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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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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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Is The PC Dead?

by Roger Kay on March 27, 2011 in Personal Computing

Smart Devices Will Lap PCs in 2011 This post first appeared in Forbes.com Feb. 28, 2011. Smartphones are upon us, and so are tablets, and some other new ways individuals can get on the Internet are likely to arrive in the next few years as well.  So, will the PC remain central, play some sort [...]

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This Ain’t Yer Grandpaw’s nVidia

by Roger Kay on March 27, 2011 in Personal Computing

This post first appeared on Forbes.com March 14, 2011. Jen-Hsun Huang held forth in his usual manner last week before an audience of industry analysts at nVidia headquarters in Santa Clara, CA. He was a bit chagrined because the day before he had given the same lecture to a group of financial analysts, and the [...]

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Is an iPad a PC?

by Rob Enderle on March 4, 2011 in Mobile Technology

Boy this sounds like a simple question doesn’t it because we know an iPad is basically a big iPod Touch and there is no doubt an iPod touch isn’t a PC right?   But now think how it is being used, over the last week two of the analysts sitting with me had left their PCs [...]

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If Microsoft had Bought Novell in 1992: An Alternative History

by Rob Enderle on March 4, 2011 in Industry Drama, Personal Computing

This week Microsoft effectively purchased the intellectual property behind Novell.  Boy this was a long time in coming and represents kind of a strange page in history.   You see Microsoft initially wanted to buy Novell in the early 90s when Microsoft split with.   Ray Norda, who ran Novell at the time, didn’t believe regulatory approval [...]

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