Category: Marketing
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Predicting tech announcements is easy
In the days before Steve Jobs and the Apple crew paraded the iPad around the stage in San Francisco, I wrote a couple of items about the (then named) Apple iSlate / iTablet device. In one, I listed the 6 things I wanted to see in an Apple Tablet, the other, more relevant to this…
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How the Apple Tablet can really succeed
Given that Apple isn’t really paying attention to my musings, I’m rather free to go on about things I *think* they can do to make their products, and make them better. I’ve been following Apple’s tablet designs since the Newton Message pad. An interesting device, yet not very practical. I’m completely smitten by my iPod…
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The Tablet Cometh: Some thoughts on Apple’s announcement
Next Wednesday, Apple will host one of the most anticipated technology announcements of the year, perhaps of this still-fresh decade. The reason for this level of attention is that everyone anticipates that Apple will re-launch a device that the industry has been trying to make work for 20 years — the Tablet computer. As some pundits…
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Look! Over there!! It’s a Tablet…but wait, there’s another…
One Tablet, two tablets, three tablets, four. This week’s a zoo, I can’t take it any more! …more This post is an excerpt from one of my weekly posts on the Future Shop Techblog. Check out the full post here.
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Why I’m not recommending an eBook reader this Christmas
This holiday season it seems that the eBook reader is the must-have tech gift. I can understand why: Portable — it’s easier to carry one eReader loaded with a few hundred (or thousand!) books Searchable — some of the eReaders can scan and search for text passages, letting you bookmark them for future reference Annotations — in…
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Major Tom cover version — official free download available
You’ve likely heard it in the Lincoln MKZ commercials, but last night I finally paid attention to the ad and listened… and heard this awesome version inbetwixt shows. So obviously I had to find it somewhere. After scouring Google videos and all, I’d finally resigned myself to having to listen to it through this blip.fm…