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Consumer technology, including gadgets of all size and shape, are increasingly driving enterprise technology. Track this critical mega-trend here.
For many of you Android fans, Aldiko (the free epub/pdf/ebook reader) is an app that you use daily. One of my favorite things about Aldiko is that it is easy to use. I can find epubs all over the place, send them to my Dropbox and easily open them on any Android device. This is great, if you only use one device, or only read one book per device. But if you're like me, and have too many devices, this doesn't work. That's why there is Aldiko Sync. … [Read more...]
While Apple recorded their best quarter ever, Samsung and Google released the most impressive smartphone to date. Appearing on the Verizon network with LTE radios in the US, as well GSM w/ HSDPA+ radios internationally, the Galaxy Nexus is the most groundbreaking phone available. The mix of 32GB internal storage, a dual-core TI OMAP processor, Android 4.0, a beautiful 720p 4.65" screen and high-speed 4G networks make it the phone to measure to. … [Read more...]
Apple Inc just had their first $40B quarter ever - to the tune of $46B dollars in revenue. They sold 37M iPhones, 15M iPads and 15M iPods. Additionally, they sold 5M Mac computers. These numbers are ridiculous. Right now Apple is stacking away a ton of cash - so much so that it makes the $100M they wasted on a spurious lawsuit against HTC merely a drop in the bucket. These numbers are astounding - but are actually not surprising. In this quarter, … [Read more...]
Here are a few recent links of note on cybersecurity and disruptive technology: The Cyber Power Index by Booze Allen Hamilton. The G20 are ranked by their potency in cyber, determined by their legal and regulatory framework, economic and social context, technology infrastructure, and industry application. The United States is ranked second with the United Kingdom surprisingly first and China in 13th place. This tool is interactive and, if you … [Read more...]
I recently purchased the Logitech Revue with Google TV. I absolutely love it. It's one of the coolest ways to interact with TV to date, and offers the best overall interface for digesting internet streams as well. It is not as simple and intuitive as the Roku boxes, nor as pretty as the Apple TV, yet it is more powerful and capable than both. The Google TV comes with a crazy remote - it's a full sized wireless keyboard with touchpad, yet that's not the … [Read more...]
2011 Was definitely the year of mobile and gadget explosion. Our favorite devices became more capable, widespread and cheaper than ever. WiMax fell by the wayside as LTE and HSPDA+ protocols replaced them – the latter just a placeholder until LTE networks could be rolled out. We got some awesome new tablets, some great updates to our favorite mobile OS's and killer new smartphones. We found that cable cutting is possible -- just not if you're a sports … [Read more...]
When I first got my hands on the Droid RAZR I was more than a little in awe. It just looks SO cool. The harsh lines, the beveled screen, it is a really sharp looking phone. I normally don't care what any phone looks like, but I was really impressed by the design work (from a visual standpoint) on the RAZR. The phone internals are impressive as well, a 1.2GHz Texas Instruments OMAP dual-core processor with 1GB RAM, 16GB internal memory and a 16GB SD card, … [Read more...]
So Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) and the Galaxy Nexus have finally arrived. It has taken a while (and taken me some major wrangling w/ VZW to get one) but I have it in my hands, and I couldn't be happier about it. I don't wish to review Android 4.0, but rather talk about the Galaxy Nexus itself. It is an excellent looking device, reminiscent of the iPhone 3G in it's form, but without the "home" button. There are no buttons on the screen, but rather … [Read more...]
Welcome and Happy Holidays! We here at CTOvision wanted to provide some of our favorite gadgets as suggestions for presents. While this is a little late, there's always Amazon Prime (or Gizmodo's final ship dates here). We tried to put together the devices that we think are the best in their class, while highlighting some technologies for certain "stereotypes" in your lives! Tablet: Transformer Prime/iPad2 32GB ($500, $550). The Prime (our … [Read more...]
Recently, Apple announced their purchase of Israeli flash memory producer, Anobit. The proposed purchase would be $500M (just a drop in the bucket of their $81B cash reserves). However, this purchase has long-reaching implications on not only their mobile/tablet portfolio, but also their computing capabilities. Mobile/Tablet Implications Apple has long insisted that removeable media was unnecessary, and have kept it out of their products. However, … [Read more...]