Tag: fire

  • Stop, Drop, and Roll — the Kindle is on Fire!

    So the Kindle Fire has been announced, followed by the iPhone 5 – no wait, the 4S, and we’ve got Google, RIM, Nokia and everyone else lining up for their shot at end-of-year/pre-shopping killer announcements. Of course the iPhone 5iPhone 4S killed them all, but that’s not surprising and hardly worth debating. Nothing to talk…

  • Silky Privacy Concerns

    What about handling secure (https) connections? We will establish a secure connection from the cloud to the site owner on your behalf for page requests of sites using SSL (e.g. https://siteaddress.com). Amazon Silk will facilitate a direct connection between your device and that site.  Any security provided by these particular sites to their users would…

  • Amazon Lights Up Android’s Fork in the Road with Kindle Fire

    What does Amazon have that Motorola, HTC, Samsung, LG, Huawei do not? In a word … everything. That pretty much sums it up quite nicely, must of us were hoping that Google and Amazon would have teamed up a little better on this and developed and true iPad competitor. Unfortunately,   the reality is that…

  • There’s no App for this.

    Let’s leave modern tech and all the shiny behind for a minute, to concentrate on a more fundamental level of existence: survival. We are frail creatures whose needs are very basic in biological terms; food, water, shelter and security. Everything that we do is an unconscious derivative of these needs.  We’ve accomplished much for our…