I recently came back from a great two week trip to China and Japan. Because I needed an international phone plan/data access, I ended up giving up my beloved DROID2 (which lacks international roaming/data) for two weeks and using the iPhone 4 my company had given me. Because much has changed in the year and [...]
(Cross posted to Bench Press) Singapore is a fascinating country – despite the lack of what most in the West would recognize as democratic freedom, it consistently ranks well in terms of lack of corruption and high and growing standard of living for its people. It is also one of the boldest when it comes [...]
This past weekend, a TechCrunch article caught the tech blogosophere off guard with an interesting claim: Facebook is building a mobile phone, says a source who has knowledge of the project. Or rather, they’re building the software for the phone and working with a third party to actually build the hardware. Which is exactly what [...]
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I’ve mentioned Moore’s Law in passing a few times before. While many in the technology industry see the concept only on its most direct level – that of semiconductor scaling (the ability of the semiconductor industry, so far, to double transistor density every two or so years) – I believe this fails to capture its [...]
Very provocative headline (see title of blog post) for an interesting WSJ piece: “They are serious about making a change,” one person familiar with the matter said. Nokia board members are “supposed to make a decision by the end of the month,” that person said. They should be very serious about making a change – [...]
One of the most impressive developments in the web and the mobile phone space has been the emergence of new platforms for software developers to target. The developer’s repertoire is no longer just Windows, Mac OS, and Linux, but Android, iPhone OS, Windows Phone 7, Facebook, Twitter, and many more. While these new platforms are [...]
[This is a continuation of my post on Why Smartphones are a Big Deal (Part 1)] Last time, I laid out four reasons why smartphones are a lot more than just phones for rich snobs: It’s the software, stupid Look ma, no <insert other device here> Putting the carriers in their place Contextuality My last [...]
A cab driver the other day went off on me with a rant about how new smartphone users were all smug, arrogant gadget snobs for using phones that did more than just make phone calls. “Why you gotta need more than just the phone?”, he asked. While he was probably right on the money with [...]
A few weeks ago, I puzzled over why Microsoft isn’t pursuing a more integrated device strategy across its non-PC platforms. After all, if you’re on shaky ground (new device markets), you should do everything you can to steady yourself against something more firm (like your PC business or the combination of your other devices). So, [...]