This is the hardest thing I have ever written in my life. Today Steve Jobs has passed away. What follows is the statement from Apple, the company he started from his garage. We are deeply saddened to announce that Steve Jobs passed away today. Steve’s brilliance, passion and energy were the source of countless innovations […]
Today, social is taking over the world. However, there is a problem, some companies have trouble getting sharing right. Some startups define sharing as a “Like” button, but others have decided “social” is sharing everything. This is not “social,” this is annoying. At this point distraction sets in and users are overwhelmed by the amount […]
In possibly one of the most well-executed and well-needed redesigns I have seen this year Posterous has relaunched their sites and groups product under the new name, “Posterous Spaces.” Last month I read an editorial from Business Insider about how Posterous had not seen the adoption that Tumblr had seen because of its ostensibly lesser design. […]
On August 24 around 6:30 Steven P. Jobs resigned as CEO of Apple Inc. His letter of resignation is as follows. To the Apple Board of Directors and the Apple Community: I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple’s CEO, I […]
Assuming both European and U.S. regulators approve the deal, Google will buy Motorola Mobility at 60% of the stock price at the time of the deal ($40). What does this mean for Motorola, Google, and the rest of the industry? For Motorola: Google says Motorola will continue to operate as a separate wing of Google. […]
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In today’s update to the Apple TV set-top box Apple added streaming of purchased (in addition to rented) TV shows, along with Vimeo support and the all-too-usual bug fixes. I would like to take a minute and point out what Apple is doing here with this update. As Techcrunch notes in this article Today’s Apple […]
Apple has said in no unclear terms that it is bringing some of the best features of iOS to OS X Lion in what is probably the largest user-facing change in the OS to date. After using Lion for about a week now, I can say with confidence that it has changed the way I […]
Google’s newest move into social, Google+, came with a remarkably well designed interface. Although there are still plenty of gripes about the social network itself I am going to pay attention to what Google is doing here with their interface. Google is known for their utilitarian interfaces and that is what people have come to […]
The HP TouchPad was reviewed on several sites last week. And one thing rang clear: the TouchPad’s software, and to some extent, hardware were half-baked. The OS, webOS, was laggy and some important features, such as threaded emails, were missing. This sounds familiar. A couple of weeks ago Apple released Final Cut Pro X (say […]