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Reuters has an interesting story about the RIM Playbook.
Google is showing off some fascinating before and after shots of Japan with regards to the recent devastating tsunami. Just in case it wasn't obvious how awful this is.
Speaking of Google, the company is alegedly ready to ship an "anti-Facebook." I assume that means that it will respect user privacy by default and make it easy to change those settings.
Peter Bright over at Ars Technica reiterates my recent points about the Windows Update update fiasco. Kudos for somehow managing to not mention my name in that at all, thanks for that.
Verizon's first LTE phone, the HTC Thunderbolt, will ship this week for just $250. The bad news: It's yet another Android handsets. (YAAH!)
I normally think Jon Bon Jovi is, well, a sissy, but I give him some credit for this little move: He said this week that "Steve Jobs is personally responsible for killing the music business." I'm guessing they were shooting for the opposite of that effect.
Say what you will about Windows Phone ("inept," or whatever) but I do respect one thing they've done recently: They've denied a game called Chicks'n'Vixens from having Xbox LIVE status because it's "too much like Angry Birds."
Apple is so dominant in digital media that it took a whopping 4 percent of the US digital video market in the most recent... wait, what? 4 percent?? Apple?? Turns out this market is dominated by Netflix, with 61 percent of all viewings. But Apple isn't even in second place: That title goes to cable provider Comcast, which controls 8 percent of the market. And Apple isn't even the clear number three: It's in a tie with DirecTV and Time Warner (also a cable provider). Someone should tell Microsoft before it prematurely kills off Zune. Oh, right.
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The best quote from the Playbook article :-
"RIM didn’t expect iPhone to take off the way it did because it was so badly flawed from day one," the former RIM employee said. "They believed that users wanted great battery life, great security, great mail handling, minimal network use, and a great keyboard experience. They never expected users didn’t care."
"RIM didn’t expect iPhone to take off the way it did because it was so badly flawed from day one," the former RIM employee said. "They believed that users wanted great battery life, great security, great mail handling, minimal network use, and a great keyboard experience. They never expected users didn’t care."
Some of the most moving shots I have seen of the Japanese disaster can be seen at boston.com/bigpicture.
The stoicism of these people, admist the utter devastation makes anybody feel humble. They also put petty bickering which is quite prevalent in the IT world firmly in its place.
Instead of people being smug and showing what they have got, these people in Japan are showing the world they are still proud after having their world wiped out.
The stoicism of these people, admist the utter devastation makes anybody feel humble. They also put petty bickering which is quite prevalent in the IT world firmly in its place.
Instead of people being smug and showing what they have got, these people in Japan are showing the world they are still proud after having their world wiped out.
