Monthly Archives: June 2011

Nokia N9 UX [?Swipe?] on MeeGo 1.2 Harmattan

Posted on June 24, 2011 by

Update as of August 10, 2012: After acquiring the Qt commercial licensing business in March 2011 from Nokia, the Helsinki based, ~1000 people strong Digia, with 2011 sales of 121.9 million Euro,yesterday acquired all the rest of the Qt business from Nokia. More details … Continue reading →

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A too early assesment of the emerging ‘Windows 8’ dev & UX functionality

Posted on June 24, 2011 by

Update on the recent craze in mass media to call the new era “post-PC” by Frank X. Shaw Microsoft Corporation [19 Aug 2011 3:37 PM]: Where the PC is headed: Plus is the New “Post” In the past year, and … Continue reading →

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First-ever Israeli National Pavilion Set up at 2011 Computex Taipei

Posted on June 20, 2011 by

First-ever Israeli National Pavilion Set up at 2011 Computex Taipei [June 20] 12 Israeli companies jointly showcased their latest technologies, products in the first-ever “Israeli Pavilion” at the 2011 Taipei International Information Technology Show (Computex Taipei) held May 31-June 4 … Continue reading →

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SOEs and state coexistence in China

Posted on June 19, 2011 by

- History (pre 2008) – Recent information from the government (2007-2011) – Current situation: mostly related to the China Mobile Major update: ‘Princelings’ take up key posts in China’s telcos [Feb 24, 2012] Sons of PM Wen and party propaganda chief … Continue reading →

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China Mobile repositioning for TD-LTE with full content and application aggregation services, 3G [HSPA level] is to create momentum for that

Posted on June 18, 2011 by

Follow-up: – Good TD-LTE potential for target commercialisation by China Mobile in 2012 [July 13, 2011] See also: Mobile Internet (Aug’11) which is a total update on Aug 26, 2011 with a lot of additions to the original July 19, 2010 … Continue reading →

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Acer repositioning for the post Wintel era starting with AMD Fusion APUs

Posted on June 17, 2011 by

Follow-Up (Aug 2, 2011): – Acer & Asus: Compensating lower PC sales by tablet PC push [March 29, 2011 with comprehensive update on Aug 2, 2011] which is showing serious technical and market problems with the original version of Honeycomb (particularly … Continue reading →

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Metro styled new entertainment experience on Xbox 360

Posted on June 6, 2011 by

Although not mentioned in any of the press materials (see the excerpts below) Microsoft has shown a brand new Xbox 360 UX interface in its E3 keynote today. It is based on the same Metro design language as Windows Phone … Continue reading →

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Apple to go to an Intel foundry?

Apple chip roadmap hints A5 iPhone 5, A6 iPad 3 [June 3, 2011]: Gwennap anticipates Apple may have to think different in future. That’s because Apple should match industry trends in order to create a quad-core A6 processor next year. … Continue reading →

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ICT Top-100 in Mainland China and the #1 Huawei

Posted on June 4, 2011 by

China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology on June 2 issued a top-100 list of Chinese electronics and information technology companies for the year 2010, with Huawei, a telecom solutions provider, continuing to stay in first place. Huawei was followed … Continue reading →

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Google as an evil enterprise: the perception changes as vital APIs are shut down

Posted on June 1, 2011 by

Suggested reading: If Microsoft Can’t Compete With Google, Who Can? [Aug 2, 2011] Google is an advertising company and evidence of its ability to extract a monopoly price premium from advertisers is a key siren call to investigators to see … Continue reading →

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