iWork Killer App For iPad?

Is iWork the killer app for the iPad or will the iPad ultimately kill iWork? In the past iWork has been non-starter: positioned between Microsoft’s over-featured Office suite and Oracle’s free OpenOffice. Child of ClarisWorks, it never quite caught caught on. I once spent a whole day trying to do a keyframe animation in Keynote [...]

Overload Slows Wireless Data

The exploding popularity of smartphones like the iPhone and the Droid have pushed wireless carriers to accelerate their plans to increase the capacity of the data connections between their cell towers and the internet.
In her Signal Strength blog on Cnet, Marguerite Reardon explains why every major wireless operator in the U.S. has had to accelerate [...]

Why Apple Really Wanted Lala

 
Did Apple buy Lala in order to beat Amazon (and others) by setting up a cloud-based subscription service? Not according to this guest post on TechCrunch by Michael Robertson.
Robertson explains why he thinks Lala is critical to Apple’s future, why Apple’s move must include music already owned by iTunes users and why they bought an [...]

Foursquare Not Pleased As Yelp Adds Features

Yelp rolled out a new version of their iPhone app on Friday 1/15, introducing the ability to “check in” to a local business, alerting your friends (or your stalkers) that you are there. As you know, this is nothing new, as Gowalla and Loopt have also copied the feature that Foursquare innovated. (Loopt, however, had [...]

Mobile DTV – Game Changer or Too Late?

 
Receiving a big send-off from manufacturers at last week’s CES, free mobile digital television could either be part of broadcast TV’s salvation, or a non-starter. With under-30’s used to watching on their computers or downloading to their portable devices, mobile DTV could be either a revenue generator for local stations or just a big hit [...]

DECE vs KeyChest

 
Remember VHS vs Betamax? HD DVD vs Blu-ray? The new format war on the horizon might be DECE (Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem) vs KeyChest.
In the name of “buy once, play anywhere”, it’s the DECE ”big boys” (Sony [who leads the effort],Warner Brothers, Paramount, NBC Universal, Fox, Microsoft, Intel, Cisco, Motorola, Comcast, Cox Communications, Liberty Global, Netflix, [...]

Wrap of CES Wrap-Ups

CES 2010 was as upbeat as Wall Street. For those of us who were not there, here are some links to the best show wrap-ups:
Text Links:CnetThe New York TimesAgence France-Presse: “Useful, Useless and Unusual“

Videos:CNET News (Best of Show)Associated Press Technology Writer Peter Svensson
Podcasts:Engadget Podcast

 

Augmented Reality Primer

With all the buzz about augmented reality phone apps from Layar and Sekai and a SobelMedia event in the works, we thought these links would help bring you up to speed on the technology:
Augmented Reality vs Virtual Reality from TechCrunchAugmented Reality in WikipediaEsquire Magazine Augmented Reality “Issue” Blog entry from Programmer JoeAnd what is probably [...]

Tableful of Tablets

Tablet computers and e-readers were among the products generating the most buzz at the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show. Not surprisingly, Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer keynoted the show by showing off an HP tablet running Windows 7. (Photo.)
According to the New York Times, H.P. is working on an array of tablets, including one that will run Google’s Android operating system. [...]