
Cisco Just Kicked iPad Out of Enterprise Market With Cisco Cius
Cisco Live is going on at Las vegas and I just watched the keynote by John Chambers, their CEO. The turn around by Cisco is impressive and they are really onto something with their video strategy. Today Cisco announced their new tablet strategy bringing telepresence to the reach of Joes and Janes like myself and […]

Only in California: Electronic License Plates May Turn Your Car Into a Billboard
Here’s proof that Governments’ creativity in finding new revenue sources is unlimited, reports The Merc: The California Legislature is considering a bill that would allow the state to begin researching the use of electronic license plates for vehicles. The move is intended as a moneymaker for a state facing a $19 billion deficit. The device […]

Ungrateful iBozos, Stop the Whining. Get a (i)Life.
<sarcasm> I’m sick of all this whining within the iFamily. These iBozos just don’t appreciate all the goodness they have. iPhone preorder systems failed. So what? You’ve just saved a boatload of money, be happy, get a life! Yet another At&T security breach. What’s the big deal? All your data is public anyway, has been […]

AT&T’s Tiered Plans: Killing Of Mobile Innovation Or Opportunity For Others
Image by Getty Images via @daylife AT&T shocked the iPad users this week with an announcement that it will eliminate the unlimited data plan they offer now. In fact, this unlimited, no contract plan was one of the reasons many people, including me, bought iPad 3G in the first place. Even though many will not […]

Will the Dell Streak Flop? In Search of the Sweet Spot.
In a few days you can plunk down $500 to buy this beauty directly from Dell. Or you can spend the same amount and get the Real Thing – the iPad. Or you can buy the HTC EVO. And that’s the problem with the Streak. It’s neither a tablet, nor a phone. Of course not […]

Fat and Bloated is no way to go through life
Google officially announces Chrome OS’s arrival date as this fall, HP purchases Palm and promptly kills off an Ipad like device with Windows as an operating system, and Apple announces that 2 million IPads have sold in 60 days with rumors that the Ipad is killing Netbooks. Fat and Bloated operating systems (regardless of the […]

Best Buy Smarter than the Apple Store
“There is an App for that” – is the mantra nowadays, and I really hoped for one, to solve the major task of telling me where I can buy an iPad. Anywhere, in any physical store along my long drive from San Francisco to Pleasanton. In the real-time, always-on age it should not be a […]
Living In The Clouds – iPad Edition
It has been sometime since I wrote the last post in the Living In The Cloud Series. With iPad in my hand, I thought it is time to revisit this series and talk briefly about how iPad fits in a life on the clouds. When iPad was announced, I wrote a post about how iPad […]

iPad + Wife Bundle – No Kidding
iPad’s are now generally available, so I can’t fathom why people think they can sell it at premium over @ eBay or Craigslist. But there’s one unusal bundle that caught my eyes: iPad 32g 3G+WIFE – $799 (oakland downtown) Date: 2010-05-01, 7:10AM PDT Reply to:

Courier & Foldable Tablets are Neither Innovative Nor “Different”
This is a sad “I’ve told you” moment, as I predicted the death of dual-screen tablets, be it the one by MSI or Microsoft’s Courier, which has just been canceled. Says Frank Shaw, Microsoft’s VP of corporate communications: At any given time, across any of our business groups, there are new ideas being investigated, tested, […]

RoamBI – Beautiful Mobile BI for the iPad
RoamBI for iPhone, which I reviewed last year, has long been the best-looking mobile BI application available in the market. Now the folks at RoamBI have been one of the very first vendors worldwide to come out with an updated application for the iPad, and they provided me with one in order to test their […]

The 10 Best, Must Have iPad Apps for Business
The iPad’s digital coattails are long and there are no shortage of people riding them. The most persistent appear to be rotating around its axis as if trying to acquire a suntan by means of the occasional ray. Their status being elevated by merely being in proximity to one. Is it all hype? Or […]

iPray
As they say a picture is worth a thousand words. Oliver Widder’s Geek And Poke series is one of my favorites… and yes, one cartoon is often worth an entire post… the pic says it all. I just hope we won’t get in trouble.. now that the word “Pad” is on Apple’s ban list … […]

The Cloud through an App Lens
It’s clear that whatever success the iPad has (and I’m on record as saying I think it will be huge), that success is enabled by “the cloud.” There is no future for a device like the iPad were it not for the ability of people to store, access, download and upload to “the cloud.” Furthermore, […]

Why The iPad Is Important
Alright, I’ve read the reviews. I’ve the read Cory’s piece about open-ness and closed platforms (and I agree, open is better). I’ve read from the nit-picking details to the high level geekery, and I’m here to say, the iPad is an important device. Of course, some have already heralded it as the inflection point in […]