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Google’s Android Comes to a Fork in the Road

Google’s Android Comes to a Fork in the Road

by Peter Kastner on April 21, 2011 in Mobile Technology

Earlier this week, I wrote that Google was not treating its smartphone and tablet operating system, Android, with the software product support to ODM’s and customers needed to make Android a strong ecosystem-competitor to Apple’s iOS, iPhone and iPad. That puts the companies that rely on Android in their products between a rock and a [...]

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Is Google the Problem With Android?

by Peter Kastner on April 18, 2011 in Industry Drama, Mobile Technology

My argument this year has been that the only way for the “anti-iPads” to beat Apple’s iOS devices, iPhone and iPad, is with a complete hardware, software, app store, and developer ecosystem. To date, Google’s Android is the best-suited challenger, but it’s faltering. The good news for Android is growing smartphone market share, as illustrated [...]

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AMD Could Add ARM Faster Than Intel

by Roger Kay on April 16, 2011 in Personal Computing

This post initially appeared on Forbes.com April 4, 2011. This morning, AMD gave a press conference to discuss a renegotiated wafer supply agreement with Globalfoundries, which spun off from AMD into a separate entity in March 2009 and acquired Charter Semiconductor to broaden its supply capabilities in September 2009.  Wafers are the silicon disks on [...]

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Union Shop Or Open Shop?

by Roger Kay on April 16, 2011 in Personal Computing

This post initially appeared on Forbes.com April 1, 2011. Not long ago, I was riding the United Airlines “bus” from Boston to San Francisco, one of the few remaining non-stop cross-country flights, when I chanced to have an interchange with a stewardess while in the back waiting for the bathroom to free up. I was [...]

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Dystopia In The Lovely Walled Gardens

by Roger Kay on April 16, 2011 in Personal Computing

This post initially appeared on Forbes.com March 31, 2011. With each passing day, our experience of computing and communicating gets more restricted.  We hardly notice as the walls go up around what we can do on the Internet.  Some people never knew we had any freedoms in this domain to begin with.  Others shrug and [...]

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Yahoo Experiments With Commentary

by Roger Kay on April 16, 2011 in Personal Computing

This post initially appeared on Forbes.com March 25, 2011. I’ve been lamenting for a while about the incivility found in the commentary on Yahoo’s news pages, the steady rain of thousands of nasty remarks below each and every article.  But the clouds seem to be parting a bit. Whether my posting had anything to do [...]

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WebOS: Will It Make Hewlett-Packard A Winner In High Mobility?

by Roger Kay on April 16, 2011 in Personal Computing

This post initially appeared on Forbes.com March 21, 2011. Before the coming out party for Hewlett-Packard’s (HP’s) new CEO, Léo Apotheker, last week in San Francisco, I would have put my money on Microsoft to make number-three vendor in the high mobility space.  Now, it seems clear that HP — with its webOS — is [...]

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Your Smartphone is About to Become Your Wallet

Your Smartphone is About to Become Your Wallet

by Peter Kastner on March 28, 2011 in Emerging Technology

A flurry of news over the past couple of months points to 2011 as the year new smartphones learned to replace your credit card and identification at retail checkout: Google Inc. is teaming up with MasterCard Inc. and Citigroup Inc. for Android phones. Google believes retail is a huge advertising opportunity; Persistent rumors that Apple’s iPhone 5 [...]

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The Anti-iPads Have to Work Together

The Anti-iPads Have to Work Together

by Peter Kastner on March 25, 2011 in Mobile Technology

HP, RIM, Intel, Google, and Microsoft — the anti-iPads — are all running in separate directions to create closed ecosystems that compete with Apple’s iOS iPhone and iPad. I hate to shout “the emperor has no clothes!” in polite company, but that anti-iPad strategy is going to fail individually and collectively. With competition like this, Apple [...]

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