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Archives for April 2010

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Friday, April 30, 2010

The rise of Apple and the end of Microsoft

Marc Benioff, CEO of SalesForce in Fortune:As we try to keep pace with these changes to a new computing industry, we are left with only two choices: innovate or die. Microsoft like DEC before it, and IBM before it, tried too long to hold on to its Windows model believing it was permanent in an industry... Read More »
Thursday, April 29, 2010

Why HP Is Buying Palm And Why It Will Fail

Dan Frommer in Forbes:HP wants what Apple has: One operating system, which it completely controls, at the heart of all of its consumer electronics—phones, tablets, lightweight PCs, perhaps music players, digital cameras, televisions, etc. And HP doesn’t want to have to license it from Microsoft... Read More »

The iPad Wars: HP buys Palm

In another sign that HP gets it and realizes that Microsoft’s tablet efforts, after 10 years of failures, won’t lead the company to compete against the iPad:HP and Palm, Inc. today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which HP will purchase Palm, a provider... Read More »
Wednesday, April 28, 2010

The Google Wars: Apple buys Siri

Did Apple just get into the search business? Dan Fommer in Business Insider on Apple’s purchase of Siri, a mobile assistant app maker:Basically, you type stuff into your phone, and it connects to APIs across the Web to bring you a result. Sure sounds like search. (Without having to scrape and... Read More »
Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Microsoft: Google infringes our patents

In another episode of The enemy of my enemy is my friend, Apple nemesis Microsoft says Google infringes their patents in HTC’s Android smart phone. Ina Fried in CNET:Microsoft and HTC announced they have inked a new patent deal that specifically provides the Taiwanese cell phone maker with the... Read More »
Monday, April 26, 2010

Pima, Arizona deputies to get iPhones

An iPhone helps Arizona deputies find illegal immigrants. From Jamar Younger in the Arizona Daily Star:Deputies will be able to do more than make calls, download program applications, send text messages and surf the Internet. The phones will come equipped with a special application called Coplink,... Read More »

A Few Words On Android And iPhone

Saturday, April 24, 2010
I’ve been browsing around Google’s Android Market. For all the complaints some have when using iTunes Store for the App Store—and, admittedly, there’s an awful lot going on in iTunes—it sure seems to work well compared to Android Market, which is typical Google—barren,... Read More »