July 22, 2014
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Last week, Mark Taylor, VP of Content and Media at Level 3, a global tier 1 business and consumer Internet provider, accused Verizon of deliberately slowing down Netflix videos. Those are fighting words!
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July 22, 2014
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Believe it or not, only four years ago Nokia — poor, dying Nokia — was the No. 1 mobile phone company in the world. Since then, it was bought by Microsoft, which last week announced that it’s firing half of Nokia’s workforce. So tell me, what exactly was the point of that $7.2 billion acquisition just over a year ago?
July 21, 2014
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Some people still pooh-pooh the idea that Chromebooks could ever come close to challenging Windows PCs. NPD’s latest laptop sales numbers say otherwise. Chromebook sales are zooming upward, while Windows laptop sales are stagnant.
July 17, 2014
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So Apple and IBM are hooking up. It’s a match made in enterprise heaven, bringing together BYOD favorites the iPhone and the iPad with enterprise apps and cloud services from IBM. It’s a win for Apple, which finally gets some serious business software chops, and for IBM, which gets device sex appeal.
June 19, 2014
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HP wants to blow your minds with what’s in its development pipeline. The Machine, it says, will introduce a new kind of system architecture that will use memristors and silicon photonics to “replace a data center‘s worth of equipment with a single refrigerator-sized machine.” It will be able to address 160 petabytes of data in 250 nanoseconds. It will pump up to 100 terabytes of storage into a single Android phone.
Whoa! Mind blown!
I mean, you have to admit that the Machine sounds like the best thing to hit technology since John Bardeen, Walter Brattain and William Shockley dreamed up the transistor. It will change everything.
If it ever materializes.
June 12, 2014
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Oh, come on! Are you serious, Microsoft? As late as April 2014, you were promising us the return of the Start menu to Windows 8. But it’s not included in Windows 8.1 Update 2, which we expect to show up in August. In fact, it now looks like you aren’t going to give us a Start menu until Threshold, a.k.a. Windows 9 shows up. That will be sometime next year! And Windows 9 certainly is not Windows 8.
You have got to be kidding me!
Look, Microsoft, I’m willing to acknowledge when you do things right. You’ve finally made the desktop the default interface with Windows 8.1 Update 1 instead of the hot mess that’s Metro/Modern. But come on! We want our freaking Start menu!
Give us the Windows 8 Start menu and no one will get hurt. More>