Google Glasses on sale by end of 2012?
February 21, 2012
Google’s HUD, augmented reality glasses are real and arriving sooner than expected. In fact, you could be wearing them by year’s end.
Category: Android
Android 5 is coming out already?
February 18, 2012
Google is apparently releasing its next Android version for tablets this Spring. That’s surprising since Android 4.0 was just released this past fall and then only on a few devices. This rush to get Android 5.0 out before Windows 8 is released in the Fall seems a bit precipitous. After all many users are still waiting for their devices to be updated to Android 4.0 sometime this year and now it looks like that update will be obsolete by the time it arrives.
Slacker kids fear app enhanced Bluetooth toothbrush
February 16, 2012
“Son, have you brushed your teeth?” An inevitable, “yes,” is his reply, which leaves you wondering did he mean just now or sometime this century? So off you go, or not, to check their breath and/or whether their toothbrush is wet and suitably minty. A new bit o’ tech could soon put an end to the whole silly back and forth.
Almost 500k ‘App-Related Jobs’ In U.S.
February 8, 2012
Almost 500,000 “app-related jobs” have been created in the U.S. thanks to the emergence of smartphones, tablets, and social networks.
Samsung’s Galaxy Note Super Bowl ad designed to tempt Apple fanboys away
February 6, 2012
How not to tempt Apple fanboys away from their beloved: mock them while trying to sell them a phone/tablet that does neither thing very well.
A spoonful of sugar? RIM sweetens pot for developers
February 3, 2012
Free gift! Or, put another way, how to get a small downpayment on what is probably a bad investment of your time. Research in Motion is looking at you — developers, developers, developers — and, if you port your Android app to QNX in 10 days or less, they are graciously willing to part with an entry-level 16GB PlayBook.
Fear factor: iPhone gains underpin Apple’s growing market power
February 2, 2012
When the iPhone 4S shipped last October, smartphone pundits declared it dead on arrival because it “lacked” 4G LTE, a four-inch display, Near Field Communication (NFC) payment functionality and a range of other checklist features that infest offerings from other vendors, especially Android devices. That string of crowd-sourced wisdom turned out to be stupendously wrong, but the real meat of the story isn’t playing out in public.
Android users get busy in bathroom
February 1, 2012
Here’s a powerful realization for you to act upon — if you don’t take your expensive, absolutely life critical smartphone into the bathroom, it can’t fall into the toilet. Seriously, keep your business out of your business. That said, though iPhone owners are somewhat less likely to diddle in the loo, smartphone users overwhelmingly aren’t giving it a break when they go to the restroom.
Verizon prepping shared data plans
January 30, 2012
A long time coming. Consumers first heard about shared data plans from both AT&T and Verizon back in June 2011, but many of us have been hoping the carriers would come to their senses at least since the iPhone hit the scene and revolutionized the smartphone segment back in 2007. Of course, the devil will be found in the details.
Well, at least Samsung’s healthy
January 27, 2012
Many of Apple competitors are having trouble making products people want and, quite naturally, money therefrom. Results from Motorola, LG, Nokia and HTC have all disappointed investors and analysts in recent weeks. Fundamentally, it’s well nigh impossible to compete with Apple on the basis of “kitchen + sink” feature sets and race to bottom pricing.
HTC focuses on fewer Android handsets
January 27, 2012
Less is more, or so they say. They being Apple fanboys, usually. But perhaps it’s a good strategy for Android handset manufacturers to adopt at this point in time.
Stop Apple making Jailbreaking illegal!
January 26, 2012
The people need to stand up and be heard, to tell Apple that they want the option to open their ‘i’ devices up by jailbreaking.
RIM drops two CEOs, elevates one
January 23, 2012
This is just a strange situation all the way around. It may be true that the company’s Blackberry subscriber base is still growing, momentum has clearly shifted to the iPhone and Android. Further, the once industry-leading Canadian smartphone maker’s tablet play hasn’t paid off.
Before you decide to publish with iBooks look at what others have to offer
January 21, 2012
A lot of people are all agog at Apple’s new iBooks Author App. Don’t be. Self publishing software has been around for awhile. Not only has it been around it has been used and is being used successfully to publish books that can be sold for more devices than just Apple’s. Rather than rushing headlong into software that will limit where your book can be read, look around and try out a few different programs.
Kindle Fire: Normal is as normal does
January 20, 2012
Oh my goodness gracious, Kindle Fire sales are expected to plummet — plummet, I say — this quarter. Are the good times over, the end nigh? Actually, a big fall off after the holiday quarter is perfectly normal and Amazon’s tablet-ish media slate has a case of the post-holiday blues. But how blue is blue?
Woz loves Android, hates Siri
January 18, 2012
When even the co-founder of Apple admits he’s a fan of Android, Google knows it’s doing something right.
Yes, iPad is a computer but not a PC
January 13, 2012
Not all tablets are computers, which are devices that are useful for “real” work. The Amazon Kindle Fire is definitely not a computer, but the latest version of Barnes & Noble’s Nook might be. One thing the iPad isn’t, however, is a PC. Honestly, if it was in any way a PC, sales would stink in equal measure.
