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The news about Steve Jobs passing away is taking the Web by storm. That’s only fitting considering Jobs’s impact on technology. Chris and I have recorded two TechStuff episodes about Steve Jobs. We could probably record two dozen and only scratch the surface of what Jobs accomplished.
Is Google stacking the Android deck with Motorola?
by Jonathan Strickland | August 15, 2011
The news broke early this morning — Google is acquiring Motorola Mobility for around $12.5 billion. Motorola Mobility makes Android devices such as smartphones like the Droid and the Atrix as well as the Xoom tablet computer. According to Market Watch, Google CEO and co-founder Larry Page said, “Together, we will create amazing user experiences that supercharge the entire Android ecosystem for the benefit of consumers, partners and developers.”
Today’s uproar is not occurring in a concerted cry of outrage like it normally does, but instead it is occurring in the volume of material being published on so many different fronts. Two weeks ago we covered the fact that smartphones track our locations: Today’s uproar – Apple’s iPhone and 3G iPad track your location [...]
I received an invitation this week to tag along with Georgia Tech lecturer Bill Leahy as he and his class visited the augmented reality and wearable electronics labs on campus. I got a chance to see some cool applications that students have built as class projects and general research and development. They showed off an augmented reality browser as well as several games, all on handheld devices like the iPad 2 and the HTC G2 Android phone. Needless to say, I was thrilled to be there.
I’ve been pretty good about keeping a level head so far, Google. When you launched Android, I was excited to see an open(ish) smartphone operating system hit the market. I bought into the philosophy and believed you when you said it would drop the barrier between developers and the platform. Unlike with Apple, developers wouldn’t have to endlessly tweak their apps to vague and sometimes hidden guidelines in order to get a spot in the marketplace. But reality hasn’t quite panned out the way you hinted at a few years ago. And now you’re about to make it harder for customers to decide what product to buy.
This week Nvidia announced its latest Tegra processor for Tablet computers and smartphones. The chip has 4 cores, which appears to be a first in this class of CPUs. This gives it unprecedented power, as demonstrated in this video: Here is what it means in real terms – the ability to drive 1440p displays: “We [...]
Hundreds of Nokia Employees Protest Partnership with Microsoft
by Jonathan Strickland | February 11, 2011
Too big to fail is a phrase we’ve heard in regards to many companies, usually shortly after the company suffers a major failure. It’s a reminder that no matter how big and successful a company may be, there’s always the chance that it could lose its dominant position given the right set of circumstances. The most recent example of that might be Nokia and, more specifically, its home-grown cell phone operating system called Symbian.
Invention – a moving base from Satarii that allows your camera to follow you
by Marshall Brain | February 11, 2011
This is a great idea, nicely implemented to make it simple. It is a base that allows your camera to automatically track you as you move around: This is not so conceptually unusual. For example, people have been making people-followers for awhile in the form of paintball sentries: Satarii has radically simplified the problem with [...]
Sprint has demonstrated a new dual screen cell phone – apparently the first phone of this type to hit the market. It is called the Kyocera Echo as seen here: The video above shows that it has three modes: closed (looks like a normal smartphone), tablet mode and PC mode. It is priced similarly to [...]
The news is all over the place but I heard it first on engadget: Sony has unveiled a new gaming platform for Android-based devices called PlayStation Suite. The platform is a PlayStation emulator that will allow users to play PlayStation games (from the original PlayStation) on phones and tablets. There will be touchscreen controls for devices that don’t have physical keyboards. New games designed specifically for PlayStation Suite are soon to follow.
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