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July 23, 2008

The Telcos’ Salad Days Are Over, but They Still Have a Lot on Their Plates

The details are interesting, but there isn’t anything conceptually new in this New York Times piece anticipating AT&T and Verizon quarterly reports. Indeed, the tale already is getting a bit old: Landlines are fading antique curios and the cellular market is saturated. To survive, phone companies must move aggressively with fiber, 3G and 4G wireless […]

e-Paper Tigers

To those who don’t follow the sector too closely, the terms paper and convergence probably seem as compatible as Felix and Oscar (or, to younger readers, Kevin and Britney). But both young and old would be wrong. For years, there has been a small e-paper segment.
That segment is about to get a big boost. Esquire […]

July 22, 2008

The Promising Future of Laptop SSDs

Solid state drives (SSDs), a storage technology in which nonmoving elements replace revolving platters, are carving out a niche in the computer world. Most recently, SSDs are gaining in the laptop sector.
This piece looks at the pros and cons of using SSDs in laptops. David Strom begins by noting that Apple, Lenovo, Toshiba and Dell […]

July 21, 2008

The iPhone 3G Wants to Get a Job

The question of whether the iPhone will make a play for the enterprise has been answered. The launch earlier this month of iPhone 3G business applications at the App Store is a clear indication that Apple is pushing hard to create an enterprise presence.
Apple is licensing ActiveSync from Microsoft, according to this Internet News piece. […]

July 16, 2008

Trouble Among the Androids

The Google-led Android project is facing a sticky situation with developers, who are angry about apparent favoritism being shown to some developers. This is the latest twist in the road in what is becoming a difficult birth.
Network World reports that developers have not gotten an update to the buggy software developers kit (SDK) used to […]

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