Category Gadget

taking the plunge and testing how well the ipad performs during a business trip

ok i have had my ipad now for a couple of weeks, but the key test came last week. i had to go on a three day business trip to phoenix where i had to give a presentation and meet with some clients to walk them through some research. in the past i would either [...]

what is it with the question “will the ipad replace laptops”?

everyone out there seems to ask the question if the ipad will replace laptops or not. that question is not completely the right question to ask. there are two types of laptop users.

laptop is the secondary computer for the road
laptop is the main computer, more or less a desktop replacement

for those users in group one [...]

since when is forrester competing with pogue or gizmodo?

i don’t know if it is just an attempt to jump on the ipad bandwagon or if forrester research actually tries to compete with the likes of nyt tech writer pogue or the fine folks over at gizmodo. but to my big surprise i today saw a forrester bannered piece on paidcontent.org, written by a [...]

putting on a skeptics hat when looking at those admob numbers predicting doom for the iphone

ok, so if there was one graph that made the rounds the last couple of days, it must have been this one:
admob’s US mobile OS traffic shares. the graph was posted in an arstechnica story looking at the mobile OS market space. internationally there were no surprises but for the US the admob numbers seem [...]

palm is toast … will elevation partners start to get it?

elevation partners really believed in palm and the pre and the web os. they poured hundreds of millions into the company. the hope was that the pre would save the company. it was a huge bet, and it was a bet that they lost. palm just announced their most current quarterly results and here are [...]