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Use It Up, Wear It Out – Consumers Hold On to Stuff Longer

By On February 28, 2011 · Leave a Comment

This is an interesting trend: I wonder if this will extend to reducing the “gotta have the latest iPhone/iPad as soon as it comes out” Cycle times may increase for those devices as well. Although I’m sure that the core Apple faithful will need to upgrade no matter what the cost, the brunt of consumers will [...]

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IBM’s Watson crowned Jeopardy king

By On February 17, 2011 · Leave a Comment

“I for one welcome our new computer overlords,”

via BBC News – IBM’s Watson supercomputer crowned Jeopardy king.

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Innovation Compilation

By On February 8, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Just something I cobbled together from various innovation related videos from YouTube…

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Tron: Legacy

By On January 15, 2011 · Leave a Comment

I saw Tron: Legacy last weekend with my sons and I really, really wanted to like it I loved the visuals and I can’t get enough of the music Daft Punk Rulez!

For some reason, I can’t stop thinking that the music and the visuals could have done such a better job if the [...]

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Consumer Reports Won’t Recommend iPhone 4 – WSJ.com

By On July 12, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Like I mentioned in a previous post. Make sure that you think things through before you make the leap.

This is the iPhone’s FOURTH generation, and it has basic issues even as a phone.

One of my friends, a real Apple fan – not quite a fanboi – is actually thinking about taking it [...]

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What Are You Waiting For?

By On July 8, 2010 · Leave a Comment

There are no more excuses, if you ask me.

I remember the days when it took literally a full time systems administrator, engineering personnel, and hundreds or thousands to millions of dollars in order to build and deploy a static web site, let alone the incredibly complex applications that we are seeing today. I personally [...]

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all things aria:initial impressions

By On July 1, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Here are the initial impressions I had of the HTC Aria when I picked it up

1. Light

2. Small

3. Fast

via all things aria.

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We ARE NOT appeasing customers

By On June 30, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Follow up to my earilier post as to why I’m not an Apple customer: here is the text of the leaked memo to the AppleCare people regrading the iPhone 4 problems: AppleCare reps are being told to not give bumper cases to disgruntled users.

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1. Keep all of the positioning statements in the BN handy [...]

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Why I Don’t Have An iPhone

By On June 29, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Sigh. Once again people I thought knew me say, “I thought you were an iPhone guy”. No, I’m not an iPhone guy, and i have many legitimate reasons for not being an iPhone guy. Here are some of those reasons

1. I don’t like having to pay for a phone.

Lets get real people. Everyone [...]

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Applied vs Theoretical Innovation

By On June 29, 2010 · 1 Comment

Recently, I got to thinking that there are really are two kinds of innovation, and these two types of innovation were very apparent in the kind of programs I would run for companies. Borrowing a term from physics, I like to call these two types of innovation “theoretical” and “applied” just like theoretical and applied physics.

Theoretical [...]

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