The Secret Behind the iPad’s Low Price

Wondering how Apple can sell the iPad for under $500?
from BNETApple iPad Price, Features Say “ARM” All Over
By Chris Dannen | Jan 27, 2010
Here’s what you need to know about the iPad: it’s a 9.7-inch touchscreen pad that’s half an inch thick, sports WiFi and 3G, and runs apps, reads e-books and lasts 10 hours [...]

Industry Execs Weigh In on iPad

Interesting article from Brandweek
by Mike Shields and Lucia Moses, Mediaweek
Traditional media — notably representatives from the reeling print world — were conspicuously absent from Apple’s elaborate rollout of the iPad, its highl -anticipated tablet computing device.
But publishers, advertisers and analysts remain optimistic that magazines and newspapers will ultimately receive a readership and business boost from [...]

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 [...]

Apple Press Conference Live today at 1pm Eastern

Anyone interested in spending lunch at the Apple Press Conference today (virtually)?
from Ubergizmo
On January 27th, join us for the live coverage of Apple’s “new creation” in San Francisco. Go to http://live.ubergizmo.com: we will be at the event to provide up to the minute (or less!) photos and comments: you will feel like being in the [...]

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 [...]

Augmented reality: Pure hype or Next Big Thing in mobile?

Thanks to my friend Mark Weintraub who came across this article in the current issue of ComputerWorld (Mobile/Wireless section)
Surf the world’ as you walk through itBy Howard WenJanuary 26, 2010 06:00 AM ET
Computerworld – Augmented reality technology is getting a lot of attention these days — particularly the use of AR with smartphones. The idea [...]

Just An Online Minute… Augmented Reality: The Heidi Montag Of New Media?

Another packed house at Samsung this morning for our event at Samsung (photo courtesy of Tim Dwight). Nice story about the event by Kelly Samardak of MediaPost/Just An Online Minute
I can’t believe I am energized from a 7:30 a.m. panel. But I guess that’s what augmented reality does to you. It began painfully, as the [...]

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 [...]

Sixth Sense Technology

My friend Diane DiResta of DiResta Communications sent me an email with a link to a fasciating article and video from TEDIndia.  Pranav Mistry demos several tools that help the physical world interact with the world of data — including a deep look at his SixthSense device and a new, paradigm-shifting paper “laptop”.
She asked if [...]

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