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Fraud science used to promote Flash performance over web standards

Daniel Eran Dilger

A report purporting to vindicate the performance of Adobe’s Flash plugin in comparison to open standards broke through the weak editorial barriers of the tech community yesterday. It’s wrong, here’s why.
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March 11, 2010   162 Comments

Microsoft Courier: the third weak link in a miserable mobile strategy

Microsoft Courier history

Daniel Eran Dilger

Microsoft’s Courier concept has rapidly evolved over the last three years, but in rather random directions. It now says it will have the product finished by the end of 2010, an extremely ambitious goal for a company that simply could not deliver its last several product concepts within a year of announcing ETAs, including the Surface and Windows Mobile 7.

The problem is, even if Microsoft ships the Courier at some point, it will still suffer from the company’s randomly aimed shotgun strategy for delivering a viable mobile platform.

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March 5, 2010   32 Comments

Podcast: Apple vs HTC over Android patent infringement

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Gene Steinberg of the Tech Night Owl invited me to talk about Apple’s patent suit against smartphone maker HTC.

You can tune into the live broadcast stream Thursday nights from 6:00 to 8:00 PM Pacific, 9:00 to 11:00 PM Eastern, at http://www.technightowl.com/radio/. An archive of the show will be available for downloading and listening at your convenience within four hours after the original broadcast.

You can also access the show’s Podcast feed, now available at: http://www.technightowl.com/nightowl.xml.

Listen here, pull up earlier podcast episodes via iTunes, and subscribe to the Tech Night Owl RSS feed at:

The Tech Night Owl LIVE with Gene Steinberg
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March 4, 2010   2 Comments

Why Apple is suing HTC rather than Google or Android

Daniel Eran Dilger

Apple’s patent assault on HTC (the maker of most Android and Windows Mobile phones) has gotten the tech media in a tizzy. Why isn’t Apple taking on Google or Android instead, and is this action the sign of a tough new Apple that hates Google and open source and wants to kill Android? That’s all wrong, here’s why.
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March 3, 2010   78 Comments

Tech: Hot & Cool 1 – Dealing with poor cellular service: from AT&T 3G MicroCell to WiEx Zboost XY-510

Daniel Eran Dilger & KharaCara

On our search to find the hottest and coolest stuff in the tech world, we investigate AT&T’s terrible service for US iPhone users, the 3G MicroCell you can’t get in AT&T’s worst service markets of New York and San Francisco, and a product from Wi-Ex called the Zboost XY-510.

AppleInsider | Video First Look: WiEx zBoost XY-510 cellular booster
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March 3, 2010   26 Comments

Ten Myths of Apple’s iPad: 10. It needs Mac OS X

February 26, 2010   64 Comments

Special Report: Why I can’t report on the Apple shareholder meeting

YouTube – Special Report: Why I can’t report on the Apple shareholder meeting

Daniel Eran Dilger

A series of tragic circumstances related to Apple’s shareholder meeting yesterday has resulted in problems only you the reader can help solve. So I’m enlisting your help.
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February 26, 2010   42 Comments

Apple shareholder meeting tomorrow

Daniel Eran Dilger

Apple’s shareholder meeting is coming up tomorrow morning in Cupertino. I’m in San Francisco and need a ride! So if you’re headed along the same path tomorrow and want to let me tag along in your car please contact me. My bike is wrecked and I still don’t have a replacement driver’s license, so I can’t rent a car tomorrow.

Also, if you have any good questions to pose to Apple’s board, please suggest them. Keep in mind that having good questions to ask won’t help if I can’t get down there! Thanks – (and myth ten is on the way soon…)

February 24, 2010   26 Comments

An Adobe Flash developer on why the iPad can’t use Flash

Daniel Eran Dilger

Morgan Adams, an interactive content developer who knows a lot about building Flash, wrote in with an interesting perspective on Flash and the iPad. The remainder of this piece is his comments on the subject.

Inside Apple’s iPad: Adobe Flash
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February 20, 2010   207 Comments

Ten Myths of Apple’s iPad: 2. It needs Flash, segment 2

February 19, 2010   10 Comments

Ten Myths of Apple’s iPad: 9. It can’t multitask

February 17, 2010   124 Comments

Podcast: What’s interesting about the iPad

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Gene Steinberg of the Tech Night Owl invited me to talk about what’s notable in Apple’s iPad. Listen here, pull up earlier podcast episodes via iTunes, and subscribe to the Tech Night Owl RSS feed at:

The Tech Night Owl LIVE with Gene Steinberg
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February 11, 2010   8 Comments

Ten Myths of Apple’s iPad: 8. It’s a curse for mobile developers

February 11, 2010   38 Comments

Ten Myths of Apple’s iPad: 7. It needs cameras

February 9, 2010   73 Comments

Ten Myths of Apple’s iPad: 6. It needs HDMI for HD video output

February 8, 2010   38 Comments