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May 21 / 10:41am

The 5 Pillars of FroYo – Android 2.2 Announced

by Christopher Spera
 

The 5 Pillars of FroYo – Android 2.2 Announced

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FroYo – Android never tasted so good!

I’ve been waiting on this announcement for a while. To say I’m drooling over it is an understatement. The Nexus One is a GREAT Smartphone; but right now, with Android 2.1update1, its a bit crippled. The device is slow, processes hang up occasionally and the device appears to freeze; and it could be so much more than it is, with just the right kind of frozen desert… I’m just sayin’.

 

Thankfully, Google IO included a big announcement today.  Google announced the release of Android 2.2, codenamed FroYo.  Google is building FroYo on 5 pillars.  In no particular order, they are:

 

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May 18 / 7:23am

Opinion – How Google can Trump the iPad | Just Another Mobile Monday

by Christopher Spera

Opinion – How Google can Trump the iPad

  googl labs 

Ok… no brainer announcement of the century – Apple has totally captured the digital media market.  The iPhone/iPad/iPod Classic/Touch rule the school when it comes to traveling with your digital goodies. 

With iTunes you can buy, collect, organize, and synchronize

  • Photos
  • Videos
  • Movies
  • TV Shows
  • Music
  • Applications, and
  • eBooks

You can also synchronize your

  • Address Book/Contacts
  • Calendars
  • e-Mail Accounts

You can see the full article at JAMM. 

 

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May 14 / 6:23am

Opinion – Why iPad Competitors will Fail | Just Another Mobile Monday

by Christopher Spera

Opinion – Why iPad Competitors will Fail


Wow.

 

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The Apple iPad

The Apple iPad sure has the entire world interested in what it can do.  I’ve had everyone from managers and directors at the office (including the Chief Medical Information Officer at the hospital where I used to work) ask me what it was, if it was for them, and why they should buy one. Those are hard questions to answer, especially if you don’t know what the person’s intended use for the device is. However, I have had a fair number of those same people indicate that they were going to wait until either a MS/Windows or Android tablet was released and they were going to get it.

Really?

Personally, I think this is a horrible idea.  Here’s why…

 

I had a conversation about this in my neighbor’s back yard yesterday afternoon. The iPad in many ways may be the "magical device" that Steve Jobs is painting it out to be; but there is one (or just a very small handful of) reason(s) why it may have a lock on the tablet market already. The iTunes Eco System.

Check out my article at JAMM and find out more!

 

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Jan 13 / 1:57pm

Pattern emerges for Nexus One 3G problems, points to baseband firmware

by Christopher Spera

In an effort to minimize the apparent scope of the problem faced by at least a sizable plurality of Nexus One customers this week, Google has issued a statement to the press. It essentially acknowledges what we've all seen with our eyes, that users are experiencing widespread 3G connectivity issues, but it offers no information as to what measures are being taken to address those concerns.

"We are aware of the issues that have affected a small number of users, and are working quickly to fix any problems," reads the statement from Google to Betanews this afternoon. "We hope to have more information soon. When we do, we will post it to the user forum."

It looks like my initial suspicions have been confirmed. There is a radio ROM problem with some, not all, of the N1's that Google sold. If this is TRULY the case, a radio ROM upgrade should fix the problem, once the differences between them have been identified and resolved.

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Sep 4 / 9:25am

Live in the Cloud, Die in the Cloud - Gmail outage: MS laughs all the way to the bank

by Christopher Spera

Google's attempt to prove to the world that office apps inexpensively delivered from the cloud beats running PC-based clients got a big setback yesterday, when Gmail suffered a world-wide outage. The big winner: Microsoft, which is laughing all the way to the bank...

via blogs.computerworld.com

I've always said that computing in the cloud is dangerous and that it wasn't ready for prime time. Fellow technology professional, and WUGNET buddy Preston Gralla has an interesting article on this. click the "via" link to see the entire thing.

Bottom line (and I've said this NUMEROUS times) - until The Cloud is available everywhere, until Internet access is ubicquitous, computing in The Cloud, especially the Enterprise is risky.

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