Google Voice launches its very own phone booth

Remember how every new medium needs to refer to an old medium before people finally understand its value? People finally understood the value of TV when they were showed a classic play on a tv screen. The first thing on the radio was people reading books out loud. And to get people used to making free phone calls (like we all did when we were young and helpless in the pre-mobile era) Google...

Guru Gear helps you to find the good stuff

So today, just one day before my holiday, I was looking for all the right books to read. It was quite a hard job to pick the right ones. There’s so many titles that people I work with have been telling me about and there’s so many great books I read about on blogs and websites about the digital industry. It wasn’t easy to pick the right ones, but I managed to make a good...

Amazon starts selling apps…or ‘active content titles’

Yesterday I got an e-mail from Amazon, telling me they released the first two Kindle active content titles. So Amazon has officially kicked off their app store now. Although they prefer to call them “active content titles” instead of apps. When I wrote about Amazon’s announcement of the Kindle App Store earlier this year, I did mention that “..the e-ink technology is an...

iPhone users are very, very loyal

Since the second quarter of 2010 Android is the leading smartphone operating system in the US. With 32% of US based phones running on Google’s OS, it seems that the big volumes of Android phones that are flooding the US market have finally resulted in the biggest piece of the pie. Apple comes in third with 22% of the market, after Blackberry, having 32% of the market. And as with many...

There’s something in between e-ink and LCD, it’s called IMOD

In my last post about how the Kindle and iPad are companions instead of competitors, Ernst-Jan Pfauth asked an interesting question in the comment section. He asked if there’s a device on its way that merges the iPad’s color screen and video capability and the Kindle’s e-paper technology. The answer is yes. This autumn not-so-fancy tech company Qualcomm releases it’s...