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Is Apple Sneaking Into The Gaming Market?

November 7th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Business, Gadgets, Hardware, Technology, emerging markets, mobile phones

Gamers tend to fall into two categories…PC gamers and console gamers. For the PC, it’s basically just that…games on the PC. Yes, there are games available for the Mac but serious gamers shun the Mac as a gaming platform. On the console side we’re all familiar with the battles between the Microsoft’s XBox, Sony’s Playstation, […]

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The iPhone’s Rise to Greatness, Palm’s Fall From Grace

October 26th, 2008 · No Comments · Business, Business Practices, Gadgets, Hardware, Inventions, Rant, Rant, Technology, Wireless, mobile phones

Unless you’ve been living in a cave for the past two years you’ve undoubtedly heard of this iPhone thingy. Some computer company decides to make a phone. Mac fanboys everywhere have been speculating and drooling over the prospects of an Apple-created phone. Pundits everywhere dismissed the notion. Even after its release, it was met with […]

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Long Overdue Recap of Business & Technology Events

September 25th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Business, Gadgets, Inventions, Technology, Wireless, business ideas, entrepreneurs, mobile phones, start-ups

Business and technology moves abound. Yes, I know, it’s been a while since I’ve posted and there’s been quite a few things I wanted to comment on such as Google’s Chrome browser, Best Buy selling the Samsung Instinct, the iPhone vs Instinct debate, and of course T-Mobile’s Android-based phone called the G1.
So why have I […]

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Old Technologies Still Sticking Around

August 15th, 2008 · No Comments · Business, Gadgets, Inventions, Inventions, Technology, Websites, emerging markets, mobile phones

Even as new technologies continue to flood the marketplace signaling death for older technologies, some older technologies simply refuse to die. I was reminded of this recently as I read a release touting IBM Lotus would be available on mobile phones. Wow. And here I was thinking Lotus was going to die a slow death…continuing […]

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Still Frustrated With Sprint

April 7th, 2008 · No Comments · Business, Business Practices, Gadgets, Rant, Rant, Technology

Ok…I’m STILL frustrated with Sprint. I’ve been out of town for a bit and unfortunately haven’t been able to voice thse frustrations and give reasons why they frustrate me (while also clearing up some misconceptions and mistakes from previous posts. Can’t have the readers thinking I don’t know what I’m talking about..)
Frustration number one…the Samsung […]

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Sprint May Finally Be Getting It

April 1st, 2008 · 1 Comment · Business, Business Practices, Gadgets, Technology

So the CTIA show is going on now and all the wireless players are out there showing their goods. Normally I don’t pay much attention to this but when I saw Sprint talking about the Samsung Instinct (touted by many as a viable iPhone competitor) I couldn’t help but get giddy. Is Sprint finally getting […]

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Why Palm and Apple Annoy Me

March 26th, 2008 · No Comments · Business, Business Practices, Gadgets

I’ve got the Palm Treo 755p that I use on Sprint’s network. Perhaps you’ve seen me write about it in a previous post here. Sprint’s network is nice and fast and I’ve had no problems with it. I’d love to stay on with them. I also love my Treo. I’ve got loads of apps on […]

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Apple’s Genius Regarding the iPhone Roadmap

March 6th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Business, Business Practices, Gadgets, Hardware, Inventions, Inventions, Software, Technology

Apple released their roadmap for the iPhone today, talking about what they plan on doing with it, showing developers what they’ll be able to do with the SDK (it’ll be much better developing apps for the phone istself rather than the web browser), and my two favorite additions to iPhone functionality are 1) adding MS […]

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If Only Sprint and Palm Could Get Their Sh*t Together

January 28th, 2008 · No Comments · Business, Business Practices, Gadgets, Technology

A few months ago I was turned onto the Sprint SERO plan. 500 anytime minutes, nights and weekends start at 7:oo (instead of the usual 9:00 for Verizon and others), unlimited data (yes…unlimited), unlimited text messages (at least they had that when I signed up)…all for a mere $30. I was spending much more than that with […]

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