Archive For

March 2013

Windows on ARM – Blue Phoenix

(RFM will return on Wednesday April 3rd)           Windows RT in its current form looks doomed.  When Samsung pulls its RT...

Intel TV – Chip magnet

          Intel’s aspirations in TV are about supplying chips. Intel appears to be closing in on acquiring TV shows and movies...

Ecosystems – Here comes George Orwell

          Digital Life has an increasingly Orwellian future. The big ecosystem creators are slowly but inexorably nudging users towards their ecosystems....

Dell– Not so sweet

          There is no upside in Dell without risk. The “go-shop” period has produced two additional bids, but investors are going...

Android in China– No Google here

          The China ecosystem is coming.  Android is currently exploding in China but there are plenty of signs that this is...

Mobile Chat – The Culture Line

          Exporting services from Japan is a license to lose money.  NHN Corp, South Korea’s biggest internet company, is making a...

Microsoft – Too brute a force

          Microsoft has loads of money but no clue how to use it.  Paying developers to write applications is a well-known...

ST Ericsson – End of the road

          ST Ericsson has effectively committed suicide with its inability to execute.   After failing to find a buyer, ST Ericsson...

Google Reader– The boring truth

          Google Reader has gone because it is not big enough. That’s all. The retirement of Google Reader has nothing to...

Samsung Galaxy S4– All the rage

          The Galaxy only evolves slightly but it makes iPhone 5 look more and more out of date. Samsung launched the...