Mike Mansell

Rumor: 3G iPod Touch Coming This Year?

by Mike Mansell September 19, 2011

If there’s one thing that I’ve learned from following Apple over the last few years it would have to be the fact that the company seems to plan everything (unless you count suppliers for white iPhone components) extremely strategically. Unlike other companies that try to make their innovations as rapidly as possible, Apple, from what [...]

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Why Hasn’t Google Shut Down Orkut Yet?

by Mike Mansell September 16, 2011

During the Google+ hype a few months back it seemed as if everyone was so excited that Google finally had a social network. And while I agree with the fact that Google+ was a substantial milestone for the Internet giant, I couldn’t help but to chuckle at the fact that next to nobody seemed to recognize the [...]

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Facebook Launches Subscriptions. A Jab At Twitter?

by Mike Mansell September 15, 2011

As similar as Facebook and Twitter are in the sense that they’re both social networks that allow users to communicate between, interact with, and stalk follow one-another online, the fact of the matter is that the two sites are entirely different. While Facebook is meant to serve as a mechanism for more “intimate” connections such [...]

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Verizon Introduces Less Than Impressive Pre-Paid Unlimited Service

by Mike Mansell September 14, 2011

As much as I know the word “unlimited” is really over-used in marketing and advertising, I really must admit that I do like the concept of not being tied down to fixed limits with services that I subscribe to. Of course, I understand that even with “unlimited” services there is always some sort of limit [...]

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Will AT&T and Verizon Re-Implement Unlimited Data Plans?

by Mike Mansell September 13, 2011

When it comes to the various sub-sections of the general technology industry, the single most interesting market that I’m following right now is hands-down the mobile industry. Sometimes it really is a bit of a challenge to realize how far innovations in the mobile sector or any other subset of the tech industry for that matter [...]

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Adobe Flash: A Necessary Evil?

by Mike Mansell September 12, 2011

After avoiding Flash for a day, I’ve come to the conclusion that Adobe’s Flash platform is an important part of the Internet as we know it today.

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Google’s Acquisition of Zagat Should Scare Yelp

by Mike Mansell September 9, 2011

From the perspective of a tech blogger I can safely tell you that there have been countless times where companies have made decisions that I have had no choice but to question. Sometimes my crucial outlook on business moves has been proven wrong, and I’m not shameful in the least to admit that I, like [...]

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Windows 8 to Run Windows Phone Applications

by Mike Mansell September 8, 2011

Anyone who remotely follows Microsoft’s release cycle of the Windows operating system has likely noticed the somewhat obvious fact that Microsoft’s success with each release is spotty at best. Sure, Windows 7 has been on the market for a while now and has achieved a pretty outstanding adoption rate and has earned a killer reputation [...]

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Will A Google Acquisition of Hulu Provide Worthwhile Synergy?

by Mike Mansell September 7, 2011

If there’s one aspect of our day-to-day lives that I am sure will change dramatically over the next few years I honestly think that thing would be television. I mean, think of what TV was like fifty years ago – a bulky little box with bunny-ears and a black-and-white picture that families circled around in [...]

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Baidu Forks Android, Teams With Dell for Yi OS

by Mike Mansell September 6, 2011

Exactly two months ago I talked about a new partnership that U.S.-based Microsoft Corporation teaming up with China-based search engine Baidu to provide English results in a move that many like myself thought would ultimately make Baidu a potentially solid competitor to Google; not only in China, but in the United States and other English-speaking [...]

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