Steven Hodson
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The PC is Dead! Long Live the PC!
The recent proclamation that the PC is dead and we are living in something called a “Post-PC world” are little more than some self-serving hyperbole. Just to clarify: PC actually stands for personal computer and if we go with that accepted terminology, that should mean that given the proliferation of things like tablets, laptops, and smartphones; which can ...
Infographic: A History of the Modem
I still remember my very first modem, and the pound of flesh that it cost to buy it. But hey, I was on the cutting edge, and I upgraded as often as I could. Of course, running one of the few bulletin board services (BBS) in the area meant having to make sure that I ...
National Geographic Amazes Mall Shoppers with Augmented Reality
Recently NatGeo combined forces with Appshaker to put together a touring augmented reality show that visited shopping malls around Hungary where people could interact with everything from T-Rex to an astronaut walking around in his space suit. This is pretty awesome – hat’s off to both Appshaker and National Geographic. [Cross-posted at Winextra]
Ripples: The Perfect Example of How Google+ is Built for Marketers and Data Geeks
Google just turned a really cool new feature in Google+. It is called “Ripples” and it’s a pretty interesting way of visualizing how posts or other stuff shared to the network gets shared and travels through the Google+ universe. While it is still rolling out, being able to see Ripples for any individual post is ...
Microsoft Posts Record Revenues – Again. Not Bad for a Dinosaur
The Q1 report for Microsoft is out and guess what – another record revenue quarter is in the bag. I always get a kick out of those tech pundits that love to smack talk about Microsoft, yet ignore the company when it comes to any discussions about technology and the future. The fact is that ...
Is OmniTouch Microsoft’s Next Kinect Moment?
Microsoft has a knack for showing off some pretty interesting technology. Some of it is kind of on the “WTH! are they thinking” side; but then come things like Kinect, which has taken off in ways that I don’t think even Microsoft foresaw. Following the Kinect line of innovation instead of the PocketTouch ridiculousness, Microsoft showed ...
This is the Type of Poll Microsoft is Hoping for with Windows Phone
There are a lot of polls and surveys that seem to pop up daily that proclaim the winners and losers in the mobile space, and for the most part, the tech pundits have had lots of fun rubbing Microsoft’s nose in those poll results. However one of the things that Microsoft has been hoping for ...
Ideas from Microsoft’s Courier Project Show Up in an iPad App
Trust the eagle eye of Long Zheng to catch this one; but it seems that there must have been some good parts of the cancelled Courier project from Microsoft after all, as some user interface similarities have shown up in a new iPad app called “Clibe”. After doing some digging Long found out that the ...
Microsoft Calling for Beta Testers for the New Xbox Metro-Style dashboard
Metro is permeating through just about every product in Microsoft’s arsenal and word came out during the last week that even the Xbox 360 would be getting a Metro make-over. According to the rumor, Microsoft was supposed to start taking beta tester applications in pretty short order so that the new Xbox 360 user interface ...
Windows Phone Manufacturers Committing More Marketing Dollars and Training
If we can point to one thing that has held back any serious adoption of Windows Phone, it would have to be the utter lack of marketing cooperation from both the smartphone manufacturers and the carriers. Tie that in with retail staff that are either totally ignorant about Windows Phone or intentionally steering consumers away ...