimity in NO Read More »
The News is Wikipedia being used for Breaking News. Over the past few years Wikipedia has become a more accepted source for historical fact and scientific reference. Although open to editing by anyone – although an IP address is recorded and registering is encouraged, Wikipedia has been able to setup a system of guidlines, rules
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Steve Ballmer’s Microsoft is playing serious catchup in 4 big markets. Google search is the obvious one and despite Bing Search it is going to be a long, tough row to hoe. But the other 3 problems all have common themes. First, they involve UI innovations as a major factor. Second, they involve Microsoft coming
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More often than not I am getting the following notice while using Google on Google’s own Chrome browser: Now the problem is I have so many tabs open that it is not easy to just restart like now. However, I can say that google.com is working just fine in other browsers which give no such
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Today is the day when Senator Chris Dodd reveals his final package for Financial Reforms – it should be as interesting as the Microsoft reveal is also today on Web Standards. Redmond decrees what, how much and how quickly it will embrace both old[promised but never delivered] and new Web Standards its going to embrace
Today: Financial Reform Reveal Date Read More »
Stephen Colbert has done a delicious send up of the News Media’s decided shift towards Infotainment with his Report on Afghanistan. True to form, Engadget has done today an “Afghanistan story” about the Apple vs Google conflict – its a great parody only capped by the final punchline Apple has a long enduring rivalry with
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The impressive rise of China as a major economic and political power has started to garner attention – number one country in numbers of new car sales, fastest growing major economy among developed countries, threatening both Germany and Japan as largest exporting county, etc. But one title that China has recently taken – second in
This blog has already praised the NYTimes and Google for their excellent and free financial information services and tools. Recently while poking around the Business Exchange I found the following article that pointed me to this intro from 2007 of the Business Week Investing web services. Here is a first, quick look at what I
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IP-Intellectual Property and the Web is becoming ever more entangled. The China vs Google confrontation is not just about censorship of the Web but rather two other and more important factors: i)continued almost total disregard for IP and Copyrights in China despite ritual Chinese government promises to police and curb blatant copying and hacking[one **(see
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Back in 2005 when Steve Jobs announced the transition from IBM Power PC chips to Intel PC chip [yep same one that were and are used in Windows-based PCs], the Mac community was flabbergasted. Many raised the question how were Macs going to distinguish themselves from Windows PCs now that nearly everything was the same
For $499 Steve Jobs Tries to Make Amends Read More »
Ever since the Supreme Court made such a flawed decision on campaign finance, the issue has been percolating on the front burner. And the gas turned up when Supreme Court Justice Alito mouthed “that is not true” when President Obama in his State of the Union Speech criticized the Court’s campaign finance decision saying it
Supremes Folly III Read More »
The price for the iPad at $500 starter may be a watershed. This is the target price that eReader and Smartphone vendors no longer can exceed. This is also the price that netbooks from Asus, Dell, Google, HP, and others have to beat. This becomes the Universal Mobile Working Computer top level price. This price
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After much speculation, Apple’s iPad hit the Gadget Mindscape market with a thud. To say that the Gadgeterati did not like the iPad is, unfortunately for Apple, an understatement: Gizmodo – 8 things about the iPad that sucks – No Thanks Apple PCWorld – Apple’s iPad mistakes – so many Engadget – On the iPad,
Apple’s iPad: 3 Viewpoints Read More »
As predicted by this blog the China vs Google issue has escalated dramatically and the Chinese government is rejecting any suggestions that it was behind the concerted set of cyber attacks against Google and at least 20 other US firms and agencies: ”Any accusation that the Chinese government participated in cyber attacks, either in an explicit
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