Wednesday - March 28, 2012.
by Georges van Hoegaerden
AT&T lit the mobile internet on fire when it enabled 4G LTE in one of its test markets in Chapel Hill recently. Speed tests of 16.34 Mbps download and 5.40 Mbps upload through my shiny new iPad blew my home-office landline internet connection away, which makes one think about the strategic consequences of landline internet and the many devices built for it.
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Tags: AT&T, T-Mobile, Cingular, LTE, 4G, Apple, Tim Cook, Steve Jobs, UNESCO, Cloud computing, iPad
Thursday - March 08, 2012.
by Georges van Hoegaerden
I wrote a pretty damning blurb on the last public version of iChat, stating it had no credentials to live up to the capabilities of freeware Adium. With the beta version of iMessage that tide has now turned.
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Tags: Adium, Apple, iMessage, Steve Jobs, Microsoft, Instant Messaging, Skype, GSM, SMS, FaceBook, Google, AOL, OS X, iOS, Twitter
Monday - January 09, 2012.
by Georges van Hoegaerden
When you think something as mainstream as pants have been around for hundreds of years and its innovation has come to a halt, you need to check out relative newcomer Kühl. An american company “born in the mountains” puts a new spin on a product we wear everyday, with an innovative philosophy.
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Tags: Kühl
Wednesday - November 23, 2011.
by Georges van Hoegaerden
If you are tempted to eat too much during the holiday season, check out the Withings digital scale that sends your measurements including those of 7 other family members to the cloud where you can keep track of weight, lean mass, body fat and BMI on a constant basis.
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Tuesday - August 23, 2011.
by Georges van Hoegaerden
- Apple's iChat does not quite quack like the Adium duck just yet. Expanded with Yahoo! chat in the recent Lion release, iChat has difficulty reconnecting with many of its chat services (AOL, Yahoo!, Google and Facebook through Jabber) and fails to reconnect to Facebook's chat. Adium, with its open source code also offers connectivity to Skype's chat capability through a free extension. [Links: Adium
]
Tags: Apple, iChat
Monday - August 15, 2011.
by Georges van Hoegaerden
The Bose VideoWave system incorporates some impressive audio engineering that lacks the proper positioning to meet the needs of modern and informed home theater users, or for that matter my daughters bedroom.
The Bose VideoWave is therefor in our opinion a strategic misfit, dragging some impressive engineering with it into its demise.
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Tags: Bose, Pioneer, Apple
Wednesday - February 09, 2011.
by Georges van Hoegaerden
You know you have succeeded in reaching social economic acceptance when less than one year after the introduction a whole commercial website is dedicated to selling used versions of your product (the iPad) in addition to many vying for new ones. Just kidding. I passed mine on to my very happy daughter.
I am just “proud” that I was able to beat
Walt Mossberg
somewhere on the planet (Malaysia?) with
my last summer’s first 48 hour review of the iPad.
Tags: iPad, Apple, Walt Mossberg
Thursday - February 03, 2011.
by Georges van Hoegaerden
- Verizon beats AT&T in voice calls for iPhones, according to Walt Mossberg at All Things Digital, unless you travel to many other countries frequently (except for China) where Verizon phones are rendered useless. AT&T’s network averaged 46% faster at download speeds and 24% faster at upload speeds he concludes.
Tags: Walt Mossberg, All Things Digital, AT&T, Verizon, iPhone, Visas, Venture Capital, Unemployment, Netherlands, Economy
Monday - May 03, 2010.
by Georges van Hoegaerden
Apple has singlehandedly changed the computing agenda from business to lifestyle, and managed to serve its fast growing customer base with an experience that truly meets their every day needs...
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Tags: iPad, Apple, IPhone, ITunes, OS X
Monday - February 23, 2009.
by Georges van Hoegaerden
Fotonauts is an improvement in terms of its ability to create an instant and good looking web site with some powerful social media capabilities that promise to increase traffic to your photographs. It blends offline and online capabilities...
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Tags: LightZone, Aperture, Lightroom, Adobe, Apple, Rapidweaver, JetPhoto, Photography, Flickr, Picasa, FaceBook
Monday - December 01, 2008.
by Georges van Hoegaerden
Cooliris is cool new navigational technology from browsing media. And until we have more advanced browsers can be a valuable add-on for now.
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Tags: FaceBook, Firefox, Browser, EBay, AT&T, Google
Sunday - December 30, 2007.
by Georges van Hoegaerden
Bose, still private company to balance earnings with a sincere interest in keeping its customers happy is admirable. More fundamentally, successful companies understand that building a lasting brand means they pay attention to customer retention...
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Tags: Bose, Experience, Apple
