Archive for June, 2007

Picking a Smartphone: 7 Criteria To Help You Out

June 29, 2007

I leave on vacation tomorrow, my first since December…. Apple releases the ridiculously hyped iPhone today. I have heard reports that it cures cancer… we launched our first BlackBerry product last week… Infinity Softworks’ web site or email system has been a headache for two straight weeks now… Palm and RIM announced quarterly earnings yesterday [...]

BlackBerry… Meet powerOne

June 20, 2007

I spent years trying to steer Infinity Softworks out of mobile computing.
When the stock market crashed in 2001 and then the terrorist attack later that year, people stopped buying handhelds. We spent years trying to prop ourselves up in the market. We tried to go vertical, developing products for real estate and education, but our [...]

Flash: It’s Not Just For Naked People Anymore

June 14, 2007

I opened the business section of the local newspaper this morning to find something quite interesting. It seems that Hewlett-Packard announced laptops with flash memory instead of hard drives. This announcement, along with Palm’s Foleo announcement, is very interesting. It is the opening salvo in the battle for the next generation of mobile computers.
I am [...]

The Skinny on BlackBerry Smartphones

June 6, 2007

I have talked to a number of customers and seen a number of blogs where people are asking what device they should buy next? [One example here.] I thought I would take the opportunity to talk about devices based on operating system and my opinion of each.
My first entry is on BlackBerry devices.
The Good

Simple design: [...]

Is Palm Foleo making mobility easier?

June 1, 2007

On June 30, Palm announced the Foleo. In my mind it’s an ambitious endeavor.
For the third time, Palm is trying to re-invent a product category. First was the personal organizer (PDA), then was the smartphone and now the laptop. Palm wasn’t the first to design a product in each of these categoriesbut they arguably made each [...]