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Motorola reports quarterly results. Good luck with the buyout, Google
The Android phone business isn’t doing a whole lot to help Motorola Mobility, the company that Google is paying $12.5 billion to buy. They might want to rethink their purchase in light of the most recently numbers. They’re just terrible. … Continue reading
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Bad news for Google: Verizon blocking Google Wallet
From 9to5Google (bolded portion is mine): The Galaxy Nexus headed to Verizon Wireless in the next week or so won’t feature Google Wallet, even though it has the NFC chip to do so, we have learned. The app won’t be … Continue reading
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New Nook Color coming November 7
I have the Nook Touch, the black-and-white e-ink reader Barnes & Noble released last summer. I love it, and use it almost every day, in addition to my iPad (which my wife has commandeered to read the complete Dresden Files). … Continue reading
Google buys Motorola Mobility
So now Google will be providing the “open” Android operating system to handset makers like HTC and Samsung, while at the same time directly competing with them in the smartphone sales space. I’m sure HTC and Samsung are thrilled. I … Continue reading
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Flipboard CEO: No Android challenges to the iPad in 2011
If you have an iPad and don’t have Flipboard, stop whatever you’re doing and get it right now. It’s one of the best ways to showcase exactly how the larger screen of an iPad makes it fundamentally different from an … Continue reading
Ars Technica reviews the Motorola Xoom tablet
Overall there are a lot of things to like, but in the end it feels rushed and incomplete. The Xoom’s impressive hardware specifications and ambitious feature lineup are intriguing, but the product falls short of its full potential due to … Continue reading
The smartphone singularity
The singularity has been written about extensively in science fiction circles for at least the past decade, and for a lot longer in less well known, less public venues. The concept of the singularity is fairly simple. Here’s one of the definitions from Wikipedia: … Continue reading
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Google TV in trouble
A number of consumer electronics manufacturers were set to debut a new round of Google TV devices at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas next month. Companies like Toshiba, LG, and Sharp were going to join the likes of … Continue reading
The difference between Apple TV and Google TV
The Google TV remote from Sony: The Google TV remote from Logitech: The Apple TV remote: Let me be the first to say, Bwahahahaha!! Are they on freaking drugs?! Who the hell thought these hideously complex remote controls would appeal … Continue reading
Advertising: iPhone vs. Android
I’ve noticed something about the advertising differences between Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Android phones, specifically the Motorola Droids (and, specifically, television ads). I think what I’ve noted highlights the differences between the devices and their intended audiences. I also think … Continue reading
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