Our digital world ……
“People like what they like. Yeah, that’s something that people (and writers, who don’t count as real people) say, but it also happens to be true. Case in point: the Samsung Galaxy Note 2. Remember all your friends who liked the original Note? Yeah, neither does anybody else.”
“America OnLine has announced that a new partnership with Verizon Wireless will allow them to bring the complete AOL.com portal to Android, Windows, and BlackBerry smart phones and tablets. They say they will be the “exclusive provider of the VZW Home mobile web portal.”
“The iPad mini is quickly becoming a key component of Apple’s product lineup, and according to some sources, might even be the best-selling tablet Apple makes at this point.”
“According to a new report from Japanese newspaper Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun [Google Translation] (via AppleInsider) Sharp, one of Apple’s primary display partners, will begin manufacturing LCD panels for the iPhone 5S beginning in June at its Kameyama Plant No. 1 in Japan.”
“Business and consumer users of iPads and Android tablets already use a variety of tools to edit and share Office files from Dropbox to Quickoffice to tools like SlideShark specifically designed to let you edit PowerPoint slides on mobile devices.”
“SAP, the enterprise software giant, has been beating the cloud drum for years. Last year it put its All-in-One ERP application on Amazon Web Services. Five months later it did the same with HANA, its speedy in-memory database.”
“Building out the infrastructure for Snapchat was an act of faith, according to co-founder and CTO Bobby Murphy. The company, which apparently was so easy to build that a Facebook engineer took two weeks to mock up a similar service, operates on Google’s Compute Engine.”
“These days, with money so tight my trip planning process always starts with a hunt for a deal. I’ll bet you have your favorite websites to check first for flight specials. George Hobica hopes one of them is AirfareWatchdog.com.”
“Samsung’s ‘S Voice’ assistant app has improved considerably on the Galaxy S4. In fact, it’s worth revisiting if you dismissed it on earlier devices due to slow performance or hit-and-miss speech recognition.”
“Owners of the Verizon variant of the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 tablet will no longer feel left out, thanks to the unlock package that XDA Elite Recognized Developer AdamOutler posted late Friday night.”
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