Android

Amazon just dropped a bomb on the technology world in the form of a cross-platform cloud music player. This is at once a game-changing move in the Internet storage and backup world dominated by players like EMC, in the Internet Music world…

Interview with Michael Whalen In this issue of The Institutional Risk Analyst, we speak to Michael Whalen, Emmy award winning composer and new media observer, about the outlook for the business of creating and delivering content. …

Here's a CNBC Asia video that tells the story of the rise of the smartphone as a phone and computing device. I have been on this story for sometime. My view is that, just as computers have become super cheap (they were expensive once. I…

To my eyes, this is looking like a repeat of the Macintosh-PC Wars of the 1990s which Apple lost. On the one side, you have Apple, competing at the high end and very concerned about platform integrity and control, and preventing other…

Apple had a blowout quarter on sales of iPhones and iPads when they reported after the bell. Steve Jobs went absolutely ballistic on Google during the conference call. His message: "We think Android is very, very fragmented and…

Topic of the Day: Apple's Strategy How Apple Dominates (In Slides) - Tech Crunch The iPad's Threat to PCs - Barrons.com How Google's Android Could Overtake Apple's iPhone - Barrons.com The Usual Fare Jesse's Café Américain:…

In my last technology post, I wrote that we are moving to an Internet-centric world where your computing device or operating system are less important because your data will live and breathe in the Internet cloud. Google, in particular, is…

Right now, we are watching what I believe is a game changing power struggle in the technology world as we move to a cloud computing, platform-independent world. It pits Google and its ubiquitous presence on the Net against Apple and its…

Apple doesn't get it.  Yes, the iPhone is still the standard bearer amongst smartphones. Yes, you can now get a 16GB 3GS iPhone for as little as $97 at Wal-Mart of all places. Yes, the iPhone is clearly still the dominant smartphone.…

I want to take a break from banking and macro stuff and talk a little bit about technology. I wrote an article about Android a few weeks back. That was a more personal account on why I was switching from a Windows Mobile phone to Android,…