Tag: Tech
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Reboot in Motion: Licensing BB 10 vs BB Messenger
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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Happy Holidays from The Dads
Those in the know understand the draw of the East End of Long Island. The Hamptons, sitting on the South Fork of the island, are a group of hamlets, villages and towns lying along the Atlantic Ocean. The area is a perpetual playground for the rich and famous, and for city dwellers who appreciate a…
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Top 10 From The Last 500 Fat Ones
Last Week, Steph published the 500th post from on our 2FatDads site, a site he and I created far too long ago. Over the years we invited Ben, Eric and Steve to join us; not only writing some pretty awesome tech reviews and rants but also in creating the DadCast which will be resuming it’s…
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DIY USB cable repair ; challenge accepted.
I will follow up to edno’s hardware laden post (nice one, BTW) with my own brand of DIY tutorial happiness. NOTA : This is a simple tutorial and by no means THE definitive soldering How-To. I’m not an expert but the job I did with the oscillating tool, as related here, worked as it was…
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Neven Mrgan on Apple TV with Siri
But the idea that Siri would be the main interface of Apple TV is as silly as making Siri the main UI for the iPad. Siri is good at letting the user submit hard-to-categorize, multi-part, uncertain inputs in the most expressive and effortless way we humans have: spoken language. I think TV mainly revolves around a…
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Harry McCracken on the iPad Rivals of 2010
Spoiler: If you like happy endings, you should stop reading now. It really is as sad as it sounds. Read on for the an in depth and complete run through of the class that never quite made it. via Whatever Happened to the iPad Rivals of 2010? | Technologizer.
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Kara Swisher on TechCrucnh and Logic!
But — because it is simply flat-out wrong on every possible scale — neither Walt Mossberg or I would ever consider being editors of the site, while also running a venture fund. via Michael Arrington Trying to Buy Back TechCrunch From AOL – Kara Swisher – Media – AllThingsD. I don’t even read TechCrunch anymore…
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Michael Geist on RIM’s Woes and The Canadian Telecom Policy
This is an excellent piece from one of Canada’s premier columnist on technology law issues and law professor at the University of Ottawa. this particular article takes up the argument that the Canadian Government should step in to assist RIM in order to avoid another “Nortel” disaster. We have already spoken up about this aid…
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Smartphone Messenger Apps Compared
A very interesting comparison on various new messenger apps for smartphone: Facebook Messenger, Google+ Huddle and Apple iOS iMessage. The only other important one missing from the list is BlackBerry’s BBM. GigaOm.