Author: Michael Rowe

App development and promotion

One of the big things I keep trying to figure out is why so many of the popular apps tend to be developed on the west coast of the US. I don’t mean the Angry Birds of the world (which are built and grow so popular due to their first in class status), but I […]

Books I am reading now

I tend to buy a lot of technical books, and I read many of them. Very free of them are just used as reference, Right now I am take a break on the technical books and am re-reading the Hobbit in time for the upcoming movie. So what books am currently in progress on? Two […]

Can Mobile Save your local Newspaper?

I’ve been thinking about Newsweek’s announcement last month – “Newsweek goes all digital” and the implications to newsprint, which has been struggling for many years. The New York Times has been providing both Digital and Printed material for some time, and has erected a paywall around much of their digital content. It seems that their […]

Windows Phone 8 Launch

After a week of work overload and ending up getting sick on top of it, I finally had a chance to watch the video stream of Monday’s Windows Phone 8 announcement – Thank you TWiT specials for hosting a stream I could watch after the fact.  I got to see Joe Belfiore  present via the stream, […]

Microsoft’s Surface RT

Well today I had a bit of time to watch the Microsoft Surface announcement from New York, and I have to say, I was impressed by what I saw.  I’ve been hoping that someone would help push Apple on the tablet side.  The team did a great job of building excitement during the presentation, and […]

Samsung – Galaxy Note II

Well today is supposed to be the day that you can finally get the Galaxy Note II in the US. I’ve been looking and have not seen any big announcements, other than a great review by PC Mag. I don’t use T-Mobile for my carrier so, I don’t have any way of confirming how well […]

Blocks

Template Blocks This is a sample of paragraph text created with a text block. You can use the editor to emphasize words, bold a word or phrase, link to another page or website, or style a quote. “Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that’s […]

1st Announcement of this week

Well, Apple has done it again… They have messed with my upgrade cycle.  I had decided that I would be on a 1 year cycle for iPad upgrades, and they put out a new 4th Gen iPad before the year is up. The new A6x chip and the Lightning adapter are the things that will […]