- Windows Phone 7: Excellent, Also Doomed
- The Rise of Apps Culture
"Among cell phone owners, 29% have downloaded apps to their phone and 13% have paid to download apps." - Dave Letterman, method actor
"You know what you are? You're one of those Fancy Lads, aren't you? …hey…would you like to buy a monkey?" - Never Let Me Go Director Mark Romanek on How to Take the Perfect iPhone Photo — Vulture
"I use OldCamera and Hipstamatic. I’m amazed at how good these [photos] look, 'cause it’s a fucking phone. OldCamera is my favorite, but if you get OldCamera, you gotta go into the settings. Those are key: I like the mode to be Kallitype, and I select the vignetting, and square mode. With Hipstamatic, I use the John S. lens and this film stock Kodot. The thing about OldCamera and Hipstamatic is, you can take a picture of a fucking toilet and it comes out like it is something." - HP names ex-SAP chief Apotheker as new CEO | The Industry Standard – InfoWorld
Whoa! HP to hire former SAP CEO Léo Apotheker to replace Hurd. - Apple iPhone app manages mainframe
- iOS development: More lucrative than expected
"Nearly half of respondents — 48% — revealed that they're earning more than the expected." - Evernote Chrome Extension gets Simultaneous Search « Evernote Blogcast
We'll see how nifty this is, or not. - Software-maker Red Hat considers Austin HQ
That'd be pretty cool. - What Platforms Will Have Mobile App Devs in 12 Mos?
The winners: iPhone, Androud, and mobile web. - virtualization.info | Microsoft and LG partner on VDI, Desktop-as-a-Service cloud computing?
LG has been embedded little network computers in it's screens – as I recall you can get LG TVs that run Netflix on demand. In addition to VDI interest, that wider thing is the interesting trend: what could you start doing if every TV (and monitor) came with a little computer in it. More than likely, the platforms won't be open, which will mean a lot of platform fragmentation which will mean sucky apps. Think of "feature phones." - 10 years | Flickr – Photo Sharing!
Nice visual of the 10 years of computer evolution under Apple. - Smartphone buyers want Apple, Android • reghardware
More rising interest in Android, in the US. - Nokia Starts Shipping Its Flagship N8 In The Nick Of Time
Good luck storming the castle! - NComputing Secures Global Leadership in Desktop Virtualization | NComputing
"IDC’s Q2 2010 Worldwide Enterprise Client Devices Tracker highlights just one aspect of NComputing’s leadership in desktop virtualization, ranking the company #2 in worldwide shipments at 20.9% share and fastest quarter on quarter growth at 56% (when combining the thin client and terminal client categories)." - iAd's Revenues Catapult Apple To The Top Of The List Of Mobile Ad Networks
Apple and Google to rule mobile ads: "it’s easy to see how Apple could leapfrog ahead of the pack in 2010 after securing $60 million in additional revenues." - HP eager to replace brittle IT
A blizzard of cash-numbers and margins for HP business units. - Avaya and Skype Partner for Unified Communications
- Everyone but Oracle demands Java independence
Oracle going for more control over Java. They did say they wanted to be like the IBM of the 1960s afterall. - Even businesses that made money with Groupon hesitant to try again
The message is pretty clear: coupon clippers are assholes (to small biz): biz): "There is widespread recognition among many business owners that social promotion users are not the relational customers that they had hoped for or the ones that are necessary for their business’s long-term success," reads the report. "Instead, there is disillusionment with the extreme price sensitive nature and transactional orientation of these consumers among many study respondents." - Austin All-Girl Hack Night (Austin, TX) – Meetup
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