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eBooks and Smartphones

February 8, 2009 – 8:24 pm

TweetUpdate: see a presentation of the Kindle2 here. Another look at an old, but not aging, topic: eBooks. There is visible agitation ahead of Amazon’s expected announcement, probably as you read this note Monday February 9th.  Jeff Bezos is set to announce a new version of the Kindle eBook reader, let’s call it Kindle 2.0. [...]

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The end of Motorola?

November 3, 2008 – 7:46 am

TweetOnce upon a time, Motorola was the king of cell phones. AT&T invented the cellular network, Motorola, already a leader in radio technology, designed the mobile devices and, in 1983, introduces the Dyna-Tac, the first of a long line of clearly superior products, all ending in Tac.  In the late eighties and nineties, MicroTacs and [...]

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Android: First Impressions

October 26, 2008 – 11:11 pm

TweetLet’s forget, for a moment, the sublime irony at the end of the W years, the right-wing neocons’ parting gift: a socialistic, state-owned financial system. Too depressing. . Instead, let’s take a first look at Android, the latest entry in the most dynamic segment of the high-tech industry, smartphones.  (The nice folks at T-Mobile will [...]

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By the numbers. And what do they mean for our industry

September 7, 2008 – 5:27 pm

TweetThis is the Fall season of business plans for the coming year. The numbers will mean pain for the media industry. Below is a set of facts and figures to keep in mind when considering newspapers, advertising, search, mass collaboration… and coffee. . The newspaper industry’s overall condition . 80% gone: Within the last 12 [...]

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iPhone Applications: Apple people now believe in a Supreme Being

June 16, 2008 – 6:14 pm

TweetNo, no, not Steve Jobs but an even higher entity smiling upon the company. As I hope to show, Apple’s hard work years ago is now about to pay huge unexpected dividends on the iPhone. When the iPhone first came out of Steve Jobs’ quasi-divine hands in January 2007, it was a hack, the result [...]

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