So I picked up a friend’s iPhone the other day to play with it and saw the YouTube application that’s pre-installed. Interesting, I remember thinking at the time, but didn’t think much more about it. Until last week.
My wife and I don’t watch a lot of television. We don’t even have the basic cable package, [...]
Okay, I exaggerate a little. Okay, I exaggerate a lot. But the point should be well taken.
In essence, the PC was created in the late ’70s and by the early ’90s had two dominate operating systems. You either developed for Windows or Macintosh or both.
By all accounts the mobile world was created in the early [...]
I have suddenly seen a number of articles written about how our economy is fundamentally changing. Starting in the early 1900s, the U.S. led the industrial revolution, the making of things. For about 80 years, the industrial revolution was at the center of our economy.
In the 1980s, the advent of computers and the Internet, the [...]
My first exposure to mobile computing was through my father. In the mid-1990s, my dad started to use an Apple Newton along with a Macintosh calendaring program called NOW Up-To-Date to keep track of appointments, customer contact information and the like.
There weren’t a lot of people carrying these devices around, but my dad saw the utility. [...]
There has been a lot of talk lately about tablets and sub-notebooks. The Foleo, which I have discussed in this space before, is just one example. Nokia, Samsung and Sony have small computers (called ultra-mobile PCs or UMPCs). Now Apple is rumored to be developing a “tablet” as well.
There is and has always been a lot [...]
