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No Changes in Mobile

June 24, 2008

Today’s announce­ment by Nokia that it would acquire all of Sym­bian rep­re­sents an impor­tant move in the upcom­ing bat­tle for next gen­er­a­tion mobile devices (to call them phone seems unfair as they tend to do more than just make calls). In this entry, I’ll take a quick look at how the dif­fer­ent play­ers are cur­rently approaching […]

iPhone 2: More than meets the eye

June 11, 2008

There has been much writ­ten about Steve Jobs’ keynote on Mon­day, intro­duc­ing a new ver­sion of the iPhone, a rebranded ver­sion of .mac, and a new ver­sion of the OSX Oper­at­ing Sys­tem. How­ever, amid all the praises, there seems to have been a few items miss­ing from the dis­cus­sion. iPhone: 3G OK but not every­where As expected, Apple did […]

Palm responds, Part 2

January 12, 2008

In part 2 of a 2 part inter­view, John Moses, global Vice Pres­i­dent of Cus­tomer Sup­port for Palm, answers ques­tions about Palm’s unit replace­ment pro­gram and about other issues relat­ing to Palm’s tech­ni­cal support.

The iPhone is here

January 9, 2007

So it’s offi­cial: Apple now is a phone man­u­fac­turer. With the announce­ment of the Apple iPhone, we can now finally assess that new prod­uct and I have to say, color me impressed. The com­pany has man­aged to over­come a lot of the prob­lems sur­round­ing exist­ing mobile phones and cre­ated a device that is close to what geeks like myself […]

Apple Aims for the Living Room

September 12, 2006

Apple launches a frontal attack on your liv­ing room.

RSS and Media: Can’t we all just get along?

June 29, 2005

I keep try­ing to work on an entry to close the loop on the search engine and links research but RSS news is get­ting in the way. Last week, it was Microsoft’s wel­come endorse­ment and a new set of exten­sions and this week, it’s Apple and its announce­ment of a new spec­i­fi­ca­tion to add more data to […]

Apple moves to Intel

June 6, 2005

So we can finally put an end to the rumors and start look­ing at the impact: Apple, in a move that has been rumored for a long time, has announced that it would start using Intel proces­sors begin­ning in 2006. The 5-years out­look The inter­est­ing thing is the tim­ing of the move, a bit over 10 years from the […]

MacWorld 2004: What was NOT said

January 6, 2004

Every year, mac users await announce­ment of excit­ing new soft­ware and hard­ware prod­uct. Last year, Steve Jobs impressed the com­put­ing indus­try by unveil­ing a cou­ple of new lap­tops (the 12 and 17 inch Power­Books) and offer­ing a truck­load of new soft­ware pack­ages. This year’s keynote, how­ever, was more sig­nif­i­cant for what was not said that what was. Much […]

Digital Assets

November 4, 2003

The recent fights of the music indus­try remind me a lot about the early days of the per­sonal com­puter indus­try. While I was still a kid then, it seems the soft­ware indus­try went through a sim­i­lar expe­ri­ence in terms of try­ing to fig­ure out how to deal with piracy. In this entry, I exam­ine what I con­sider to be the four […]

Apple: Cross Platform DRM

October 16, 2003

As pre­dicted, Apple intro­duced a ver­sion of iTunes for win­dows today. A lot will be writ­ten about how this solid­i­fies Apple’s lead in the dig­i­tal music player mar­ket but what many may be over­look­ing is how Apple is push­ing its own ver­sion of Dig­i­tal Rights Man­age­ment into a wider mar­ket. I sus­pect this is a strat­egy sim­i­lar to the one […]