Archive for March, 2008
Next Entries »So Close, You Can Taste It
Monday, March 10th, 2008One of my favorite curse-blessings of the current gadget and tech world is the sense of what’s just over the horizon. The blessing part should be apparent, the curse part… well, the best stuff always seems just out of reach. An example of that is the Samsung SWT-W100K, a convergence device about the size of [...]
iPhone SDK Opens Some Intriguing Doors
Thursday, March 6th, 2008Today Apple introduced their new Software Development Kit for the iPhone. Until now, most iPhone applications have had to be web-based rather than residing on the handset. The other option was to jailbreak your phone, allowing running of third-party apps, but beginning an ongoing cycle of bricking and re-jailbreaking with each new firmware update. The [...]
Kindle Demand – Perception and Reality
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008There seems to be something of a gulf between perception and reality when it comes to the public hunger for Amazon’s Kindle e-Book reader. When it was introduced last November, most reviewers were at least mildly intrigued by the device, but almost none have declared it an indispensable gadget. Many in the online tech crowd [...]
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