Monday, October 25, 2010

So, what's so great about the Nook?

Well, in the tiny little island called Jaytv land, the functionality of a product must follow closely just behind It's form...unless it is an #Apple product, and then all bets are off...

The Nook at first seemed to be such a strange device...then I spoke with my lone adopter...as I will call my #decider/influencer mentioned below.

She mentioned the Nook's true strength, right out of the box...the completeness of Its back catalog of both authors' earlier works, and complete sets of all technical manuals in any given series.

BIG Deal, I was thinking...more tomorrow on how wrong I was...

Saturday, October 23, 2010

However, all is not right in the #e-publishing and #Kindle paradise.



That, my friends, is the Kindle. An item so good at what it does, it is well on the way to being the generic name of the activity it facilitates, namely reading books that you do not physically own. What do I mean? The Kindle allows you to buy books digitally, not by some physical medium as primitive as say, oh, paper? It does this nearly seamlessly.

However, all is not right in the #e-publishing and #Kindle paradise.

Are you ready for this? The Nook, from Barnes and Noble, has some significant advantages, some I don't think Mr. Bezos or his team care about or are not possibly aware of. Yep, I said it, in some ways, the #Nook is a more #fully-realized product.

I spent part of a sunny So. California afternoon recently in the waiting room of my local Mazda dealer. I met a extremely passionate devotee of the Nook, who just happens to be a major influencer/decider (code for VIP) at the top aircraft fastener company in the world. I promised her the same anonymity as myself in writing about her take on e-books and e-publishing in general, and specifically, why she proudly bought a Nook and defends it to all who ask why.

what a fascinating conversation! Tune in later for the reasons I believe the Nook has a niche following that could grow significantly over the near-term.

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

So, here comes HP roaring back to the Party...4G but only 2G Pre, oh wait, never mind...

Ok folks, this is Big, as in the largest technology company #in_the_world big.  HP is launching it's first foray back into a market it once created, and failed to dominate, even though it was the first coming, the #iPaq. Sound familiar?  HP tried to make a phone out of the iPaq, and met with yawns from the marketplace.

Yep, the thunder rolls and the lightning strikes where I sit blogging away here in So Cal, but this is a smirk-inducing piece of news, as Engadget put it so eloquently;

  http://www.engadget.com/palm_2_coming_to_france

France?!?  Really?  Ok, well this part makes sense.  I'll explain why later...what do you think folks?  The comment sections, as always, are open...

Sunday, October 17, 2010

Why Email #Blogging is The Greatest thing since text blogging.

Is it?  This is a test, this is only a test...we will be back to your regularly scheduled programs forthwith...

Thursday, October 14, 2010

What everybody knows, but doesn't...

4G coming but only MiFi Verizon for the "revolutionary" iPad? Hmmm. Sounds fishy to me...methinks there is another plan to bring a certain #iphone or #MSiSMD in candy CDMA flavor to Big Red...whadda ya think folks?

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Procrastination

Did you know that your Inbox can reflect your state of mind? I do...that's why the Samsung review is so late...have so much to say but so many messages...

Sunday, October 10, 2010

What is 4g? What the heck it LTE? Why oh why should I care?

Okay, quick little primer on the whole 4G vs. LTE vs. common sense.

Does anyone out there remember a little green and black screen and any geek/nerd around you talking about the mobile internet? That was likely a ridiculous, almost 'proof of concept' version of the internet in a phone. That was 1G, or the first generation, and remember folks, geeks don't generally reproduce, so...

The next attempt was in color! Woo hoo! Now we were getting somewhere! You could actually pull up a movie time! This was proudly thought of as 2G or second generation, and the established geeks like to improve the breed without any regard to opportunity or regard to the needs of others...so...

Now it got interesting...3G was here and the mobile internet exploded into the mass media, and the world ate it up. It is now the fastest adopted consumer item, the cellular phone, in the history of history. Yes, his-story, as mostly male geeks are still impressed with this idea...okay, now I am tired so, 3G=high bandwidth, or the ability to display content like cranky old analysts random wisdo# or what we call wisdom, much more quickly...this actually became useful to the majority of laptop and mobile users.

Now 4G is here, and the battle royal is raging in the geeks, the jocks and the business warriors minds...what will get the email and attachments faster and more securely so I can go home and see my kids that the Geeks and Freaks who thought 2G was pretty cool, now do not have. And there are a few converted Geeks in the group as well. This 4G switch is the end of the mobile access to the internet being anything less than universal among new phone and data users. What is next? Keep reading.

Samsung review tomorrow or Tuesday. Will be meditative and authoritative reading.

Thursday, October 07, 2010

Green Poison?!? Really?

Folks, if there is anything you take away from this modest little endeavor of mine, is that great products are rewarded...poor products should scatter until they are fixed or ignored by the people that produce them until they slide into digital irrelevance.

FiOS by Verizon is just one example. The new jailbreak announced for the iPhone today is another. Greenp0ison?!? Really? So now, if you hate your iPhone enough, you can give Steve and Apple the metaphorical finger as they ever so gingerly "#jumptheshark" (look to the left for definitions on the buzzwords) in matching black turtlenecks over the Millions-Selling iPhone 4 Slow-Motion Disaster, or MSI4SMD, as we call it here, but certainly not around the billionaire dude ranch that is Apple. This is analogous to taking poison and hoping the other billionaire dies. What has Apple done to this hacker lately?

Now take your mind back with me one day to my promise to talk about the "crystalline entity" that is FiOS. Let's just say that whomever committed to bring fiber right into a house or apartment (like your humble correspondent's) needs to have their own scene (sic) in the new movie "The Social Network" because this person or persons have brought unalloyed joy to thousands, if not tens of thousands. FiOS, quite simply, in the best terms, with the easiest definitions, rocks the house. Yes, it is that good. I have had it for years now, and it has never let my snark go unreported in the netherworld of Wireless Forums.

Crystalline doesn't even begin to describe the picture or the service. If you live in a FiOS service area, you must try the un-recompressed HD Video service alone, if not the 20/5 (yes 20 Mega Bits down and 5 up) nearly perfect uptime standard internet services.

Whomever made those decisions to put $3000 in an ONT (Optical Network terminal) and Router in every house that wants to feel the future in their home today, shine on you crazy diamond! Thank you from the bottom of my black and white heart, dude!