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Site with extensive information about mobile computing
These days, people like to be connected to the Internet wherever they go. In fact, for many millions, mobile computers are the major or only platform that they use. Back in December, I posted about the speculation that the smartphone would supplant the conventional PC for consumer use.
As the popularity of mobile platforms has grown, [...]
Where to get the latest on smartphones
I’m still using a plain old bare-bones cell phone but I thought this might be worth passing on to those of you who have or are interested in smartphones. PC World has compiled a list of 50 blogs that cover smartphones and related subjects. The article gives a thumbnail sketch of each site. The list [...]
The Apple iPad
For weeks, incredible numbers of electronic bits have been consumed by stories on the rumored Apple tablet computer. No one knew for sure what Apple was going to come up with but that didn’t keep the blogosphere from being jammed with post after post full of guesses and useless commentary. All sorts of speculation about [...]
Web browsing to be mostly on phones by 2013?
The research group Gartner likes to make predictions about trends in technology and has published a list of some things that it sees coming in the next few years. Among the predictions:
By 2013, mobile phones will overtake PCs as the most common Web access device worldwide. According to Gartner’s PC installed base forecast, the total [...]
Everything connected
There are a growing number of devices that can be directly connected to the Internet without having to use a PC. The recent Consumer Electronics Show featured quite a few of these. Om Malik reports at his blog:
The recently concluded Consumer Electronics Show brought home one simple fact: We will soon be hard-pressed to find [...]
Has Google changed the world again?
Writing at Computerworld, Mike Elgan says so. He is referring to two location services that Google calls “Near me now” and “Explore right here”. Elgan writes:
Massive, culture-shifting technologies are almost never recognized as such when first announced. They seem unimportant and peripheral at first, but later we find ourselves relying on them every day.
One [...]
Review of Consumer Electronics Show 2010
The annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is one of the big bashes in the technology world and last week was CES 2010. It’s a showcase for the latest gadgets and newest PCs. PC World gives its picks and pans:
Our crack staff of editors hit Las Vegas this week to cover the annual Consumer [...]
Quickies
Here’s a quick summary of some links that caught my eye this past week:
Tablets PCs Have Never Mattered–and Never WillThere’s been a lot of buzz about tablet PCs lately. At PC world, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols says forget about it.
What Microsoft can learn from MoblinWindows fan Brad Moczik got a new netbook with the Linux distro [...]
Google Android Nexus One phone
After endless speculation about it, the Google Nexus phone was announced today. The Official Google Blog says:
The first phone we’ll be selling through this new web store is the Nexus One — a convergence point for mobile technology, apps and the Internet. Nexus One is an exemplar of what’s possible on mobile devices through Android [...]
Comparing apples and oranges- netbooks and notebooks
A recurrent theme on the Internet consists of articles and blogs comparing netbooks to larger notebooks and pushing the thesis that netbooks are inadequate systems. These complaints about netbooks are from groups who have an ax to grind or have special applications and ignore the fact that netbooks satisfy a real consumer need.
For example, a [...]
Goggles
No, the title isn’t a typo. It’s a new Android smartphone feature from Google. Instead of typing in a search query, you snap a picture of an object and Google does a search. The service is still experimental but the Sunday New York Times business section thought the development worth an article:
THE world, like the [...]
