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Is Apple Too Sexy for MWC?
In deciding not to exhibit at the Macworld events, CES and MWC, Apple has shown the world that it doesn’t need others to be successful. It can control the conversation far better when it holds its own press conferences...
Divoom Bluetune Solo Speaker Review
At CES 2013 I had a chance to check out the Divoom Bluetune Solo speaker, a pint-sized gadget which packs a powerful punch of bass for its size. The speaker is round and fits in a coffee cup taking...
Xirrus XR-520 AP For Smaller Areas
Xirrus is known for large-scale WiFi systems and conferences and stadiums are a typical area where you will see the company’s products. It seems however there are times when Xirrus customers want to WiFi enable smaller areas. For this reason...
Ferrari By Logic3 Impresses With High-End Audio at CES
At CES 2013 one of the more exciting booths was Ferrari By Logic3 where the company showed off an all-in-one docking system with 350W of audio power. It looks gorgeous and sounds amazing. Yes, it will give Bose a run...
Tehrani's Best of CES 2013
There was so much to see at CES – here are some of my favorites. Qi wireless charging, impossibly thin televisions and the smallest electric vehicles on the market are some of my top picks. I hope you like the...
Best Buy Tablet Doomed?
The common sense analysis of Best Buy’s new Android-based tablet is it is doomed because if only Amazon is able to pull a tablet off by breaking even or even potentially losing money and even Samsung isn’t making a dent...
Microsoft, SNL, Sprint and Softbank News for Monday October 15, 2012
Microsoft is jumping into the music business and this is perhaps the biggest news of the day and possibly the week. Redmond is now offering ad supported music streaming and going up against Sirius XM, Pandora and Apple’s iTunes all...
With Fabulous Gorilla Glass, Why Does Corning Stock Lose Value?
Corning is a fascinating company and recently the news about how they collaborated with Steve Jobs to build the glass for the first iPhone became public, making them that much more interesting. Believe it or not but the ancestor of the now...
iPhone 5 Screen Not Wider, Brighter Instead
I may be the most vociferous person out there saying the iPhone 5 should be wider than it is but just because Apple decided to "Think Different" it doesn't mean the screen on its new flagship phone isn't much better than its replacement.According to...
Amazon Rockets Upmarket with Kindle Fire HD Devices
Amazon has shown the world it is possible to compete against the iPad if you offer a smaller device and charge a lot less for it. When the Kindle Fire was released it cost $199 while the equivalent WiFi-only iPad...
Top Spiderman Gadgets and Games
Check out TMC's take on the latest Spiderman games and tech. Talk about cloud computing . Watch this very cool video from Rich Steeves here at TMC which will bring you to speed on augmented reality applications and more. ...
Songza is a Solid Music Streaming Service
I've been testing Songza's music streaming service for a few weeks now and it seems to be the best place to listen to real hits all the time. It competes with Slacker, Pandora, Sirius XM and Spotify and lately I...
What the Auto Market can Teach us about Mobile
Have you ever heard from someone that they don’t like Starbucks coffee but they like the experience at the store so they go in, sit down and buy the coffee? It is quite a testament to the world’s largest coffee...
Best Buy's Best Choice is to Evolve
This guest blog post is from TMC Senior Editor, Peter Bernstein, a respected analyst covering technology and communications for a number of years. Peter’s post addresses my recent comments about what Best Buy can do to make it in the...
Did Sonos Just Obsolete Their Remote?
Sonos users rejoice - you can now control the volume level of yourmusic with the volume buttons on your iOS device. Prior to this software upgrade you had to use the slider switch on your Apple device. Now Sonos sells...
Beyond Amazon Price Match - What Best Buy Must Do
Recently I was in a Best Buy store while traveling because I needed three items which retailed each for $99. I needed one right away but the other two could have waited. So while in the store I decided to...
One Nanometer Per Bit Storage in our Lifetime?
Researchers at the The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have embedded an iron atom into a nanometer-sized molecule consisting of 51 atoms to enable it to function as an on-off binary switch. The molecule acts as protection for the charge...
Can Discounted Hardware Compete with Apple?
Microsoft Store in Danbury, CTGlobal Apple stores are brimming with traffic with municipalities tripping over each other to get Apple to open stores in their areas. At the same time, the Microsoft Store in the Danbury Fair Mall in Connecticut...
Should RIM Be Judged on its Hires or Fires?
No company wants Apple as a competitor as the company has more momentum than the euro crisis. But that is the challenge companies like Nokia and RIM face on a daily basis. Yesterday I delved into the problems RIM faced...
E-mail Focus Built and Hurt RIM
Compaq’s iPaq ( pictured), brought to market early last decade was a blockbuster device from the standpoint of its aesthetics. It had a bright color screen, had great audio at the time and felt good in the hand. Competing the...
Turns out Cisco Cius Can't Compete With the iPad Either
Company after company is learning what most of instinctively know already – competing with Apple head-on is like trying to tackle a freight train with your bare hands as it is barreling down the tracks in your direction. Amazon...
Disruption Targets Currency Exchange Kiosks
Technology has resulted in massive margin compression among industry after industry. Retailers have to struggle to make money to pay their brick and mortar overhead while consumers routinely see and touch the merchandise in their store while buying it online...
Kickstarter, A Solution for the Patient
If you want to be involved - intimately involved with the manufacturing process behind a product you purchase then I suggest you immediately jump onto Kickstarter and start backing projects. The high-flying site has made lots of news in a...
Sonos SUB Expensive but Convenient
Sonos makes a great WiFi-based sound system allowing wire-free sound in any room in your home. The only problem with this strategy is that Apple and its AirPlay wireless streaming system is a peripheral competitor and when you go up...
Goodbye Android, we hardly Knew You
New research is showing that Android has some real problems. Obviously Google knows this and it’s part of the reason they purchased Motorola and as Henry Blodget points out are opening an online tablet store. David Beckemeyer too weighs in...
