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Category Archives: Mobile
Windows 8, iOS and that weird post by Aaron Holsgrove
[Other](http://daringfireball.net/2011/06/windows_8_fundamentally_flawed) [people](http://curiousrat.com/home/2011/6/12/holesgrove-on-gruber-and-windows-8-a-public-trainwreck.html) have picked apart Aaron Holsgrove’s post on “[Why Windows 8 is not fundamentally flawed as a response to the iPad](http://www.businessinsider.com/why-windows-8-is-not-fundamentally-flawed-as-a-response-to-the-ipad-2011-6)”, but I think it’s worth going over more. It’s a catalogue of mistakes, which would keep the average … Continue reading
Dell’s latest laptop borrows from Apple designs
Engadget reviews the Dell XPS 15z, which is supposedly a competitor for the MacBook Pro series. The short version: it’s cheaper, not as powerful, but does at least look a bit better than the old chunky XPS series. When Dell … Continue reading
Why Microsoft bought Skype
Cringely thinks it’s simply to stop Google getting it: “Were Google to buy Skype they’d convert those 663 million Skype subscriptions to Google Voice and Gmail and in a swoop make parts of Yahoo and MSN irrelevant. They’d build a … Continue reading
Posted in Google, Microsoft, Mobile
Tagged Google, Linksys, Microsoft, MSN, NetGear, Skype, Steve Ballmer, Windows Phone 7
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Google Music: Not that great
Venturebeat gives Google’s music beta a first look: “Music Beta in its current form is far from what we’d expect from a Google product— it’s a web of confusing programs without a lot of instruction as to how to actually get … Continue reading
The final proof that Symbian is dead, dead, dead
The Inquirer: “FINNISH PHONE MAKER Nokia has announced plans to outsource Symbian development and support to the IT management consulting firm Accenture.” Accenture: Where old software goes to die.
Posted in Mobile, Nokia, Web/Tech
Tagged Accenture, Mobile Computing, Nokia, Symbian
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Apple is dead in the water, redux
Charles Arthur, reporting for The Guardian on an IDC/Appcelerator survey of developers: “App developer interest is shifting back toward Apple as fragmentation and “tepid” interest in current Android tablets chips away at Google’s recent gains in momentum, according to a new survey … Continue reading
Posted in Apple, Google, iPhone, Mobile, Web/Tech
Tagged Android, Apple, Charles Arthur, Fred Wilson, Google, Guardian, Henry Blodget, iOS, iPad, iPhone
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So what does that location database on your phone really do?
Jim Smith, who knows a thing or two about mobile, pokes around in the controversial consolidated.db database on the iPhone and comes up with this: “I’m pretty certain that consolidated.db is used to seed the assisted GPS used for iOS … Continue reading
Posted in Apple, iPhone, Mobile
Tagged Alasdair Allan, Apple, FourSquare, iOS, iPad, iPhone, iTunes
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Goodbye, JKOnTheRun
Warner Crocker on the demise of JKOnTheRun: jkOnTheRun was one of the first mobile tech blogs I followed and JK was one of the guys who I always turned to hear or read his opinion. I still do. Whether it … Continue reading
Posted in Mobile, Web/Tech
Tagged Blogging, GigaOm, James Kendrick, JKOnTheRun, Warner Crocker
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This guy understands
Sometimes, commenters are better than the articles on which they’re commenting. On a post about how Google is open, no really, it’s open, Android owner “David S” says this: So Android is open if you redefine open to the point … Continue reading
Compare and contrast
Compare… “The Glendale Galleria store in California sold out of all their iPad 2s within 45 minutes of opening their doors (thanks, Michael K.). According to multiple reports via Twitter, users were unable to choose the model they wanted.” and … Continue reading
