BlackBerry’s Be Bold team
Mobile Syrup: RIM creates 4 cartoon characters to spread the “Be Bold” message This is a thing that exists.
The negative $70 million buzzword
Dustin Curtis: Motorola’s Buzzwords and Made up Names Here are a few of Motorola’s buzzwords of 2011: Unveiled the award-winning DROID 4 by Motorola Announced the “life proof” Motorola DEFY™ MINI and slim MOTOLUXE™ Shipped award-winning MOTOACTV™ And what did they end up with? 70 million fewer dollars than they did three months before. Fact: […]
Samsung’s got every inch covered
Screen sizes in inches for Samsung smartphones and tablets: 3 3.2 3.5 3.7 4 4.3 4.5 4.52 4.65 5.3 7 7.7 8.9 10.1 With an average difference between the sizes being 0.54-inches, it’s almost comical. Oh, and they’ve got a tablet of the 11.6-inch variety rumored to be coming soon. The real question here is where is […]
Smiling in your Facebook photo
ReadWriteWeb: Why You Should Smile in Your Facebook Profile Photo People who smile more in their public Facebook photos tend to have better social relationships. Past research, which the study thoroughly references, shows that people who smile in photos are generally warmer and friendlier than their sad face counterparts. The smilier they are, the easier time […]
For HTC, less is more
Mobile Today Magazine: HTC is holding out for a market hero HTC UK executive director Phil Roberson: We have to get back to focusing on what made us great – amazing hardware and a great customer experience. We ended 2011 with far more products than we started out with. We tried to do too much. So […]
‘Quarrel’ on the Xbox
Sidequesting: Review: Quarrel (XBLA) I didn’t clock much time in with Quarrel on iOS, but I did prefer the controls on that platform. Cycling through letters with the analog stick is not as easy as using a touchscreen, but it isn’t a problem in the big picture. The added multiplayer and Challenge mode more than […]
Fun fact: iPhones on AT&T
AT&T 7.6 million of the 9.4 million phones AT&T sold from October to December of last year were iPhones.
Where should the iPhone be manufactured?
A few days ago, I linked to a New York Times story that explained why the iPhone is manufactured in China as opposed to in the United States. While interesting, it surely adds to people’s concern that jobs are being outsourced. And with the economy the way it is now, who can blame them? According […]
The future of television, according to Netflix
Netflix Over the next few years, UIs will evolve in astounding ways, such as allowing viewers to watch eight simultaneous games on ESPN, color coding where the best action is in a given moment or allowing Olympics fans the ability to control their own slow-motion replays. A decade from now, choosing a linear feed from a broadcast […]
Interview attire for startups
Business Insider: How To Nail A Startup Interview: ‘We Don’t Care What You Look Like, Just Don’t Smell’ Best line ever: Bo.lt CEO Matthew Roche… “Engineering – wear clothing.”
Ultrabooks
Sam Biddle, Gizmodo: Ultrabook: The New Most Meaningless Word in Tech “The Ultrabook” is less a thing than a marketing idea carefully baked by Intel: let’s spend hundreds of millions of dollars promoting a word (Ultrabook), and in turn, companies can use that word to sell thin, fast, light computers. Tablets (iPads) and the MacBook Air […]
Apple is making money hand over fist
Apple just announced their financial results for their last quarter, and it was a monster quarter. Or, as MG Siegler put it, holy fucking shit. In total, the Cupertino sold: 37 million iPhones 15.4 million iPods 15.4 million iPads 1.5 million iMacs 3.7 million Macbooks One more interesting bit of information regarding the iPhone: 4.7 […]
Voice to text
Whatever happened to Siri?
Rumor: Microsoft Points on way out
Inside Mobile Apps: MIcrosoft to discontinue its virtual currency system Microsoft Points Microsoft’s proprietary virtual currency system, Microsoft Points, will be phased out by the end of the year, according to a source with knowledge of the company’s decision. The change will affect developers for Windows Phone, the Zune marketplace and Xbox Live. By the […]
The aftermath of the T-Mobile-AT&T deal
All Things D / WSJ: T-Mobile, AT&T Seek Approval of Spectrum Transfer T-Mobile USA and AT&T Inc. filed a request with the U.S. Federal Communications Commission for approval of the transfer of $1 billion in wireless airwaves AT&T promised as a result of the failure of its $39 billion bid to take over its smaller rival. […]
Tablet ownership doubles over holiday season
According to the Pew Research Group, in the month spanning mid-November to late December of 2011, tablet ownership among Americans aged 16 and older essentially doubled. Notable tablet releases during before the boom include the Kindle Fire and the Nook tablet. The numbers:
A little more on RIM
It’s great that RIM is finally taking action and putting the kibosh on the circus show its two former co-CEOs (still a ridiculous thing to say, co-CEO) were putting. However, both men will be sticking around. I went back and read RIM’s press release and found this little gem: Mike Lazaridis, former Co-Chair and Co-CEO, […]
RIM CEOs step down
Engadget: RIM’s Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis are out, new CEO Thorsten Heins may license BlackBerry 10 Well, it’s about time. Although, I have a bit of a problem with this quote by RIM’s new CEO: BlackBerry 7 has been well received. We are very excited about PlayBook 2.0 and BlackBerry 10. The reception of our […]
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