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Friday
Feb182011

Interview: Nokia CEO Stephen Elop

Nokia CEO Stephen Elop talks Microsoft, Symbian, MeeGo, and Windows Phone

Tuesday
Feb152011

The three-horse smartphone race

The last week has seen a lot of action in the mobile space. HP announced its upcoming webOS line-up, Nokia finally dropped the charade that it has any meaningful mobile OS plans and teamed up with Microsoft, and rumours emerged that Apple is making a mini iPhone to target low-end shoppers. Yes, things are really heating up in the mobile space.

Many pundits have framed this battle as a three-way contest involving Apple, Google, and Nokia-soft, all but writing off RIM and HP as viable players in this future battle. On the surface, it seems reasonable to do so.

Apple and Google are both already shipping popular phones and gaining significant market share. Meanwhile, Nokia—although not a leader in the smartphone OS race—still has volume; by default, it will get Windows based phones to millions of users.

This leaves us with the so-called losers: RIM and HP. Both companies are currently shipping phones, but neither has offerings with significant consumer demand. RIM holds onto market share via its lock-in with enterprises and a core group of consumers who love BlackBerry messenger. HP is barely on anyone’s radar and, with no new products till summer, that’s not going to change anytime soon.

So are the pundits right? Is this a three-horse race that RIM and HP are destined to lose?

Sunday
Feb132011

HP webOS relaunch

HP webOS: Think Beyond Event (February 9th, 2011)

Helpful timecodes:

09:40 - Introducing the Veer and Pre3
22:30 - Introducing the TouchPad
28:40 - TouchPad and Pre3 feature demonstration
1:37:00 - About the future of webOS

Thursday
Sep232010

Interview with Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google 

Wednesday
Sep222010

The Social Network EP

The Social Network is a new movie which loosely follows the rise of Facebook and its founders. Trent Reznor (one of my favorite artists) along with Atticus Ross have created the soundtrack to this movie. 

Luckily for us they are giving away a five track sampler EP