Category: Blog
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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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Building a semi-powerhouse gaming PC station
The conundrum was in how to sell this idea to the better half.
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Consumerisation and the LiteralNet
This one is just for fun, but it strike a cord in most IT departments. The simple truth is that if you want to bring your own “toys” to work, you have better know how it works and expect to do a little Googling when things go awry. via ReadWriteWeb: Comics, The Real Story Behind…
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John Gruber and The Verge on Native Apps
The intersection of exquisitely-crafted native apps with ubiquitous networking and cloud-backed storage. [..] Used to be that native apps felt best but anchored your data to the device, and web apps running in a browser offered you ubiquitous access to your data but had a crummy front-end experience. We’re getting to a point now where…
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Happy Halloween You Frackin Zombies!
Have a great time Trick or Treating with the kids and don’t forget to impose the Dad Tax on them to teach them properly about economics and the real world! Joy Of Tech – Halloween Cartoon targets .
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Motorola PRO+ the Blackberry Killer! Err, wait a minute?!
Today Motorola announced the PRO+: a 4G Blackberry look-a-like with a touch screen and keyboard. I thought we had all pretty much agreed that Blackberry was going to languish in a painful death spiral, with BBX being it’s final, Shakespearian monologue. I didn’t think anyone would jump on the hey, if you want a blackberry but don’t…
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Millennial: iPad king of tablets with 456% growth
The iPad dominated tablets, having grown a whopping 456% between the third quarter in 2010 and this past quarter, and impressions across iOS grew 60% over the same period. Apple was the top manufacturer on Millennial’s network in the third quarter with a 23.09% share followed by Samsung (16.48%), HTC (15.5%), RIM (11.05%) and Motorola…
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Steve Ballmer, Keeping it Classy
“You don’t have to be a computer scientist to use a Windows Phone,” said Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer, “but you do to use an Android phone.” How does the Microsoft board let this guy get on the stage. This is not the quote to make when you have a lower smartphone market share than the company…
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Paul Thurrot Still Doesn’t Understand Upgrade Cycles
There’s a long-running joke that Apple’s fans would buy anything the company sold, no matter the quality. But this past weekend, the joke became reality when the Cupertino consumer electronics giant sold 4 million units of a smart phone, the iPhone 4S, which even its most charitable supporters have described as an evolutionary update over…
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How BlackBerry Can Make It Up to Its Customers Comic – Still Not Good Enough
Seriously, the whole thing was handled pretty badly and it could not have happened at a worse time. Three whole days of outages, just as you biggest competitor to date is about to launch a phone that you can talk to, ask it questions and rely on it as a useful personal assistant. via AllThingsD.