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- 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
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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
Author Archives: Tarun
Weekly Download #11: Tablets and the iPad, Future of HP & Motorola, Facebook’s Privacy, More iPhone Carriers, Lift, Torrenting, Cookies
It’s another Weekly Download with your favorite hosts, Tarun Gangwani and Chris Robbins. This follows #10 which covered Steve Jobs’ resignation. Chris and Tarun discuss Apple’s tablet incumbency and what makes a good mobile computer; the futures of Motorola and … Continue reading
Posted in Apple, Business, Design, Facebook, Google, HP, Mobile, News, Podcast, Social Networking, Twitter, WebOS
Tagged podcast, tablets, wd
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Weekly Download #10: Steve Jobs Steps Down
On this special edition (patch) of Weekly Download, Tarun and Chris talk about the resignation of Steve Jobs and his new position as Chairman of the Board. Is Apple doomed in the next few years? Who is Tim Cook? Tarun … Continue reading
A New Era
Tarun thinks Apple isn’t doomed and Steve Jobs’ legacy will continue to live on for the next few years. Continue reading
Link: Lift →
When you arrive at the floor you are supposed to be on, if you hit the button for that floor at the same time, you get a peice of cheese. Right?
Link: An Overview of Facebook’s New Privacy Features →
Look familiar?
Link: Six Improvements to Google+ →
The first improvement Casey has mentioned is main-stream filtering, which I believe should go deeper than circles — specific people should also be filterable. Perhaps I could put that person in a circle, and then filter them out, but on-the-fly … Continue reading
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Tagged ars, googleplus, improvements
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Link: A Simple Explanation →
John Gruber: Honestly, we all should have seen this coming. You don’t bring in an enterprise consulting guy to turn around a PC and device maker. You bring in an enterprise consulting guy to turn a PC and device maker … Continue reading
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Tagged enterprise, HP, touchpad
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From The Apple Cookbook: A Recipe for Tablet Makers
What makes the iPad the hottest selling tablet (and PC in general)? Tarun discusses the recipe of the iPad and how this is just one product in Apple’s giant cookbook of products that have yet to come. Continue reading
Link: Encouraging Torrenting →
Dan Frommer points out a post about the number of illegal downloads have surged since Fox has decided to pull their top rated shows from viewers online, unless they authenticate with a Dish Network account. I have had personal experience … Continue reading
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Tagged fox, piracy, streaming
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Link: Who can challenge Apple? →
Good summary from Reuters on the current state of the tablet space. The clear message comes from analyst Mark Gerber: The non-iPad tablets just won’t sell at retail. That’s the clear message from events over the past few days. I … Continue reading
Link: HP’s Decade-Long Departure →
The great Horace Deidu, on how HP and other computing giants missed the wave of mobile growth a decade ago: But that’s the nature of unforeseeable growth: you cannot foresee what will happen and plans never work out. Data and … Continue reading
Weekly Download #9: HP and WebOS, Google and Motorola, iPad, 3G MacBooks, Privacy, Milgram
They are making a sequel to WHAT? Chris and Tarun talk about HPs flailing around in big boy territory; Google’s questionable pickup of Motorola; delays in iPad shipments, MacBooks with cellular power; a 13 year old’s privacy issues; a reinventing … Continue reading
Link: HP Kills WebOS Hardware (TouchPad, Pre) →
The plot thickens: Earlier today, HP said they want to split their software and hardware business, and now they want nothing to do with WebOS hardware. This is on the heels of another quote from HP, stating that they want … Continue reading
Link: What Is The Future Of PCs? →
Some cool insights gathered by SAI on the question. Personally, the “PC” is an increasingly evolving term, so the question may be framed incorrectly. Rather, we should be asking, “What will the term PC mean in x years?”
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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: Google+ “Has No Users” →
Good points on the virtual gaming impact on the economy, and more importantly a valid conclusion from a financial analyst: But according to Owyang, both services have their work cut out for them. Google+ is off to a good start, … Continue reading
Link: Best Buy wants HP to Buy Tablets Back →
Prepare for a massive fire sale, if this keeps up: According to one source who’s seen internal HP reports, Best Buy has taken delivery of 270,000 TouchPads and has so far managed to sell only 25,000, or less than 10 … Continue reading
Link: HP Everywhere →
The only company that makes an OS that isn’t trying to port it “everywhere” is Apple.
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: Pushing Back →
Three reasons why Apple is delaying the iPad other than retina display yield issues: The window for shipping the iPad 2 has just become 24 hours. It is unlikely that the hottest selling tablet would need an update in 2 months, … Continue reading
Weekly Download #8: Patent Bonanza, TouchPad, Nintendo, Ultrabooks, Wal-Mart, E-Books
Chris and Tarun discuss the recent wave of opinions about patents; The TouchPad’s continued slashing of prices (and desirability); Nintendo’s inane refusal to develop for the App Store; Apple’s slam on Intel to produce low-powered chips for Ultrabooks; Wal-Mart closing … Continue reading
Link: Pressure →
Intel Corp. said its investment arm is allocating $300 million to help encourage innovation around a breed of ultra-thin portable PCs that the chip maker calls Ultrabooks… …Welch said Apple informed Intel that it better drastically slash its power consumption … Continue reading
Link: Scot Free →
Recall that the iPhone 4 prototype was first found by one person, given to another person, and then given to Gizmodo. Gizmodo was determined to have committed no crime, while the other two will be charged with counts of lost or … Continue reading
Link: E-Book Pricing Fixed by Publishers and Apple →
Matthew Lasar: This action sees Apple and Amazon as adversaries, the former forcing the latter’s hand. The accusation is that the publishers and Apple fixed prices via two means. First, the publishers embraced an “agency model” arrangement with Apple in … Continue reading
Link: David & Goliath →
After eight years in business, the Walmart Music Downloads Store located at mp3.walmart.com will close on August 28, 2011. All content in the Store will be disabled and no longer available for download from the store. (via Engadget)