Disruption - I love it.

Thursday, January 8th, 2009

It's estimated that apple sold nearly 20 million iphones at the end of 08 . Why is that amazing? A little perspective... This rivals the total number of blackberry users, only Apple did it in 18 months on "1" carrier, with only two generations of devices. No related posts.

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LG’s new watch phone - any takers?

Thursday, January 8th, 2009

Other than the fact that you need to wear a bluetooth headset 24/7 to answer calls, and you can't really browse the web too well, this is pretty cool! No related posts.

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UIQ dead

Monday, January 5th, 2009

I read today that UIQ is filing for bankruptcy. I used this platform for many years on the P900, P910 by SonyEricsson.  It was the most advanced touch screen smartphone available at that time in my opinion. Maybe they were too early to market, or embedded on only extremely expensive devices ...

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iTunes remote control on the G1 - Gmote

Friday, December 5th, 2008

If you want to use your G1 as a remote control for your itunes music download Gmote - it's perfect! Takes 1 minute to setup. As good as the iPhone remote  That was the coolest feature of my iphone... more proof of the power behind third party development ;) Why ...

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A video taken with my stolen iPhone - qik

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

Update: QIK is cooperating to find out more about the stream. Street level view, address, etc. Thank u google and qik. Here is a video taken by the people who stole my iphone (or the people who purchased it from them). They finally re-activated it and figured out how to ...

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My new G1 Google Phone

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008

 Update:It's a negative. There's only one port on the device for headset/charge/usb. This means I can't keep my phone charging and use a wired headset for long conference calls. argg! (BTW I don't like the bluetooth headsets b/c the battery is always dead - I forget to charge it.) Yesterday ...

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Google infuence vs. domination

Friday, September 5th, 2008

There is speculation that Google's new Chrome browser is the Microsoft IE killer, or will slowly be the demise of Firefox. It's pretty much been the headline news in the tech world this week. Here's some food for thought. Google only has one profitable product, and that's adsense.  They exist for ...

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Still glad I don’t own an iPhone

Friday, July 11th, 2008

Here's another good one. Not by me. Here is "my" experience today: 1. I waited 3 hours in line this morning (and as we know I am not THAT guy). I kinda of expected this so not so bad. Irritating by afterall I made the decision to get it day 1. 2. ...

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Mobile = software not hardware

Monday, June 30th, 2008

People love talking about Microsoft vs. Google. How is Microsoft going to stop Google? Google is going to push Microsoft out of the enterprise...etc. Why is no one talking about the equally important battle of Nokia vs. Google? These two giants are battling a silent war that is flying under the radar, ...

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Farewell to SMobile

Saturday, April 19th, 2008

For those of you who haven't heard, I am stepping out of SMobile after an exciting 6 years. I truly enjoyed my time there, and watching it grow from concept to a successful business was an amazing experience. I met so many great people and had the pleasure to work ...

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My Q&A on TMCnet

Friday, February 29th, 2008

TMCnet just ran my Q&A segment as a featured mobile communications article. You can read it here. What a busy week! I am finally catching up. No related posts.

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Qik is cool

Wednesday, February 6th, 2008

I just loaded Qik onto my phone, and can now live stream any video from my device right to the web. It's already integrated with Twitter and Seesmic, and I'm sure much more to come. What a great tool for real-time on the go video. No need to do an ...

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Garmin going mobile. iPhone winning design?

Saturday, February 2nd, 2008

 It seems lately there quite a few companies "knocking off' the iPhone design. See the image below of the new "Nuvifone" by Garmin. We've seen this design from HTC and others too. The question is, will they include the multi-touch technology that powers the iPhone, and that I believe we ...

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Nokia becoming a software company

Monday, January 28th, 2008

Yet another sign that Nokia is becoming a software company. Fully prepared to compete (and compete very well!) with Google entering the mobile software space. They agree to purchase Trolltech for $150m. The point: Nokia is taking its software to other devices and even desktop computers. You will see Nokia ...

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Inside the Googleplex

Friday, January 25th, 2008

I spent last night at Google's HQ in Mountain View, mingling with a room full of SUPER SMART engineers, product managers, business owners, and "googlers." I was amazed at the amount of innovation in the room. There were probably 50 people (all developing applications for the Google Mobile Platform, Android. ...

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