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 [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Inventions'
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
Tags: Apple·Apple iPhone·competition·iPhone·mobile market·mobile phones·Palm·Palm Treo·smart phones·smartphones
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 [...]
Tags: Android·economy·entrepreneurs·HTC G1·iPhone·iPhone apps·Palm·Palm Treo·Samsung Instinct·small business owner
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 [...]
Tags: cold fusion·IBM Lotus·mobile·new technologies·obsolete technologies·Old technologies
Wishing the U.S. Patent Office Wasn’t So Slow
August 4th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Business, Business Practices, Inventions, Inventions, Legislation, Other, Other, Rant, Rant, Technology, emerging markets, entrepreneurs, start-ups
We’ve heard over and over again how painfully slow the U.S. Patent Office is. I was reminded again today as I was copied on an email to a patent attorney regarding an application we sent in THREE YEARS AGO. What the hell? This wasn’t even a very complex product that we are dealing with here. [...]
Tags: competitive advantage·Inventions·losing competitive advantage·patent·Patent Office·patent reform·USPTO
ZapMedia Sues Apple…But Who is ZapMedia?
March 13th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Business, Business Practices, Inventions, Software, Technology
So ZapMedia Services, an Atlanta based company is suing Apple over alleged patent infringements regarding iTunes and the iPod. Now, maybe there is or is not a case…that remains to be seen. However, I can’t help but be a little sceptical when I try to get some information on ZapMedia Services (hey, I’m in Atlanta, [...]
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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 [...]
