September 2011

RIM Should Make the Move to Android

by Mike Mansell September 30, 2011

RIM isn’t getting anywhere in the smartphone market, would the move to Android-based BlackBerry’s help the company in an uphill battle against Apple.

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The Kindle Fire: This Season’s Hot Tablet?

by Mike Mansell September 29, 2011

What do you get when you combine Amazon’s well-established “Kindle” eBook reader with the power and flexibility of Google’s Android mobile operating system on an elegantly designed seven-inch full-color touch-screen tablet? As this week has shown us, the answer to this question is Amazon’s new “Kindle Fire”; a much awaited tablet computer that offers a competitive [...]

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Sprint to Kill Off Unlimited Data?

by Mike Mansell September 27, 2011

While Sprint has long built the company image around its unlimited data plans, Sprint’s CTO says that may change in the future.

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iPhone Sales Down Pending Release of iPhone 5

by Mike Mansell September 27, 2011

As a blogger I rely heavily on numbers and solid facts to be able to form the opinions, viewpoints, and commentary that I share with readers like yourself. Even though my job as a blogger doesn’t typically ask me to prepare numbers and statistics on my own, the fact of the matter is that without [...]

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Amazon’s Tablet the Kindle Fire Designed After the PlayBook?

by Jeff Weisbein September 26, 2011

According to Ryan Block over at gdgt, Amazon’s new tablet set to be announced this Wednesday is in fact built by the same people who built the RIM PlayBook. How is that the case you ask? According to Block’s sources, RIM originally outsourced a substantial amount of the hardware design and production of the PlayBook to [...]

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The AdSense +1 Button is a Win-Win for Everyone

by Mike Mansell September 26, 2011

When Google announced that their AdSense service, the ad platform used by thousands of advertisers and implemented on countless websites throughout the Internet, was going to add the +1 button for social recommendations on advertisements, I was initially very critical of the move. Sure, Jeff had previously made a very good point when writing about the [...]

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How To: Customize the Mac OS X Menu Bar

by Jeff Weisbein September 25, 2011

Have you ever wanted to customize your Mac OS X menu bar? Tired of the transparent white menu bar at the top of your screen? Perhaps you want a sleek black menu bar. Well, good news. Now you can have one. MenuBarFilter is an extremely lightweight app with only one purpose. It changes the color [...]

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Despite Lackluster Performance RIM Is Still King of the Enterprise Market

by Mike Mansell September 23, 2011

The other day I came across an article that immediately caught my attention. The article discussed the fact that RIM’s BlackBerry product line has begun to fall behind in the business mobile sector. While I’ve been pretty critical of BlackBerry devices in the past, this article has definitely given me a bit of a new perspective on [...]

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Windows 8 Will Impact Microsoft’s Presence Even Outside of the Desktop

by Mike Mansell September 23, 2011

Considering Microsoft’s on-off history with releasing successful operating systems it shouldn’t come as much of a surprise that Microsoft’s success with the Windows platform from here on out (in a world where Apple is thriving and consumer-focused Linux distributions are popping up like advertisements for Internet Explorer users) rests on their ability to make another [...]

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