Features
- 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
Author Archives: Tarun
Link: Foxconn to Replace a Portion of its Workers with 1 Million Robots →
Fixing poor working conditions with machines that can’t feel. Interesting.
Link: Apple Has More Cash than the USA →
A little over a decade ago, Apple was crawling on its knees. Now: According to the latest statement from the U.S. Treasury, the government had an operating cash balance Wednesday of $73.8 billion. That’s still a lot of money, but … Continue reading
Weekly Download #6: MacBook Airs, Replacing Steve Jobs, 3D Tech, Google+, Sprint, Politics
If you want to get to the meaty stuff, you’ll want to skip the first 5 minutes–Tarun did not know that a certain food-service company went public, so his mind was blown. We discuss the new MacBook Airs; who could … Continue reading
Link: A Failure to Innovate →
Hey Sprint — at least RIM is being honest.
Link: Sprint in a New Direction →
Sprint is the only major carrier without the iPhone (if you exclude T-Mobile, who may be bought by AT&T). This means that their low sales can be attributed to not having the iPhone… right? Wrong. Sprint lost their luster long … Continue reading
Link: Filed Under “Saw This Coming” →
For reference, iSuppli noted the manufacturing cost of a 3DS: $103.25.
Link: How to Keep People Engaged with Google+ →
Google+ is surging with users, but the service is lacking some key features to keep users engaged. Tarun talks about three main features that Google could implement to make the new social network “sticky”. Continue reading
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Link: Reflections on Privacy →
Jaimie Murdock: My ideal publishing model wouldn’t be about circles of people, but streams of tagged content. If there existed a service where you could follow a person, but mute certain content streams (such as local events, politics, etc.), we’d … Continue reading
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Tagged googleplus, privacy, socialmedia
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Link: EA: Our Fastest Growing Platform Is the iPad →
John Riccitiello, EA CEO: Consoles used to be 80% of the industry as recently as 2000. Consoles today are 40% of the game industry, so what do we really have? We have a new hardware platform and we’re putting out … Continue reading
Link: Mobage →
Mobage sounds like the complete package to get Games onto Android with ease. They provide: An SDK to develop the games An API to connect social media to your game A service to deploy your game to Android Sounds like … Continue reading
Link: How Low Can You Go? →
Mel Martin poses a question: [I]f you don’t have an iPad yet, would a cheaper tablet from Apple get you to the Apple Store? And if not, would an Android tablet and $250-$300 tempt you to try one? If I … Continue reading
Link: Cannibals →
Horace Dediu graphs the cannibalization that the iPad has on the Mac, but notes that the Mac market is still growing 7.5 times the rate of Windows PCs. The numbers show that the iPad is becoming the new standard for … Continue reading
Link: Amazon Suspends Sales of Nintendo 3DS →
I tried out the 3DS for the first time, and I agree to the ratings on the Amazon site. It is incredibly painful to look at in 3D. So, the price is unjustifiable if I just want the 2D options, … Continue reading
Link: What is Microsoft’s “single ecosystem”? →
As the article points out, you can’t expect unification simply out of having a consistent UI. The underlying operating system and chip architecture are a couple of other things to think about. Apple has just now developed a consistent UI … Continue reading
Link: RIM to Cut 2,000 Jobs →
One of the C’s is gone, too. RIM has not lost its foothold in the enterprise business, but the consumer business has decayed due to pressure from Apple and Google.
Link: Lynda.com →
Shout out to a great service used at Indiana University. The software training they provide is unmatched. The app is a great solution for mobile training, too.
Link: No Drama Replacement →
John Gruber: Everyone wants this to be an interesting story, but it’s not. There is no intrigue. If Jobs steps down in the foreseeable future his replacement will almost certainly be Tim Cook. Boring, but true. I like the thoughts … Continue reading
Link: Siri Surfaces →
I love the idea of a personal assistant, but speech recognition technology is not sophisticated enough. A real assistant would be able to recognize context with the thought stream you convey. Siri does a decent job at this, but the … Continue reading
Weekly Download #5: Borders and E-Books, Apple Earnings, Smartphones, Intel
Borders bites the dust (maybe inevitably), Apple posts a phenomenal quarter because of great smart phone sales, and Intel is sadly struggling because they haven’t gotten into that smartphone space as effectively. This show could be sponsored by you – … Continue reading
Link: A View From The Top →
Erik Slivka, Macrumors: Samsung and HTC lead the Android pack and have experienced very strong growth, but each company’s smartphone shipments remains about half that of Apple’s. People vote with their wallets.
Link: Softness In Mature Markets →
Intel is reporting a a smaller growth in shipment from before. The main reason?: Intel’s processors are used in 80 percent of the world’s PCs, but mobile devices from Apple Inc’s iPad to Google Inc Android smartphones are eating into … Continue reading
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Key Remarks from Siracusa’s Review of 10.7
Siracusa’s brilliant review is not for the faint hearted. Luckily, Tarun has broken it down page by page so you can wrap your mind around some of the highlight’s of the newest Mac OS, 10.7 or Lion. Continue reading
Link: MacBook Airs Become Everyday Machines →
With 4GB standard and a multi-threaded processor, the MacBook Air has replaced the bottom end of the Apple laptop line. Not a bad bottom end, either.
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Link: 27,000 Words As An E-Book →
John Siracusa’s review of Lion is available as an e-book for $4.99. Peter Cohen provides some perspective.
Link: One-Click Twitter Shopping →
Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry, via SAI: A commercial offer on Twitter wouldn’t be a pitch followed by a link, it would be a pitch followed by a “click to buy” button. Click once. BOOM. You’ve bought it. Twitter’s chairman and product leader, … Continue reading