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Winkia rising

February 12, 2011

Why the part­ner­ship between Microsoft and Nokia is a major deal in the mobile landscape.

Apple: Same value, lower price?

October 14, 2008

In this entry, I ana­lyze the dif­fer­ences between the old Mac­Book Pro and the new Mac­Book, based on Steve Jobs’ announce­ment that it was the same func­tion­al­ity for $700 less. Some­times, one has to do the research to dis­cover whether some­thing is true or not.

Is Techmeme myopic?

June 2, 2008

I’m a big fan of Tech­Meme, a web aggre­ga­tion ser­vice that pro­vides, at a glance, a few of what’s being dis­cussed in the technology-focused part of the blo­gos­phere. It has allowed me to unsub­scribe from a large num­ber of RSS feeds that were pro­vid­ing me with redun­dant infor­ma­tion and I’ve long hoped for a ver­sion of Tech­Meme that would pro­vide me […]

MacBook Pro Comparison Charts

January 11, 2006

Today, Apple announced their first Intel based lap­top. This announce­ment pro­vides us with some inter­est­ing data that can be used to com­pare the exist­ing plat­form to its pre­de­ces­sor and to equiv­a­lent offer­ings from the PC world. Com­par­ing Apples to Apples One of the inter­est­ing thing is that Apple did not demise its exist­ing Power­book G4 product […]

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 […]

Why Apple should consider Wintel

November 19, 2004

Last week, two major events showed the decreas­ing power of the Oper­at­ing Sys­tem: the first one was the release of Fire­fox and the sec­ond was the release of Kon­fab­u­la­tor on the Win­dows plat­form. All this got me think­ing about how we relate to our oper­at­ing sys­tems and in par­tic­u­lar, about how I relate to the operating […]

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 […]

Microsoft Lock-in?

June 3, 2003

The recent announce­ment of a part­ner­ship between AOL Time Warner and Microsoft rep­re­sents an inter­est­ing new twist in the shap­ing of the Inter­net. For the past few years, Microsoft has been try­ing to fig­ure out how to remain rel­e­vant in an era of increas­ing open­ness. The rise of HTML and of HTTP as the under­ly­ing protocol […]

2000 Tech Politics

July 31, 2000

It’s elec­tion sea­son in the United States. This week, the Repub­li­can party is hold­ing its con­ven­tion, which will be fol­lowed by the democ­rats’ in the next cou­ple of week. But the big ques­tion to those of us who work in the Inter­net field has been, what do those guys stand for in terms of the […]

Transmeta Changes the Landscape

January 19, 2000

Mor­ph­ing soft­ware could allow com­puter chips to change based on soft­ware upgrades. A new com­pany, Trans­meta, enters the space and could rede­fine how chips are produced.