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According to Bloomberg, BlackBerrys being launched in early 2012 will have the capability to run Android applications. RIM is desperately trying to regain sales and the addition of over 250,000 apps could help save fleeing consumers. RIM’s QNX software makes the app ports possible and is the same technology that was supposed to bring Android Continue Reading →

I’ve never worked at Apple and I’ve never met Steve Jobs (other than a driveby handshake at some Apple events), but I’ve been repeatedly asked to comment about what Steve Jobs retirement will mean to Apple and the media business over the past few days.  I have asked every reporter the same question: “Steve Jobs, Continue Reading →

NO PURCHASE IS NECESSARY. Contest void where prohibited. Contest Terms: Contest commences at 12:00:00 p.m. E.S.T. Friday, October 28, 2011 and closes at 11:59:59 p.m. E.S.T. Sunday, October 30, 2011. Eligibility: Entrants must be eighteen (18) years age or older by the contest closing date and be a legal resident of the 50 United States, Continue Reading →

There was a pretty funny article on CNN.com entitled, “Do you obsessively check your smartphone?”  Duh!  Of course I do.  So does everyone else I know.  Elizabeth Cohen, CNN.com’s Senior Medical Correspondent, cites a study in the journal of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing that showed that test subjects checked their smartphones an average of 34 Continue Reading →

Will Walmart’s new video streaming service hurt Netflix?  That seems to be “the” question about this story.  The short answer is, yes. New competition is going to drive prices down.  And increased demand for more (and newer) video content will drive margins down.  Netflix is going to have to answer with excellent marketing and management.  Continue Reading →

First China Location Where Avid Readers Can See and Buy the New Sleek, Light, Revolutionary Kobo eReader Touch Edition TORONTO, July 22, 2011 — Kobo, a global leader in eReading with more than 4 million users worldwide, announced today that Swindon Book Co. Ltd. in Hong Kong is rolling out the revolutionary new Kobo eReader Continue Reading →

Youtube broadcast in 2d and 3d LG glasses-free 3D smartphone experience highlights exclusive partnership with YouTube through first-of-its-kind music experience NEW YORK – July 25, 2011 – LG Mobile announced today it will celebrate the launch of LG Thrill 4G™, the awe-inspiring, glasses-free 3D superphone available exclusively this summer from AT&T, with an integrated marketing Continue Reading →

Albert Einstein once said, “Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.” Leave it to a bunch of physicists to get all practical on us and publish a paper definitively Continue Reading →

The NASA Space Shuttle program is over. Columbia and Challenger (both lost in heartbreaking accidents), Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavor and their brave crews served our country well. After more than 135 missions, the remaining orbiters: Discovery, Atlantis, Endeavor and Enterprise (the test vehicle, not intended for space flight) will become museum pieces. Government-funded manned spaceflight Continue Reading →

More than 15,000 Jobs Saved Nationwide MCKINNEY, Texas, July 21, 2011 – Blockbuster L.L.C. announced today it has assumed contracts with property owners nationwide and will maintain operations of more than 1,500 U.S. Blockbuster stores that would have closed under liquidation, as approved in a New York bankruptcy court this week. Blockbuster also will retain Continue Reading →