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 […]
Author: Michael Rowe
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, […]
Yesterday’s windows phone launch event
Well…it has happened, Microsoft has launched windows phone 8(?). Unfortunately I missed the event, and have been a bit overloaded with my day job. I plan on trying to do as much reading Ho in the news this week, and try to distill it for the blog here. (Now I just need a few more […]
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 […]
Next Week is Big
Over the last month I’ve seen a lot of talk about the upcoming rumored iPad mini, Windows Phone, and Samsung’s latest device. All of these seem to be coming to a head next week. October 23rd is Apple’s something little event, Samsung is expected to announce the Galaxy Note II on the 24th, Microsoft Announces […]
Read Me
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Windows 8 and the phone
It appears that Windows Phone SDK is finally getting released at the end of this month. I’ve been looking at a lot of different reports lately about the amount of apps by platform, the growth by platform, and popularity of various other aspects. To that end, whenever I see these reports I think “would I, […]