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- The Mountain Lion Experience by Chris
- WWDC 2012: The Train Keeps on Rollin' by Tarun
- From iOS to Windows Phone: Act 3 (The Verdict) by Tarun
- From iOS to Windows Phone: Act 2 (The Experience) by Tarun
- From iOS to Windows Phone: Act 1 (The Motive) by Tarun
- A Month With Metro for Xbox 360 by Chris
- 2012 by Tarun
- Redefining Reading and Sharing: Flipboard for iPhone by Tarun
- Dropping Their Guard by Tarun
- Design Unification with Google Apps by Tarun
Podcasts
- Weekly Download #38: Google I/O, Podcasts.app, Mansfield
- Weekly Download #37: WWDC, Microsoft Surface, Windows Phone 8
- Weekly Download #36: Nokia's Abysmal Quarter, More on Instagram, Sony, Nest, Apple & Gaming, Patents
- Weekly Download #35: RIM, IE, iPad, Lumia and Windows Phone 7.5
- Weekly Download #34: Windows Phone, Google, RIM
- Weekly Download #33: the New iPad, Apple TV, Draw Something, Mike Daisey
- Weekly Download #32: Apple "New iPad" Press Conference Event
- Weekly Download #31: iPad 3, Google Goggles, T-Mobile, Facebook, iFactory, Chomp, Microsoft, Nokia, Siri
- Weekly Download #30: Mountain Lion, iPads, Browser Cookies, Nook, Playbooks, Blackberry
- Weekly Download #29: iPad 3, Apple TV, Patent Uselessness, Facebook, Bing & Social, Google's Living Room
Category Archives: Research
Link: How Bad Is A 256MB Windows Phone? →
Rafe Blandford, reporting for “All About Windows Phone,” reveals stats on applications in the WP7 Tango marketplace and the compatibility with phones that have 256MB of RAM (Lumia 610 being the most important): However, if we look at the 10,000 … Continue reading
Posted in Design, Microsoft, Mobile, Research, Windows Phone
Tagged lumia, ux, windowsphone
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Link: Internet Explorer Strikes Back →
IE is making a slight comeback with a .99% gain last month. This may sound pathetically minuscule, but the amount is almost enough to recoup their losses that they experienced over the past year. The chart also shows Firefox’s continual … Continue reading
Link: People Really Like the iPad →
ChangeWave Research reports that 98% of iPad customers are satisfied with their device. The biggest reason? The retina display.
Link: Ads Based on Environment →
Creepy and annoying. (via Jim Dalrymple)
Link: All About the Milliseconds →
Microsoft Applied Sciences Group shows how current tablet technology still has a few years before it gets to the point of actually feeling like you are painting with your finger.
Link: Why Lytro Could Succeed →
Interesting perspective from David Cardinal on ExtremeTech: By launching a direct-to-consumer camera Lytro has leapt ahead of all its potential competitors for the race to become king of light field and computational photography, but that strategy can backfire if limitations … Continue reading
Weekly Download #31: iPad 3, Google Goggles, T-Mobile, Facebook, iFactory, Chomp, Microsoft, Nokia, Siri
Big big show kicks off with the iPad 3 Apple Event announcement; Google’s Glasses/Goggles product development; T-Mobile whining about poor earnings; Facebook interleaving ads in your news feed; the ABC News piece on Apple factories; Apple’s acquisition of Chomp; Microsoft … Continue reading
Link: Google Goggles →
It was about time that the software available on Android and the Google ecosystem starting to propagate beyond the phone. A scoop by Nick Bilton for the NY Times: The glasses will send data to the cloud and then use … Continue reading
Weekly Download #30: Mountain Lion, iPads, Browser Cookies, Nook, Playbooks, Blackberry
At the crack of dawn, Apple surprisingly announces Mountain Lion for developer preview. We cover the implications of the next OS, including what it means to be iOS-ified. We also discuss iPad sales; cookies being exploited, Nook/Playbook/Tablet B-lists, and the … Continue reading
Link: How Third-Parties Exploited Safari Cookie Handling via Ads →
Safari contains third-party blocks for cookies across all the OSs that it runs on; however, Google needed to leave a cookie on the device in order to preserve +1 analytics. Their solution is quite devious, and dare I say — … Continue reading
Link: Consoles Becoming Streaming Media Hubs →
Engadget picks this up from a recent Nielsen report on game console usage for 13+ years of age: …gamers this year spent notably more time streaming video to their consoles than they did in 2010, due in large part to … Continue reading
Weekly Download #23: Carrier IQ, Facebook and Gowalla, Windows Phone, Apple TV, Women and Tech Jobs
Tarun has a mild cough, but that doesn’t stop him from recording another episode! The usual suspects discuss the recent developments of the Carrier IQ logging scandal; Facebook acquiring Gowalla; the HTML5 Windows Phone mobile demo; Samsung’s flexible AMOLED displays; … Continue reading
Link: Tablet shipments surpass Netbooks →
Jeff Orr, group director of mobile devices at ABI Research: This is a trend that we do not expect will reverse… As they are different segments, this is not a direct replacement behavior, but a changing of leadership for the … Continue reading
Link: Touch Everywhere →
From Microsoft, a new technology that allows people to use any surface (including one’s hands) for touch input.
Link: Digital Traffic Metrics from Smartphones and Tablets →
comScore, who reports numerous statistics on digital media and consumption metrics, has released the latest on smartphones and tablets. iPads top the charts, especially in overall tablet traffic: In August 2011, iPads delivered 97.2 percent of all tablet traffic in … Continue reading
Link: More to Moore’s Law →
Not only does PC performance double every 18 months, but the electrical efficiency of computers has also doubled in the same amount of time. From Dr. Jonathan Koomey, Stanford: That means that for a fixed amount of computational power, the … Continue reading
Link: IBM Manufactures “Brain-Like” Chips →
Like the brain, IBM’s prototype chips can dynamically rewire to sense, understand and act on information fed via sight, hearing, taste, smell and touch, or through other sources such as weather and water-supply monitors. The chips will help discover patterns … Continue reading
Link: Revisiting Milgram’s Thought Experiment →
With the advent of Facebook and faster communication, it makes sense that the number of steps has decreased since Milgram’s original conjecture. I personally picked up someone from Budapest, but I instantly knew who to contact that may lead to … Continue reading
Link: Wireless Charging Demo →
This is the wireless charging concept previously patented by Apple a month ago. The company created a demo video using an iMac charging a keyboard, mouse and tablet simultaneously.
Weekly Download #7: Facebook and Design, Robots, Technology and Intelligence, Bing, Zune, Apple TV
This week’s show is a day early because of a certain concert that a certain co-host is attending. We talk Facebook and their recent efforts to beef up their design team; robots taking over the world; technology and its correlation … Continue reading
Link: State of the Internet →
I am absolutely in love with infographics like these. It is especially awesome that this page uses no Flash. Here’s one statistic I was shocked to learn: While the Internet has an amazing reach, it still has room to grow. … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Research
Tagged infographic, interactive, internet
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Link: Browser Usage and IQ →
Opera and Camino users scored the highest. But here’s the kicker: There was a clear indication from the date that the subjects using any version of Internet Explorer ranked significantly lower on an average than others. Of course, if IE … Continue reading
Link: WLAN via LED Lighting →
The overall appeal is obvious: the lights can apparently be modified to suit networking at little cost and with only minor adjustment, and can be used in places where traditional radio or wired networking is less feasible, such as in … Continue reading
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Tagged lightbulbs, networking, wlan
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Link: Poor memory? Blame Google →
The actual article is behind a paywall via Science, but this quote was particularly telling: Just as we learn through transactive memory who knows what in our families and offices, we are learning what the computer ‘knows’ and when we … Continue reading