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iPhone 5 – Sprint killer? 4 Sep 2012 | 08:15 am
It is widely rumored that Apple will announce the iPhone 5 on September 12th with a September 21st launch. The rumored new specifications of the phone: 4G LTE - this is largely a given at this point...
Recent Apple Announcements – Summary and Reaction 30 Jun 2012 | 06:03 am
Below is a way overdue summary of Apple’s Announcements from their June 11, 2012 World Wide Developer’s Conference and my take on them. First (since many people won’t want to read the long summary be...
Google preempts Apple with Maps upgrade announcement 7 Jun 2012 | 05:51 am
I recently wrote about the expected change in the iPhone/iOS native Maps application. Apple is expected to replace Google as the backend and upgrade the app to include 3D maps. This is all supposed t...
The most important app on your iPhone is about to change 1 Jun 2012 | 07:08 am
There have been persistent rumors over the past month or so that Apple will be replacing (upgrading?) the current Maps application with the new version of the iPhone operating system (iOS 6). This ha...
Does Instagram’s $1 billion sale explain the $41 million investment in Color? 8 May 2012 | 12:38 am
Color infamously raised $41 million before releasing their mobile app in March of 2011 and has since become the punchline of countless jokes after a spectacularly failed launch. Their app was widely...
Blackberry’s Last Stand? 3 May 2012 | 03:55 am
RIM previewed the Blackberry 10 yesterday. I won’t talk about the specifics of the phone, but a couple of things struck me. 1. Even RIM doesn’t seem convinced that they’ve figured things out. The...
Applying Moneyball Tactics outside of sports 20 Apr 2012 | 11:26 am
Cover via Amazon It’s kind of funny – the implicit assumption in the book and the movie Moneyball was that looking at data analytically to avoid natural bias and irrational decisions was standard far...
Which venture capitalists are early adopters? 28 Mar 2012 | 06:56 am
A few months ago, my friend Peter Kamali and I created hacked together a site called EarlyNerd that lets you see how you rank vs. your friends and the broader population on the early adoption scale. ...
Ridiculous headlines spur dumb conversations 22 Mar 2012 | 03:43 am
An AP News article came out today entiled, “Job seekers getting asked for Facebook passwords.” Sounds crazy, right? This spurred a bunch of follow-on articles/posts like the one below, Facebook and T...
Which apps are killing your battery life? 21 Mar 2012 | 01:23 pm
Interesting research came out today about battery life and smart phones. This study specifically examined Android phones – the finding was that free apps that serve advertising use up to 75% of their ...
