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The Future of Mobile Software [Voices] — By Daniel Eran Dilger, Blogger, RoughlyDrafted There’s nothing new about mobile computing. In the early 90s the industry promised a range of devices from tablets to mini-laptops to smaller handheld PDAs. Apple’s pioneering offering, the 1993 Newton Message Pad, sought to deliver a sophisticated new operating system and development environment running a unique new platform based upon low power, ARM RISC processors the company codeveloped with Acorn. Read the rest of this post... [Tags: acorn, apple, blogger, development environment, dilger]

What an Obama Presidency Means for Technology — Daniel Eran Dilger President Elect Barack Obama won’t actually take office for several weeks, but he’s already given an early glimpse of what he will accomplish in terms of technology. The remaining question is how far he will go to use technology to solve issues under his agenda for the nation. . Power From the People. Obama’s office has [...]... [Tags: barack obama, dilger, glimpse, presidency, president elect]

What Prop 8 Means to America — Daniel Eran Dilger Californians voted to give factory farmed pigs and chickens new rights under Prop 2 but voted to take rights away from its gay citizens with Prop 8. How was it that one of the bluest states in the Union turned against its progressive values and voted to write discrimination into the state constitution? The [...]... [Tags: californians, chickens, citizens, dilger, discrimination]

InformationWeek says Windows 7 is … Windows XP Classic — Daniel Eran Dilger InformationWeek pundit Mitch Wagner has decided that Windows 7 is bad news for Apple because he’s willing to assume, based on optimistic comments made about the early alpha of the new softare, that Microsoft will solve all of its problems with Vista, “the way the Coca-Cola Company did with New Coke.” Apparently Wagner fails [...]... [Tags: apple, bad news, coca cola, coca cola company, dilger]

Mormons, Fundamentalists, Islamists Back Prop H(8) with Big Bucks — Daniel Eran Hussein Dilger Despite the sagging economy, record numbers of families being evicted from foreclosed homes, and an uptick in unemployment, a coalition of religious extremists has pooled together at least $67 million to push Proposition 8 as a symbolic demonstration of the intolerance and hatred their faith moves them to open their wallets to [...]... [Tags: demonstration, dilger, economy, faith, foreclosed homes]

Apple earnings, profits, and cash embarrass Microsoft — Daniel Eran Dilger While Microsoft executives like to talk about Apple as an insignificant company with less than 5% of the worldwide market share of all PCs and servers sold, the company now has more cash than Microsoft and earns more than half of its profits and over three fourths Microsoft’s revenues. . For the quarter ending in [...]... [Tags: apple, dilger, earnings, microsoft, microsoft executives]

Apple earnings, profits, and cash embarrass Microsoft — Daniel Eran Dilger While Microsoft executives like to talk about Apple as an insignificant company with less than 5% of the worldwide market share of all PCs and servers sold, the company now has more cash than Microsoft and earns more than half of its profits and over three fourths Microsoft’s revenues. . For the quarter ending in [...]... [Tags: apple, dilger, earnings, microsoft, microsoft executives]

It’s not over yet, but we can laugh about it. — Daniel Eran Dilger John McCain and Barack Obama both spoke at the Alfred Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner, delivering a heavy dose of tension-relieving hilarity (really!) that exposed both men as human and honorable, despite their political differences and the vast difference in background and age. Both are well worth watching. McCain: Obama:... [Tags: alfred smith, barack obama, dilger, foundation dinner, heavy dose]

Myth 10: RIM’s BlackBerry Will Contain iPhone Expansion — Daniel Eran Dilger Research in Motion, the Canadian company behind the BlackBerry, has served as the smartphone industry’s darling ever since the company emerged from years of research to set two-way pagers in motion around the new millennium. As a proprietary platform, RIM offers the closest parallel to Apple in the smartphone business. But will RIM and [...]... [Tags: apple, blackberry, darling, dilger, iphone]

Obama-Biden, McCain-Palin: Scandals by the Numbers — Daniel Eran Dilger Scandalous accusations are so hard to process without a smattering of numerical context. Here’s a look at brewing scandals by the numbers for each ticket in the 2008 Presidential Election: Barack Obama and Joe Biden vs. John McCain and Sarah Palin. . Number of links to individuals or groups supporting violent terrorism: Obama: 1 Obama worked next [...]... [Tags: accusations, barack obama, dilger, joe biden, john mccain]

Rebrickulous: Cutting Through The MacBook Rumors — Daniel Eran Dilger After hearing about the “brick,” supposedly an Apple code-name for an unreleased something, the web has gone wild with pundits trying to attach their personal visions for the future with Apple’s capacity to deliver them. These visions make it clear why Apple does not use focus groups to create its products. . The idea got [...]... [Tags: apple, brick, dilger, focus groups, personal visions]

Grading on a Curve in America: the VP Debates — Daniel Eran Dilger America is torn between two identities. We like to think of ourselves as smart when laughing at the foolish behavior of others, but we also express disdain for the smug elite. We like to think of ourselves as fair and compassionate team players while also being rugged free market individualists. What exactly are [...]... [Tags: curve, dilger, disdain, elite, foolish behavior]

Five More iPhone Myths — Daniel Eran Dilger After a hard rumor rain, it’s time to break out the myth mower and buzz down the noise to a lower threshold. Here’s five myths of the iPhone that need a fierce clipping. . 1. Verizon EVDO iPhone Just Around the Corner Sorry, this isn’t going to happen. For starters, we know AT&T has an exclusive [...]... [Tags: amp, buzz, clipping, dilger, iphone]

Ideas for Apple: AirPort Mobile — Daniel Eran Dilger Until Apple introduces its new MacBook line there’s no new official hardware to talk about. That can’t stop us from considering major new areas of business available to the company though. One of the most promising relates to its AirPort wireless products and the potential for sharing ubiquitous WiFi service. . Apple owns a significant [...]... [Tags: apple airport, dilger]

You Want the Truth? You Can’t Handle the Truth! — Daniel Eran Dilger Someone who I am no longer allowed to name has reported that my scoop about Microsoft’s “I’m a PC” ads using Macs was non-noteworthy, while also reporting that Microsoft’s canceled third Seinfeld ad was. The problem is that I reported both publicly a week ago, and the 90,000 visits to RDM on that [...]... [Tags: dilger, macs, microsoft, scoop, truth]

Why is Microsoft Buying Back $40 Billion of its Own Stock? — Daniel Eran Dilger. Warren Buffett outlined one reason why Microsoft is spending another $40 billion buying back its stock over the next half decade (and why HP is also spending $8 billion to buy back its own stock). I’ll outline another. Warren Buffett on Rewarding Failure. In a 2005 letter to shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway, Warren Buffett wrote: Too [...]... [Tags: berkshire hathaway, decade, dilger, hp, letter to shareholders]

Imagine Steve Jobs for President — Daniel Eran Dilger In the final days of 1996, Apple signed the deal to acquire NeXT. Within six months, the company was effectively taken over and began to dramatically change course. America needs a similar transformation today. . In 1996, Jobs wasn’t regarded as a turnaround CEO reformer. He had little recognized experience running a huge corporation. At [...]... [Tags: apple, dilger, president daniel, reformer, six months]

Google’s Android Platform Faces Five Tough Obstacles — Daniel Eran Dilger Google new Android mobile platform has been received by some members of the tech media with such glowing adoration that one might get the impression that Android is destined to waltz into the smartphone business just as surely as Bill Gates’ robotic dance killed off the Seinfeld ads. Here’s five aspects of Android [...]... [Tags: adoration, android, bill gates, dilger, google]

I’m a PC too… touché — Daniel Eran Dilger In its efforts to hijack Apple’s Get a Mac ads and embrace and extend their message to suit itself, Microsoft apparently forgot to actually watch Apple’s clips. User Sigma902 remixed the two for comical effect (well, probably not so funny to Microsoft after it spent $300 million brainstorming it all), but his post [...]... [Tags: apple, dilger, microsoft]

Microsoft’s ‘I’m a PC’ Campaign Keeps Getting Stranger (With Videos) — Daniel Eran Dilger If subliminally advertising Apple’s Macs though implied comparisons wasn’t bad enough, Microsoft’s subsequent ads make the case of Apple’s Get a Mac message even harder in an expanded series of “I’m a PC” ads: “I am Not Alone,” “Stereotype,” and “Our CEO is a Raging Nutcase.” Microsoft $300 Million Ads Microsoft’s Mojave Attempts to Wet [...]... [Tags: apple, ceo, dilger, macs, microsoft]