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Kindle Mania Overtakes America
The Kindle 2 was indeed unveiled on February 9th as “rumored.” (What do you call a supposed rumor that everyone already knows? A “deliberate leak” perhaps.) Ship date is February 24th, just in time for...
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The Biggest Threat to Windows is Netbooks
Two very interesting blogs/articles on ZDNet cover a fascinating story from slightly different angles. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes points out something that I never imagined happening in my lifetime: The...
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Amazon Kindle in Shotgun Wedding with Apple iPhone/iPod
Well, you hardly need my blog to bring you the big news that you can now Kindle your iPhone. It’s all over the place. Should you have missed the news, here’s the New York Times report, as comprehensive...
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Brushes on the iPhone Has Changed my Life
There’s something truly magical when you discover a phenomena that could be judged as very technologically small and yet becomes something very big (in the “real world”). Such an incident has occurred...
View ArticleDo I Love Books or Do I Love Reading?
“Do I love books or do I love reading?” is the question posed by Ann Kirshner in her thoughtful and well-written article on The Chronicle of Higher Education web site. Kirshner writes: “When my book...
View ArticleSteve Jobs, The Economist and I All Agree!
I’ve been preaching ad nauseum that a dedicated eBook reader just doesn’t add up. In Thad’s The Laws of the Future of Publishing I’ve often quoted law #19: “There is a limit to the number of separate...
View ArticleSmartphones and Tablets Could Doom Netbooks
Above is the headline in a tiny article in today’s New York Times. I reference it because it states what I believe to be true: “Stuck between the still-evolving smartphone and the emerging tablet...
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New iPad is a Large iPhone
…except that you can’t use it as a phone (not out of the box, at any rate). The iPhone Gains Weight; Becomes Deaf And it’s not really a computer, because it runs on the iPhone OS. So yes, as Steve Jobs...
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The Apple iPad: Push or Pull?
When we evaluate new technology I believe that the key equation is “push or pull.” It is the rare new technology product released to the public where the reaction is an immediate: “I want that.” I...
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Apple’s Midsummer Nightmare
The release of Apple’s iPhone 4G has become a midsummer blockbuster. No vampires — just out of control electronics, deceitful software, and scary artificial limbs. It started as a winner… But a problem...
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