This Week In Mobile
The Galaxy Gear 2 will be unveiled in London in March or April and look nothing like the original
The Galaxy Gear 2 will be unveiled in London in March or April and look nothing like the original Samsung is said to be preparing to unveil the successor to the Gear in either March or April at an event in London. Said watch will have a flexible OLED screen, and it will look “totally …
Microsoft paying Android users to use Bing
Microsoft paying Android users to use Bing The “Bing Rewards” program was launched in Q3 2010 and offered to give people virtual currency that they could then convert to gift cards or charitable donations simply for using Bing. Recently, that program was extended to Android and iOS. One has to ask: Why does Microsoft continue to compete …
Microsoft Said to Be Preparing to Make Satya Nadella CEO
Microsoft Said to Be Preparing to Make Satya Nadella CEO One would hope that, if Nadella is the choice, it might mark an actual moment of focus for Microsoft – ie choosing to go all in on their cloud services as a way forward. Microsoft has a solid stack with Azure, and a ton of …
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Nest Team Will Become Google’s Core Hardware Group | TechCrunch
Nest Team Will Become Google’s Core Hardware Group | TechCrunch This report from TechCrunch would seem to bolster Gruber’s comments from earlier. It definitely seems they are serious in using Nest to build consumer devices. But that means there’s no way of spinning Motorola as anything but an abysmal failure. Motorola was purchased for OVER …
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Major League Baseball Rolling Out Thousands of iBeacons for Opening Day
Major League Baseball Rolling Out Thousands of iBeacons for Opening Day MLB is expanding its iBeacon rollout to 20 of its ballparks by opening day. They had previously run a pilot program at Citi field, which apparently went well. We can’t say this enough. If you are in retail and you’re not currently developing a …
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Daring Fireball: That’s No Lemonade. That’s a Space Station.
Daring Fireball: That’s No Lemonade. That’s a Space Station. And yet another counterpoint to the splitting of Googlerola. John Gruber is not buying any positive spin on the sale of Motorola and he raises what pundits said about Google buying Nest as evidence of Google’s consumer device aspirations. We have to agree. It can’t be …
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Google’s Tasty Lemonade – stratēchery by Ben Thompson
Google’s Tasty Lemonade – stratēchery by Ben Thompson A semi-contrarian view on the Motorola sale from Ben Thompson. He agrees the initial purchase was crazy, but admires Google for getting a lot of value from what was a big mistake. Interesting how he links this to Google’s recent deal with Samsung.
Ecosystem maths
Ecosystem maths Excellent “back of an envelope” analysis of Apple and the ecosystem of iOS against the larger backdrop of the entire smartphone/tablet market and Android. Benedict expands on this in one of the recent Cubed podcasts where he said “Apple and Google have both won the smartphone/tablet ecosystem wars in that they both pretty …
