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    Are Smartphones Now Commodities?

    October 5th, 2010

    With the proliferation of Android OS gear, it is becoming near impossible to tell one from the other. The situation is very similar to what prevails in the PC industry, and throughout the consumer electronics space, where numerous mostly similar products are released with distinctions that often aren’t obvious without carefully examining a product’s specs. […]


    Are You Sure You Want an Open System?

    September 28th, 2010

    In the latest issue of our weekly newsletter, I brought up an article from Washington Post tech columnist that pretty much sums up the serious shortcomings of the Android OS. You see, open doesn’t always translate to something that’s actually good. Think about the issue of interface consistency. With Mac OS X and Windows, you […]


    The iPad Killer Window of Opportunity Shortens

    September 24th, 2010

    As regular readers know, the first of an expected large group of tablet-based gadgets are beginning to go on sale. These are the supposed iPad killers that will, some suggest, seriously erode Apple’s market share in the tablet market. That assumes, of course, that any of these products are actually any good and properly marketed, […]


    The Adobe Flash Fiction Report

    September 23rd, 2010

    Even when a story is just not true, that doesn’t stop it from being repeated over and over again. Take the silly theory that Apple won’t allow Flash into its mobile walled garden so Steve Jobs could exert more complete control over your online experience. Few will admit that the objections contained in his infamous […]