Category Archives: Convergence for a Converging World

Perhaps You’ve Heard…

Posted on September 24, 2011 by John

Granted, there is no shortage of criticism regarding the Ugly (Unaware in this instance) American. And, if the enclosed report from Connected Intelligence is accurate, Redmond just might have a bigger problem than they anticipated / realized… As forty-five percent … Continue reading →

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The New AOL?

Posted on September 23, 2011 by John

Granted; as a website, Facebook is not afraid of change. Nevertheless, even with the (seemingly) endless cycle of announcements; the follow-on updates; resistance / complaints, and ultimately end-user acceptance… the site’s dedicated following clearly (at this junction) demonstrates their influence … Continue reading →

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(Throwing) Another Hail Mary?!

Posted on September 18, 2011 by John

In simple terms: Redmond has failed abjectly in their on-going attempt to largely cram the (PC) desktop environment onto a handset… Yet; aside from giving Microsoft credit for trying, at some point in time it should’ve been obvious (perhaps several … Continue reading →

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What’s IN Your Wallet?

Posted on September 17, 2011 by John

It’s been a very long-time coming (and it seems like there’s an eternity to go) however; mobile wallets (while still in a very nascent stage of consumer and retail development / adoption in America) look staged to take-off as preliminary field … Continue reading →

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A ‘Little’ Slow.

Posted on September 16, 2011 by John

Actually… they are more than ‘a little slow’ in and as far as how long it took for a number of (American) states to finally get around to deciding to commit to joining the DOJ’s lawsuit against the proposed AT&T … Continue reading →

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Micro-a-hoo.

Posted on September 15, 2011 by John

AOL; Microsoft and Yahoo! are joining forces in order to (attempt) to challenge Google’s on-line advertising dominance. In a word: Yawn… From the Guardian UK: http://goo.gl/vFLJM

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THe NeXT ReVOLUTION.

Posted on September 14, 2011 by John

Based on the fact that consumer e-books sales (within the first 5 months of 2011 overtook all adult hardback books sales) the American Publishing Industry (although they report that it’ll ultimately wind-up differently) looks to be going the (route) way … Continue reading →

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Parallel Processing.

Posted on September 13, 2011 by John

Skynet (no; not the main nemesis in the Terminator movie series that become ‘self-aware’) is actively seeking the assistance of idle home PCs in order to process / sort through astronomical data… For more information… actually, it is a good … Continue reading →

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AOL + Yahoo! = (About) 1996?

Posted on September 10, 2011 by John

The ridiculous AOL / Yahoo! merger talk (over the past few days) would essentially equate to two dinosaurs trying to turn the clock ‘back to the future.’ Yahoo! walked away from a roughly $50 Billion (outright) purchase by Microsoft (which … Continue reading →

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The ‘Steve Austin’ Phone?!

Posted on September 9, 2011 by John

For those aficionados; pundits and/or laymen who are betting on the battle for Smartphone supremacy coming down to a two-firm race (between Apple and Samsung) Motorola has seemingly upped the ante (which most likely means that HTC will do the … Continue reading →

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