Sorin Adam Matei
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I tried to watch the Apple launch with my Purdue Polytech students to show them how to introduce a product with a livcast… What we got out of the experience was how not to sell a product with an online livecast. First off,…
“It’s staggering to contemplate how much the Apple co-founder Steve Jobs understood about modern America that those who govern it still don’t.” Steve Jobs was a master at simultaneously goading our sense of individuality and fueling our yearning for community (a topic…
Al Gore’s next book promises to start a publishing revolution. Keep your eyes on Push Pop Press. The 800-pound gorilla in this digital space is Adobe, whose tools are used to create some tablet periodicals (including the iPad version of WIRED magazine).…
Worst gripe? It feels and works like it was made on the cheap. Engineers, navel gazing, fell in love with their own cloud-based dream, leaving the users behind. In a word, released too soon. Personally, I think the idea is great and…
A most powerful medium, of unknown abode and origin, summoned through dark arts the spirit of the Evil One himself, the Fuhrer Adolf Hitler, to ponder on iPad’s fate. This is what he had to say: Related articles by Zemanta The Meme…
The iPad launch video clip A roundup of Apple iPad reviewes The New York Times gave it ample space, asking however some pointed questions: Mr. Jobs, a consummate showman, presented the iPad to an enthusiastic crowd of around 800 employees, business partners…
Image by cattias.photos via Flickr The Apple iPad will be a glorified iTouch, with better connectivity. First off, it will have no camera. None whatsoever. (Although there are people who say that there are some camera kits available) Then, no GPS whatsoever…
David Pogue, the technology columnist/blogger for New York Times believes that the announced Apple tablet, the so called iSlate, will contain at least one element of surprise and will not be just a tablet. Or so we can hope. But my gut…
Business Week announces as almost sure that Apple prepares a new consumer device. A 7-10 inch, ITouch like tablet. The tablet might use the patents Apple just applied for this summer, which include off screen haptic controls and haptic feedback . Apple…
Image via CrunchBase In major setback, CrunchPad, the touch-only computer tablet that wanted to be what the much rumored Apple Tablet should’ve been, is killed on the launchpad. The tablet was developed as a challenge launched by TechCrunch, a popular geek blog,…
Apple grapples with the competition. Was Zittrain right or wrong? When Apple opened the App Store, it provided the building blocks so independent programmers could create software that worked on its phone. But the company said it would vet submissions to maintain…
A sophisticated browser, which straddles the desktop/server divide has been launched by Google. It aims to create a better platform for its webapplications, which need to be faster and more secure to compete with the local desktop, currently dominated by Microsoft. The…
The Apple Iphone Jobs Video. Highlights: Microsoft Exchange and VPN support EBAY interface Loopt support – Location Aware Social Networks: We make serendipity happen Native TypePad support (blogging) Apple – QuickTime – WWDC 2008 Keynote And a list of things Apple…
Steven Levy outlines the greater benefits of launching the Iphone 2.0. But though the low price will dominate iPhone chatter between now and July 11, there is actually a much bigger iPhone story to tell. Today marked the official transformation of Jobs’s…
Zembly is he masu editor of mashups… Developing Web applications to be used within social networks and numerous other cloud-based structures is becoming more and more de rigueur for the entrepreneurial set. Both on the desktop and on the go, Web users…
J. Markoff, of NYT, tells the story: Theodore Holm Nelson, the sociologist and philosopher who coined the term “hypertext” and who is something of an Internet Don Quixote, has had a tremendous influence on the computing world. However, until last night it…
Until recently, Bill Gates has been viewed as the villain of the tech world, while his arch rival, Steve Jobs, enjoys an almost saintly reputation. But these perceptions are wrong. In fact, the reality is reversed. It’s Gates who’s making a dent…