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HTML 5 video getting bigger every day

March 30, 2011

Anyone who has owned anything Apple for the last, oh, forever, knows all too well that their devices often lack a piece of hardware or two that all other computers have. See, SCSI ports, floppy drives, smaller floppy drives, zip drives, etc. It is no secret that when Apple is done with something it is quite simply done and that is that. The recent Apple vs. Adobe wars were nothing different except that it was software this time. Ensuing wars not withstanding, they once again made a pretty bold statement. A year ago only about 10% of the online

Android takes over top US mobile spot

March 29, 2011

As the battle of the devices wages on some not-so-shocking news emerged this month from Nielsen. Google’s Android platform has taken over the top spot in the US marketplace over Apple , Blackberry, and everyone else. Final stats have Android taking 29% of the US market while Apple and Blackberry both take 27%. For those interested in the rest Windows is still holding on to 10% of the market. Palm and everything else take 7%. The fact that Android took top spot is hardly a surprise. Every carrier in the US has several devices (about 100 or so different

Apple to make iTunes more like Pandora?

March 28, 2011

I heart Pandora. No doubt about it. It is slick, easy to use, ultra personal, and will sit there quietly (or as loud as I want) and do its job; serve me up music. No muss, no fuss. By contrast I have thousands of songs in my music library that I rarely listen to because they are never on the hard drive near me, not sorted properly, not tagged, you get the point. It is often times easier to simply ignore them and stream. Apple is toying with a solution to this. Make iTunes a cloud service. It would

Verizon iPhone as good (or bad) as AT&T

March 26, 2011

According to Consumer Reports it would seem as though the Verizon iPhone is seemingly identical to its AT&T counterpart. That is to say it pretty much rocks in every way but the antenna. For this reason it was shunned from the recommended list with the group. The other news here is that they also did not recommend it for AT&T. No one seems to be affected by this news, certainly none of the people we know. While we do know people with a few dropped calls from time to time, they appear to be an acceptable cost of doing

Low tech creativity in action

March 25, 2011

In a world full of iPhones, tablets,HTML5, web 2.0, etc etc, it is nice to see someone though smaller of the problem and not bigger. This is really an amazing piece…

Cel phones and your brain

March 23, 2011

This is a hard topic for us. Everyone has a cel phone and most are on it non-stop. No one has come out yet with significant proof that we are all slowly dying of brain tumors so, we continue to talk. Keep in mind though that until about 60 years ago we all though smoking cigarettes was actually healthy. (check this out). Unfortunately this study won’t actually answer any of your questions either but it does get us talking. Essentially it states that test subject’s brains were in fact sensitive to the low levels of radiation emitted from cel

Using iPads to sell you more stuff

March 21, 2011

One thing that is nearly un-arguable at this point is the fact that people really enjoy the iPad. It presents information is an incredibly sexy way. What’s not to like? Retailers have also started to realize this and have begun to test this in several locations. We too have worked with a retailers to apply sales tools for the iPad. Our experience is in-line with others online; retailers are excited about this for sure. In general it is a no-brainer if you think about it. You can make a store experience that has access to far more information than