iOS

Bing and Blackberry: Friends Forever!

May 4, 2011

How does it go? The enemy of my enemy is my friend? Two drunks trying to hold each other up? I don’t know. But Microsoft (MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer announced at the BlackberryWorld conference that Bing would become the default search engine on Research In Motion’s (RIMM) Blackberry devices. This isn’t terribly exciting news for either [...]

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iPhone, Android Still Rule While BlackBerry Falters

April 29, 2011

Just a heads up! I have a new article up at Minyanville discussing yesterday’s vital smartphone-industry news. Here’s an excerpt: On February 7th, IDC reported that smartphone shipments surpassed PC shipments for the fourth quarter of 2011, marking an important first for the mobile-computing industry. Then in late March, IDC said it expected the smartphone market to [...]

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iOS + Snow Leopard = Mac OS X Lion

October 20, 2010

Okay, so Apple (AAPL) didn’t actually put iOS in the new Macbook Air. It did the next best thing – it married iOS with Snow Leopard and turned it into Mac OS X Lion! We don’t have all the details on OS X Lion just yet, but we do know that it getting some iPad-style [...]

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Verizon to Sell Samsung Galaxy

October 20, 2010

The Apple (AAPL) iPad won’t be the only tablet computer that Verizon (VZ) pushes. Verizon Wireless said today that it will being selling the Samsung Galaxy tablet on November 11th for $600. This does not bode well for the Galaxy. The entry-level iPad sells for just $500, and has a much bigger and thus more-impressive [...]

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Prediction: New Apple Macbook Air Will Run iOS

October 20, 2010

Okay, okay, Apple’s (AAPL) Mac event where it is widely expected to unveil a new Macbook Air is just a few hours away, but I wanted to get my prediction in. I think the new Macbook Air is going to run iOS, the operating system powering the iPad and iPhone 4. Think about this. The [...]

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MorphWiz: Another Reason the iPad Rules

September 27, 2010

I must make a confession: I have iPad envy. I was a major iPad cynic before release, but once I picked one up, everything changed. The iPad is more beautifully-designed and easy to use than any non-Apple (AAPL) computer on the market, and now we’re starting to see developers create Apps that are 10X cooler [...]

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This is Why the iPad Rules

September 25, 2010

I said it once and I’ll say it again: if you haven’t picked up an Apple (AAPL) iPad and played with it, then you really don’t get it. In the above video, you’ll see a 4-year old boy having a blast playing with an iPad. I can’t imagine a better demonstration of just how easy [...]

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