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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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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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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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Review: Crimson Case for iPhone 4

by Jeff Weisbein September 5, 2011

If there is one type of press release or review request I get a lot of, there is no doubt that I would put iPhone accessories towards the top of the list. However, while I do get a lot of them, it’s rare that I take up offer to review the product and/or share the [...]

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Why I Avoid the Mac App Store

by Mike Mansell August 29, 2011

When I first heard that Apple was working to put out an “App Store” for Mac OS X following the incredible success that the company had with a venture of the same name and stature on the iOS platform I was initially very excited. Such an organized system for buying, downloading, and updating software seemed [...]

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7 Reasons I (Finally) Updated to Lion

by Mike Mansell August 26, 2011

I didn’t want to do it. Really, I didn’t. After having bought my first Mac and fallen in love with the clean and crisp user interface of Mac OS X (10.6, Snow Leopard) I was less than eager to update to the latest version (Lion) when it came out last month. Don’t get me wrong, [...]

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I’m Confident Apple Will Continue to Grow, Even Now That Jobs Left the Throne

by Mike Mansell August 25, 2011

Having had been away from my computer for a good chunk of the afternoon yesterday I was pretty surprised to see a pile of unread messages in my Twitter feed that far surpassed the “regular” number of messages I’d see after such an amount of time. “Wow,” I thought to myself, “did the east-coast have [...]

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HP’s New Strategy: If You Can’t Beat Them, Undercut Them

by Mike Mansell August 11, 2011

How do you compete with the iPad? For a while now it has seemed as if manufacturers have had their heads in the sand and haven’t been able to figure out the answer to this simple question, but this week HP took up the a new approach which I honestly think will help them gain a much better edge in the tablet industry. If you can’t beat them, undercut them.

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Should Apple Be Better-Protecting Developer Previews?

by Mike Mansell August 8, 2011

As a user of Apple’s Mac OS X desktop operating system one of the things that I personally find to be most appealing about the entire “Mac experience” is the fact that there are so many independent developers out there who make flat-out fantastic applications for the system. Sure, I love the product that are [...]

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Next Generation iPhone Will Crush the Competition

by Mike Mansell August 3, 2011

In business there is nothing better than winning over new customers. After all, when your product or service is of quality enough to gain serious traction in your industry you can pretty much be certain that you have done something right. However, even winning over a customer isn’t always a surefire guarantee of long-term success. [...]

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