May 22, 2014

Google is World’s #1 Brand

Filed under: News — admin @ 6:42 am

According to a Wall Street research firm, Google is now the world’s number one brand, ousting Apple.

It makes sense.

Consider many of the innovations brought by Google — and not just the search engine, Android OS, and online collaboration tools. I mean, Google has self-driving cars. That that, Apple!

Link

May 16, 2014

Apple’s Innovation Being Tested

Filed under: News — admin @ 6:52 am

Samsung has Galaxy Gear, their version of a wearable mobile device. Motorola is working on their wrist phone. So where is the iWatch?

According to the article, linked below, a Wall Street analyst is saying that Apple has less than two months left to demonstrate that they can innovate something in the post-Jobs era, or they will become irrelevant.

Of course, the same analyst is claiming that Apple’s stock will continue to go up, so who knows?

I do recall that Steve Jobs was supposedly planning the Next Big Thing just before his passing. Will we ever discover what that is?

Link

May 15, 2014

Is the Moto SmartWatch Any Different?

Filed under: News — admin @ 7:19 am

Mark Randall, who is high up on the Motorola food chain, describes today’s SmartWatches as all being “pretty crappy.”

Yep. I think he nails it.

Of course, the SmartWatch that his company is coming out with, the Moto 360, is going to be much, much better.

Perhaps.

I still believe the SmartWatches all blow it. A SmartWatch needs an audio interface, not a video one. You talk to the thing, it talks back. Sure, it can display the time, and the Moto 360 looks lovely. But . . . voce, voce, voce!

Link

May 9, 2014

The Phablet is Dead and Here to Stay

Filed under: News — admin @ 7:21 am

I don’t like the term phablet, used to describe those huge phones (like the Galaxy Note 3) that are part phone/part tablet. In fact, the lads at droid-life agree with me, headlining an article today that the phablet is dead.

Actually, they mean that the term is dead: Large format phones are here to stay. So entrenched they are, that formerly-regular-sized phones are now going by the moniker “mini.”

World: We need larger pockets.

Link

May 5, 2014

Creating His Own BASIC

Filed under: News — admin @ 12:15 pm

They don’t call him the Wizard of Woz for nothing. Proving once again his genius, Steve Wozniak describes the process he went through to create his own BASIC language interpreter for the original Apple computers.

Link

May 4, 2014

185TB of Data – On a Cassette Tape

Filed under: News — admin @ 8:54 am

Well, it’s not really a cassette tape, not like the ones popular in the last century. Still, Sony has developed a method of storing information on magnetic material (ala cassette tape) that really packs in the data.

Could such material harken a new dawn for the floppy disk?

Link

April 28, 2014

E.T. is Found in the Desert

Filed under: News — admin @ 6:50 am

It’s considered the worst video game of all time. It’s stench was so strong that it is often blamed for sinking Atari back in the early 1980s.

The game was called E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, which ran on the Atari 2600 console. Yep, even I had one of those, but I don’t recall buying the E.T. game. Anyway, the game was so foul that they buried over a million cartridges out in the desert somewhere. And now those cartridges have been found, putting to rest a 30-year-old rumor.

Finding the Games

Wikipedia link for the E.T. video game.

April 27, 2014

Google+ Throws In the Towel

Filed under: News — admin @ 8:48 am

How many competitors has Facebook killed? I don’t know the answer. I assume it’s a lot more than available data would show, probably because some of the competition never actually got off the ground.

Apple has tried. Microsoft has tried. Now you can safely guess that Google has tried, seeing how the creator of Google+ has left the company and many of the 1,000 others working in that department are starting to be re-assigned.

Link

April 25, 2014

California Senate Rejects ‘Kill Switch’ Legislation

Filed under: News — admin @ 7:34 am

By a narrow margin, the California State Senate rejected a bill that would have mandated kill switches be installed in cell phones and tablets.

Generally speaking, I oppose Nanny State regulations. For example, we don’t have kill switches in our cars, which is also a technology that’s widely available. If your mobile gizmo is stolen, the technology exists to instantly lock it, rendering it useless. Manufacturers and cellular providers could implement this feature automatically, primarily as a courtesy for their customers. They choose not to. Therefore perhaps a law that puts people over profits may be in order.

Link

April 24, 2014

Facebook Proves that High School Sucked

Filed under: News — admin @ 8:03 am

More than any other group, it seems that former High School friends are un-friended on Facebook.

Link

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