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Windows Phone is Superior; Why Hasn’t it Taken Off? | cek.log
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Geeky Rants and Raves from Charlie Kindel…. Charlie’s Gadgets Worth Getting Guide 2011. Windows Phone is Superior; Why Hasn’t it Taken Off? December 26, 2011. People ask me all the time why, if I think Windows Phone is such an excellent product. NOTE: This post was inspired by a. Comment I posted on Hacker News. Ed Bott’s article on the Android ICS update fiasco. The device manufacturers, mobile operators, OS providers, and end users operate in an overly complex virtuous cycle. A virtuous cycle is one wh...
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Mobile Opportunity: Mobile applications, RIP
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Mobile applications, RIP. The decline of the mobile software industry. Mobile computing is different from PC computing. For the last decade, that has been the fundamental rule of the mobile data industry. It was the central insight of Palm Computing's "Zen of Palm" philosophy. Psion came up with similar ideas, and you can hear echoes of them from every other successful mobile computing firm: Mobile computers are used differently from PCs, and therefore must be designed differently. The problem wasn't jus...
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Datawocky: Oscar Halo: Academy Awards and the Matthew Effect
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On Teasing Patterns from Data, with Applications to Search, Social Media, and Advertising. Laquo; Kosmix Adds Rocketfuel to Power Voyage of Exploration. Reboot: How to Reinvent a Technology Startup ». Oscar Halo: Academy Awards and the Matthew Effect. Is one my favorite movies of all time. And I have followed the career of A.R. Rahman. But it got me to thinking: if Rahman had composed the same music for an obscure film this year, rather than for Slumdog Millionaire, would he have been nominated? Moving f...
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Gigaom | GigaOM White Paper: The Facts & Fiction of Bandwidth Caps
https://gigaom.com/2008/09/30/gigaom-white-paper-the-facts-fiction-of-bandwidth-caps
The industry leader in emerging technology research. GigaOM White Paper: The Facts and Fiction of Bandwidth Caps. Sep 30, 2008 - 2:00 AM PDT. Beginning on Wednesday, Comcast, the largest broadband service provider in the U.S., is going to start capping the total amount of data. The possibilities for new startups. I have been very vocal. About the short-sightedness of this decision being made by Comcast (and some other carriers), and along with my colleague Stacey Higginbotham. Have been covering the story.
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Gigaom | Here Comes Trouble: Telephone Number Tyranny
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The industry leader in emerging technology research. Here Comes Trouble: Telephone Number Tyranny. Feb 7, 2008 - 12:00 AM PDT. Telephone service I had in 1984 was in most ways worse than the service I got when I was a little boy in the South in the 1930s. Then, I’d pick up the receiver, and the lady would say, Number, please, and I’d say, I want my Mommy! Dial-by-name platforms work very well. Search engines turn the entire content of web sites into keyword alternatives for domain names, so why not a...
