Category Archives: Convergence for a Converging World

Biggest* Doesn’t = Best…

Posted on April 27, 2012 by John

Congrats to Samsung for passing Nokia (as the world’s leading handset manufacturer). Nevertheless, being the largest in units shipped* doesn’t equate to: 1) selling the most units; 2) being the best handset e.g., Smartphone. No offense to Samsung; however, the reality … Continue reading →

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So What?

Posted on April 24, 2012 by John

Independent of whether Oracle buys RIM and/or how their on-going legal wrangling with Google turns out… the simple reality is this: RIM’s woes are a combination of self-inflicted and the fact that the market has (largely) passed them by. As … Continue reading →

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The Next Generation…

Posted on April 23, 2012 by John

Intel’s announcement of their next-generation of nano-processors is (potentially) a good sign on three fronts: one) they reportedly perform 20% better; two) they also supposedly use 20% less energy, and; three) with how fierce the competition has become for them … Continue reading →

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A $15.00 Website!?

Posted on April 22, 2012 by John

In an era when / where high-tech is showing (almost) no boundaries this reality is clearly evident by North Korea’s purchase and use of a template (for their official governmental homepage) created by a Southern California Web Designer… (Source) LA … Continue reading →

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The Downward Spiral.

Posted on April 21, 2012 by John

Hubris; slow response times; massive network outages; bad PR; a lack of innovation; missing market opportunities; being the early leader within the Corporate space… all of the aforementioned (and some not mentioned, etc.) Long story short: if the reports are … Continue reading →

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Haunted By e-Waste!?

Posted on April 20, 2012 by John

Another ‘discovery‘ has been made at the world’s largest e-Waste landfill aka China’s Electronic Waste Village. However, the culprits this time around might not be the West per se as much as Africa; Asia and the PRC itself (regarding what … Continue reading →

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Tomahawk.

Posted on April 16, 2012 by John

The latest and (disputably) the ‘greatest’ way to organize your music (and interconnect all of the divergent mediums for accessing a myriad of digital music services) is one that most end-users have in all probability never heard of… (Source) Tomahawk: … Continue reading →

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Windows + iPad = ?

Posted on April 15, 2012 by John

A seemingly inevitable question that it was only a matter of time before it’d be asked is / was: How can any given end-user run Windows on an iPad? Said question begs the (perhaps obvious) answer: why would anyone want … Continue reading →

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The Pre-Digital Era: Germany’s (Musical) Rebirth.

Posted on April 14, 2012 by John

Before computers; Smartphones; programming; applications; GarageBand; Deejays; and canned background dance-tracks with 4-on-the-floor beats… there was Kraftwerk (and a host of others)… a band that was one of the true pioneers of a genre of music that influenced a wide-range … Continue reading →

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14% TO 17%…

Posted on April 12, 2012 by John

A study released today predicts that Smartphone sales will hit 1 billion in 2014. Towards that end, depending on how one does the math that breaks down to between 14 and (just under) 17% of the entire planet’s population purchasing … Continue reading →

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