Article archive - page 5

A telling quarter for Android
Sunday, June 27th 2010
Most people looking at the mobile and smart phone sector focus on unit sales as an indicator of performance - I suggest that one also needs to look at apps. The number of available apps is a metric that shows developer…
Why Google is a more "typical" business than you think
Wednesday, June 23rd 2010
There's been some interesting reportage over the last couple of weeks around whether Google's decision to remove Windows from internal use as a supported desktop has wider ramifications for the future of Windows in…
Adobe - Narayen's kingdom for a plan...
Tuesday, April 13th 2010
Adobe's public fracas with Apple over lack of Flash on iThings and Google open sources V8 - it's been a tough couple of weeks for Adobe with no signs of getting better. Cries of "My kingdom for a plan" may just about to…
An Open Internet call to arms
Tuesday, March 23rd 2010
Having watched the trainwreck that is the Australian Internet Filter and Senator Conroy's single minded obsession to go down in history as the "man who removed free speech from Australia" I can't help but notice two…
iPad - ALMOST great
Thursday, January 28th 2010
The iPad hardware is outstanding in its simplicity but is a little weak presently on the software but will get better.
2010: The year the Netbook turns into the Web-book
Sunday, January 3rd 2010
2010 is set to be a bumper year for Consumer Electronics. With people spending less outside the home they are focusing more inside and as just about everyone now has some monstrous TV it's the little things that count…
Why I'm interested in AWS Spot Prices for EC2
Tuesday, December 22nd 2009
There's been a lot of chatter going on around the intertubes over the last couple of weeks since Amazon Web Services released their Spot Instances pricing model for EC2. In a nutshell - AWS have created a compute market…
2010 will be the year Apple and Google have a cage fight
Sunday, December 20th 2009
The pre-match slanging is pretty much over and the location of the fight has been chosen. 2010 is going to be the year Apple and Google finally stop dancing around and actually get in the ring. Unlike a nice clean…
SPDY could gain acceptence - with some innovation
Friday, November 13th 2009
Google have announced some early findings about their research into a faster protocol to reduce latency times due to good old fashioned HTTP. HTTP was designed as a really simple protocol to delivery (primarily) text…
AdMob purchase opens door to new funding models
Monday, November 9th 2009
The AdMob purchase by Google paves the way for some interesting developer funding opportunities