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How the Motorola Droid could turn the tide for Android | Royal Pingdom

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:07:13 -0800

From the page: "I'd like to take a look at just how far Android has come with the announcement of the Droid, and how it shows things are looking much brighter for the platform come year two."

HTML 5 versus Flash | Royal Pingdom

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:40:42 -0700

From the page: "The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is in the process of developing HTML 5, an open standard that could eliminate the need for browser plugins such as Adobe's Flash video player."

Yep, Zune is in trouble | Royal Pingdom

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:39:45 -0700

"Microsoft's iPod competitor, Zune, has been revived with the newly announced Zune HD. But in spite of positive reviews, the overall response from consumers seems to be... well, lukewarm to say the least."

What Microsoft needs to fix for Windows Mobile 7 | Royal Pingdom

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:12:41 -0700

"What follows are a few suggestions on where Microsoft should take Windows Mobile 7 if they want to remain relevant in the mobile space."

Tablets signal the beginning of another Microsoft-Apple war, and why that's a Good Thing | Royal Pingdom

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 09:41:55 -0700

"Tablets signal the beginning of another Microsoft-Apple war, and why that's a Good Thing"

What happened to Research In Motion and where are they going? : Boy Genius Report

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 07:59:38 -0700

From the page: "They have probably the best back-end infrastructure for mobile communication on the planet, awesome phones that can go head-to-head with high-end smartphones, consumer marketing, a huge consumer fanbase, and practically every businessman (or woman) has one on their hip. One word is where RIM fails so miserably it isn't even imaginable: software."

Still Needed for the iPhone: A Great Office Suite&|&Technologizer

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 14:00:49 -0700

Yesterday, DataViz announced that its Documents to Go suite was live on the iPhone App Store. And once again, it turns out that it's less of a suite and more of a work in progress.

How (and Why) the Palm Pre Syncs Directly With iTunes - Palm pre itunes sync - Gizmodo

Fri, 29 May 2009 08:23:52 -0700

"DVD Jon" Johansen, a guy who knows a thing or five about iTunes syncing, breaks down how the Pre must pull it off: by reporting itself as an iPod. It's brazen, and possibly brilliant.

Negatendo.Net & Blog Archive & Wolfram|Alpha and Screen Scraping

Sun, 17 May 2009 08:08:58 -0700

"Perhaps the oddest thing about Wolfram|Alpha is that the text that appears in query results is not text at all, but is in fact made up of dynamically generated GIFs"

Why Windows Mobile 6.5's honeycomb menu is not just a "glorified grid", rather, simple ingenuity - istartedsomething

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 09:11:13 -0800

From the page: "The truth is, the honeycomb from a usability perspective is superior than traditional square grids for a touch interface. Here's why."