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Is the iPhone and iPad the new Macintosh?

Recall back in the early eighties when the Macintosh came out. It was the coolest computing device, with its then revolutionary point-and-click graphical user interface (GUI) and compact stylish exterior that could pass off as a trendy furniture piece in any artiste’s living room. Alongside it in what was then the Wild Wild West personal [...]

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Android popularity soars with over 500,000 activated each day

Over 500,000 Android devices are now activated each day around the world, CNET news reported citing Google’s Android head Andy Rubin’s Twitter post. Activations are growing at a rate of 4.4 percent week-over-week, the post said. That figure becomes all the more staggering when one considers that just last month at Google’s I/O Conference, the [...]

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Microsoft: WebGL Considered Harmful

About a month ago, I posted a note here about some security concerns with the new WebGL graphics API, designed to allow browsers that support the HTML 5 standard to produce 2-D and 3-D graphics without the use of plugins.  Context Information Security, a security consulting firm based in the UK, had published a report [...]

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Only Samsung Can Beat Apple

We were looking for a company which can take Apple head-on, not with cryptic business policies (something Microsoft and Apple are used to — by suing competitors over bogus patents), but with competitive, innovative products. I was looking up at Dell as the company which could beat Apple in the optimized PC experience segment with using Linux (Ubuntu) [...]

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