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Friday, September 3, 2010

Burning Brighter: The Future of Firefox, Browsers and the We

Posted by Digg RSS Search for smartphone on July 8, 2010

Remember the Browser Wars of the Aughts? Internet Exploder gripped the web. Firefox 1.0 challenged the king. Six years later, IE is waning. (But still strong.) WebKit rules smartphones. Where does Mozilla, and the web, go from here?

The Case Against Apple–in Five Parts

Posted by Technorati Search for: iPhone 3G on August 8, 2009

About six years and $20,000 ago, I made the switch to Apple products after a 20-year love affair with Microsoft. That love affair started with the humble PCjr and ended with an IBM ThinkPad. From DOS to the first version of Windows (the run-time version that only loaded one program), and on to Windows 95 and XP, I dealt with the viruses, driver incompatibilities and other assorted quirks of Microsoft’s wildly open ecosystem. It sucked to have to buy anti-virus software and reinstall Windows ev

A Taxonomy of Book Bloggers (2009 Edition)

Posted by Technorati Search for: smartphone on July 24, 2009

Since the book blogging world changes so frequently — with its first waves and second waves, its stormy internecine battles, and its endless capacity for argument over trivial subjects — I thought the time had come to identify the many different types presently occupying the online literary scene. I need not state my own expertise and qualifications on this topic. I have been a litblogger for six years and I possess such an uncontrolled ego that I have been engaged in some kind of skirmish wit

How Wi-Fi saved 3G from the iPhone (telecomasia.net)

Posted by Yahoo! News Search Results for title:iPhone title:3G on July 2, 2009

Five or six years ago, everyone was arguing over whether Wi-Fi hotspots were going to kill 3G. Remember that? As you'll recall, 3G wasn't that widespread in 2003-2004, or all that impressive in terms of data speeds.

Smartphone+NetBook=SmartBook?

Posted by Technorati Search for: smartphone on June 2, 2009

Six years ago, when Psion announced their netBook, it was an irreplaceable breakthrough for mobile enterprise market. Excuse the geeks for they must have hallucinated of the next big thing, probably a cloned descendant of Mactini. So what could be the future of post-netbook world? The notebooks had paved the way for netbooks and now [...]