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An Acquisition & A Death Signal Ascendancy of Smartphone Over PC

April 13, 2012

by Larry Magid Last Monday, the world learned about two seemingly unrelated events. Facebook purchased Instagram and word got out that Jack Tramiel had died. Tramiel in 1977 introduced the Commodore Pet as one of the first […]

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Apple to Add Multitasking, Ads & Other Features to iPhone

April 8, 2010

(Cupertino, Calif.) Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced that Apple will finally add multitasking to the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. Third party developers will be able to program their apps to run in the background. […]

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Taking the iPhone 3G S out for a spin

June 19, 2009

By Larry Magid I picked up my iPhone 3G S at the Palo Alto store early on launch day, Friday morning, and after several hours of testing, I’m impressed so far.  Not only did I […]

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Pre, iPhone, other smart-phones get cheaper to buy, but not to use

June 13, 2009

There’s great news and not-so-great news when it comes to smart-phones. On June 6, Palm released its $199 Pre — a worthy competitor to Apple’s iPhone. Two days later, Apple announced its faster and better […]

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Apple & Palm heat up smart phone wars

June 10, 2009

The smart phone wars have heated up over the past few days with the release of Palm’s new Pre and Apple’s announcements of a new iPhone, a cheaper price for its existing phone and a […]

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First impressions: Kindle for iPhone

March 5, 2009

Anyone with an iPhone or an iPod Touch can now download the Amazon Kindle for iPhone application and use the device to read electronic books. I tried the application on both an iPhone 3G and […]

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First Google “Android” phone reviewed

October 16, 2008

For the past week I’ve been carrying around the T-Mobile G1 – the first phone to run Google’s Android operating system. While I’m not gaga over Google’s first phone, I am generally pleased about its […]

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