James Kendrick of ZDNet.com posted this very interesting story yesterday:  HP: This TouchPad owner just got very nervous. Thanks. He saw enough promise in the webOS platform–as I did with my purchase of a PalmPre phone.  Then, he discovered yesterday that Jon Rubenstein (head of the webOS unit) had been replaced at HP.  This is [...]

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Barnes & Noble is expected to report a hefty loss tomorrow as it continues to invest in its Nook eBook readers. Click here for an article by Larry Dignan of ZDNet entitled “Will the Nook alter the profit equation?”    The Library’s Nook however is not as popular as our Kindles and iPads and [...]

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Tomorrow is the opening of Apple’s World Wide Developers Conference and there are many predictions being made about what will be unveiled.  Ben Parr of Mashable has eight predictions.  It really is an exciting new world!
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Oh, it’s so hard to keep up!  As you will see in this article from Lauren Indvik of mashable.com, Barnes & Noble has announced a new addition to its Nook line of eReaders that they believe will give Amazon’s Kindle a run for its money.  The Simple Touch Reader has two great new features: a [...]

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Are you thinking about a tablet PC? Not sure what’s out there? Check out this article from Retrevo listing this year’s current and upcoming releases.  I find that my tablet (the iPad) does not substitute for any of my computer equipment; it functions as my eReader, email checker, and social networking device but [...]

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This article from ZDNet by Jason Perlow talks about the impact of the iPhone and Droid phones on RIM (Blackberry) market share.  There’s a good chart listing the change in market share from August 2010 to November 2010 for RIM, Google, Apple, Microsoft, and Palm products.
There are many good phones out there. However, my [...]

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Verizon Mobile Phone Policy Changed
I just saw this article from Jason D. O’Grady of ZDNet on Twitter. The article Your Second Subsidized VZW iPhone Will Probably Be The iPhone 6 tells us that Verizon is “changing its phone upgrade program from 12 months to 20 months.”
So, no matter which phone you have (or want to [...]

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Cable Television Alternatives
Prices go up; wages, not so much. . . Here’s an article from Jason D. O’Grady of ZDNet entitled Three Reasons To Dump Your Cable Provider: Boxee, Roku, Apple TV.   He offers less expensive alternatives to your current cable television cost.  None of these solutions is perfect (yet) but they each bear watching.
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Verizon Announcement on Tuesday re iPhone!
According to a Tweet from the Wall Street Journal, they have confirmed that Verizon will be announcing on Tuesday that the iPhone will be coming to the Verizon network! Here’s a link to the article by Shayndi Raice and Yukari Iwatani Kane! This is exciting news!
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Amazon To Open Android App Store!
According to Adrian Kingsley-Hughes’s ZDNet article, Amazon will open an Android App store and it could be a game changer! The biggest complaints I hear about Droids are about the confusion of apps and uneven quality. Granted, designing apps for so many different pieces of hardware must not [...]

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