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After Apple’s “Antennagate” press event on Friday left the tech press J-School flunkies murmuring about having no carcass left on the horse to kick, there was still an air of apprehension going into Tuesday’s earnings conference call. Would the 3 day window between the release of the iPhone 4 and the end of the quarter [...]

TMA once had a dream of ubiquitous media that required 2 things Apple lacked: a buttload of server capacity and a codec that would make HD streaming bandwidth-friendly. Last year, Apple started work on a monster server farm in North Carolina. I speculated of the high-definition Red codec under development at the time: If this [...]

Google announced that they’ve received their very last shipment of Nexus Ones, the only phone that currently runs the latest version of the Android operating system. It also happens to be the only phone that doesn’t include craptastic UI overlays like “Sense” and “Blur”. Google is no longer interested in cutting out the manufacturer and [...]

The iPhone was released in 2007. This winter, Microsoft’s response, Windows Phone 7, will be released with no cut and paste, no multitasking and no Flash.  Microsoft has a history of stanching the arterial bleeding of its piss-poor consumer electronics with cash from its successful Windows, Office and Server businesses, so releasing a mediocre 1.0 [...]

On June 7, John Ciancutti, VP of Personalization Technology for Netflix announced the availability of Netflix for the iPhone “this summer”. A month later, not a word more about the port. The topic’s discussion thread on the Netflix board is filled with “where is it?” posts with nary a peep from management in reply. So [...]

Tech’s most popular head-to-head pairing, Apple vs. Google, is a battle originating and fought mainly on the mobile phone battlefield. The iPhone OS and hardware are made by Apple, and despite its problems with AT&T in the U.S., its carrier relationship is the envy of every other phone maker in the industry. This integration of [...]

If you believe any of the whining you hear from famous actors about life in the spotlight, it’s tough to be popular. For every person that wants to be like you is someone who wants to tear you down. Witness this any time you’re waiting at the checkout in the supermarket. Mostly marginally-talented people have [...]

With the recent Kin debacle, some people who talk about tech for a living have started to look at Microsoft as a company that might actually suck. Whispers about the company’s slow demise can be heard as far as the hallowed halls of ZDNet and Computerworld. Somewhere, the riders of the apocalypse are saddling their [...]

Excellent article by Daniel Eran Dilger on why it makes zero sense for Apple to release a CDMA version of  the iPhone with Verizon – or even maintain it as a skunkworks project. The money paragraph: The top 15 global mobile carriers handle around 3,000 million subscribers, and they’re all GSM/UMTS carriers. Below Verizon and [...]

Microsoft sure is getting good at killing products. Last month it was the non-product Courier, which got some significant starring roles in animations that were leaked to the tech press around the time of the iPad’s launch. This month Redmond is putting its recently-released Kin phones out to pasture – less than 2 months after [...]