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Month: January 2012

  • Mobility Stuff We Read This Week

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    Here are the top mobility articles we found this week. Forrester: Apple successfully infiltrating the office, executive washroom Forrester surveyed 9,912 workers in 17 countries to discover that 21 percent of "information workers" use one or more Apple products as part of their job (one percent reported using three Apple devices for work). The most…

  • Nexus Face Unlock FAIL

    Nexus Face Unlock FAIL

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    I recently got my hand on a Samsung Galaxy Nexus for review, it’s the Google Android 4.0 Prime phone. It’s very fast, very big and very Googly. One of the main features being advertised is its facial recognition feature that unlock your phone jut by looking it. I’m sure you seen the ad of the…

  • 512 Pixels: My Podcasting Rig

    512 Pixels: My Podcasting Rig

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    Another excellent piece by Stephen Hack on his podcasting setup, we ran a similar piece on how we set up the DadCast, we recorded a French & an English show on how to put a podcast together as well as a piece on what happens when it goes all wrong. It’s always good to see…

  • Reboot in Motion: Licensing BB 10 vs BB Messenger

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    There is a lot of chatter in the Technospere about Jim and Mike stepping down from their co-CEO roles  at RIM and making way for the COO Thorsten Heins (the first?) to helm the good ship BlackBerry out of troubled waters and back into clear seas. It’s interesting that one of small pieces from this…

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    Here are the top mobility articles we found this week. Dev-Team Blog – Corona A5 jailbreak nearly ready to pop! iOS catches up to Android in December sales, thanks to iPhone 4S Why Apple, Why Does it Have to Be Like This? The Cold Cynicism of the iBook EULA Experts say Apple’s textbook foray will…

  • Getting Samsung’d

    Getting Samsung’d

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    http://youtu.be/vOSgfvTC35A Good Ad, somehow I don’t think this will take off as a real slur though…

  • 512 Pixels on NeXT

    512 Pixels on NeXT

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      Stephen Hackett has a great piece up on his site about NeXTSTEP today. This one really took me to all the existential debates I had with Steph aka @Mononque back in the 90’s over Steve Job’s pet project and OS2 Warp and BeOS all the while lamenting our crappy beige boxes. via NeXT: The Software…

  • On Education, Apples and Teachers

    On Education, Apples and Teachers

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    Apple has recently announced that they are going to make a play to bring textbooks  to the iPad and attempt to reduce some of the burdens set out by an aging educational system. Granted, most of the cases they brought up were in fact typical of the American educational system, but many of the issues…

  • Mobility Stuff We Read This Week

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    Here are the top mobility articles we found this week. Google rolls out Android 4.0.2 to GSM Galaxy Nexus RIM Rumors Resurface What Is the Problem With the U.S. Smartphone Market? Ask the Carriers BlackBerry Tag unlocks NFC in BB OS 7.1 (video) Here’s the revised pricing for the Rogers Samsung Galaxy Nexus Bottom Line:…

  • Bringing Apple Back to the Classroom

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    I’m quite anxious about this one as I grew up with Macs in school. This was a very good thing and I wish my kid’s school would do the same instead of proliferating old loud beige boxes that no one wanted at home. If they weren’t good enough for your kids at home, why it…