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Follow up: iPhone NOT a Threat to RIM

Posted on March 17, 2008 by Michael Koby

Earlier today I posted an article that talked about why the iPhone, with its new enterprise features and development kit, was not a threat to Research In Motion and their BlackBerry devices.  You can read the article entitled, iPhone NOT … Continue reading →

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iPhone is NOT a Threat to RIM

Posted on March 16, 2008 by Michael Koby

In the past week, I have read several articles that have said pretty much the same thing. That “thing” is that the iPhone is going to be a serious threat to RIM in terms of market share now that the iPhone has Exchange functionality and and development kit that will give it third party application support. Let me make this plain and simple the iPhone will NOT be a serious threat to RIM and I will explain why. Continue reading →

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Firefox 3 Beta 4 Improves Memory Usage

Posted on March 12, 2008 by Michael Koby

Yesterday Mozilla released the latest Firefox 3 beta (Beta 4) and with that release we see improvements in the memory usage of Firefox.  Firefox 2.0 has been the center of memory scrutiny pretty much since its release but that starts … Continue reading →

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Third Party Desktop Applications in a Web 2.0 World

Posted on March 12, 2008 by Michael Koby

Why build desktop applications when web applications are getting more complex and essentially becoming full-featured applications in their own right? Are desktop applications important in a Web 2.0, software as a service world? I want to look at that a little bit today. Continue reading →

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Down on Apple?

Posted on March 10, 2008 by Michael Koby

Last week, Engadget had post about a possible second generation iPhone leak (New iPhone Design Leaked on iTunes? Highly Unlikely). In the comments of this post you’ll find a couple of people really dissing Apple in an extremely horrendous way. This is something that seems to have become sort of sport on the internet lately. How bad can you insult Apple. It is basically nothing but trolling, and normally one should not feed the trolls but I just had to post something because lately this kind of thing has really gotten to me. Continue reading →

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Nine Inch Nails Gets it Right

Posted on March 5, 2008 by Michael Koby

There are many arguments on how to release an album on the internet. Radiohead’s In Rainbows album was a success if you ask them but they have not come forward with the numbers yet. Trent Reznor’s NiggyTardust experiment was a moderate success. The album wasn’t flying off the digital shelves but it did sell an impressive number even when a free download was available. You will find debates everywhere from Digg to Slashdot to NIN.com on the proper way to release an album digitally, over the internet, and directly from the artist. Continue reading →

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