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Technology is advancing at such a rate that the barriers to entry for so many industries are dropping to a point where they are nearly negligible. What does this mean? It means that anyone with a good idea and the balls to actually go for something big (or just the time and talent to go [...]

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The iPad is out and there are plenty of nay-sayers out there bemoaning the fact it doesn’t do this or it doesn’t have that. Many predict that this will be the product that sinks Apple’s boat (how they figure that is beyond me. Isn’t Apple now worth more than Wal-Mart?) and have a whole slew [...]

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Get your iPad review here. That’s right folks! Read what a “normal” consumer thinks (rather than the journalists or other reviewers who have no clue what the common folk think) after one day with his new device. Some background on the reviewer (it’s not me). He’s an artist/illustrator. The man, the reviewer, the Spencer Lindsay [...]

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I’ve got some iPad predictions for you. I know, I know, why don’t I just go ahead and jump on the iPad bandwagon like everyone else? Hell, this post will probably get lost in the bazillion iPad articles out there already but at least the loyal readers of Chia Town will get to ponder the [...]

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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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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. [...]

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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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