Category: TECHnically
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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…
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My Thoughts on New iPhone Day
In about 4 hours, Tim Cook will take the stage for his first ever keynote as CEO of Apple and he will talk about phones. That is all that Apple has said officially so far. However this Apple and the mobility world and the Technorati can’t help themselves from making the wildest and most improbable…
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RWW on the iPad as a Notebook Alternative
“I don’t see tablets, including the iPad, as replacements for notebooks,” says Nathan Clevenger, author of the new book iPad in the Enterprise, and chief software architect at management and IT consulting firm ITR Mobility. “Rather, they displace a lot of the things you would do on those devices.” Never underestimate the value of task…
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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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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…
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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…
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‘Bring your own device’ programs opening doors for iOS in the Enterprise
“You shouldn’t reject things that make employees more productive, and if those things happen to be consumer technologies, so be it,” said Ted Schadler, an analyst with Forrester Research. [..] Letting workers bring their iPhones and iPads to work can also save companies money. In some cases, employees pay for equipment themselves and seek tech…
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Joy of Tech on Facebook Updates
What is really scary is how true this really is. We are not big fans of the Farcebook on this site, even though most of us seem to be ok with letting Google scan all of our personal bios. However, there has always been something about Facebook and more specifically ZuckerNuts that have always made…
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The BlackBerry PlayBook Might Fail, But Don’t Count Out RIM Yet
The outlook continues to be pretty grim for RIM and the PlayBook specifically. Wedge Partners analyst Brian Blair believes that there is no “meaningful evidence” that RIM is poised to turn things around. “Last quarter RIM talked about shipping 500,000 units but did not speak of sell-through for obvious reasons,” the analyst wrote in a…