by Van Baker | September 9, 2009 | Comments Off
Sony has committed to connectivity for their electronics with the company pledging to achieve connectivity with 90 percent of its products by 2010. In a recent meeting Sony USA confirmed that they are on track to hit this 90% target. In their Internet connected television offering Sony has chosen to support Yahoo! TV widget library [...]
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by Van Baker | September 9, 2009 | 2 Comments
The Nokia N900 is a significant change for Nokia on the user interface front. While it is not clear how this user interface will influence future versions of the Nokia S60 smartphone offerings it does show that Nokia is capable of developing an attractive and usable interface that consumers should find both easy to use [...]
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by Van Baker | April 24, 2009 | Comments Off
The App store just hit 1 billion downloads and with a billion downloads there has to be some money involved. Right? Well let’s do some math. There are 1 billion downloads but it is likely that a minority of these are applications that consumers paid for. I will err on the conservative side and guess [...]
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by Van Baker | April 22, 2009 | Comments Off
Apple posted very strong results for its second fiscal quarter reporting net income of 1.21 Billion or $1.33 per share on revenues of $8.16 billion. Sales fo the iPhone were up a spectacular 123% over the year ago quarter wnd sales of the iPod were up 3% over the year ago quarter. There was some [...]
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by Van Baker | April 10, 2009 | 2 Comments
The amount of hype around the upcoming Palm Pre is impressive and has almost achieved Apple level buzz. The phone has been widely shown at CES, Mobile World Congress and CTIA and it is a very impressive device. The user interface is very impressive and the functionality that the device brings to the market is [...]
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by Van Baker | March 19, 2009 | 3 Comments
Cisco announced that they are buying Pure Digital the maker of the low cost Flip video camera. Cisco states that this product fits nicely into their home networking strategy. I am not impressed with this purchase for a number of reasons. First Cisco is an enterprise networking company in their DNA. They have never been [...]
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by Van Baker | March 19, 2009 | Comments Off
Sony and Google have announced that they will have 500,000 public domain titles available for the Sony Reader for free. This is a very smart move on the part of Sony as it instantly broadens the appeal of the Sony Reader and addresses one of the complaints about the Sony Reader namely that the available [...]
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by Van Baker | March 11, 2009 | 1 Comment
Apple has introduced a new iPod Shuffle that has no controls on the player. The device is small and is relatively non-descript with the only logo on the back of a stainless steel clip. Instead of buttons that control the device the controls are built into the headphone cord. With the control button you can [...]
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by Van Baker | March 10, 2009 | Comments Off
Sony recently announced a new Blu-ray player with integrated 802.11n Wi-Fi connectivity. The networking configuration for the player is different from its networked television sets which have Ethernet built in. The network connectivity is necessary to support BD Live which adds interactivity to recent versions of Blu-ray movies that offer interactive content including integrated games, [...]
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Category: Uncategorized Tags: Blu-ray, consumer electronics, interactive, Sony, television
by Van Baker | March 6, 2009 | 2 Comments
There has been speculation in the trade press that Nintendo is attempting to compete with the iPod Touch with the launch of the DSi which as a music player and two cameras built in. The CEO of Nintendo has denied this in his blog, Iwata Asks Nintendo DSi and states that the DSi with it [...]
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