Mike Mansell

Firefox Losing Market Share Quickly to Rival Browsers

by Mike Mansell October 3, 2011

June 18th of 2008 was a very big day for me and millions of savvy Internet users around the world. Although never being the kind of person to get overly excited for release dates, I took a special exception for this event; getting up early and immediately firing up my computer in sheer anticipation of [...]

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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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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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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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I’m Skeptical About the Future of Bing

by Mike Mansell September 21, 2011

After spending to years and billions of dollars to build Bing, Microsoft doesn’t have much to show for it. Which is why I’m skeptical about the future of Bing.

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Qwikster: A Rushed and Reactive Launch

by Mike Mansell September 20, 2011

With everything in our day-to-day lives having become focused more and more around our connection and utilization of the Internet in the last few years, there’s not a single part of me that thinks Netflix – the online streaming service that started its venture with DVD-by-mail service – would still be around today had they [...]

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