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One of the great disappointments for me in last week’s launch of the iPhone 5 is that it doesn’t come with near field communications (NFC) capabilities. This was explained in an interview with Senior VP Phil Schiller: It’s not clear that NFC is the solution to any current problem, Schiller said. “Passbook does the kinds of […]
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Tags: apple, authentication, NFC, payments, terminal, token
Tablets go multi user (at last)
Almost a year and a half ago I wrote that tablets should support multiple user profiles: Multitasking —> multiuser? As more tablets and similar devices start to appear in the household I’m increasingly convinced that they should have multi user capabilities. A smartphone may be a personal device, but a tablet is a more social, shareable […]
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Tags: 7", 8.9", amazon, family, Fire, HD, kindle, LTE, multi, multi-user, user
I’ve had my original Samsung Galaxy Tab for over a year now, and it’s a great device. I particularly like that it has 3G (and that it came with a SIM that I can use relatively inexpensively in the US[1]). It shipped with Android 2.2 (Froyo), and after rooting and restocking I’ve pretty much left […]
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Tags: 4.0, android, boot, bricked, CM9, CyanogenMod, Galaxy, Ice Cream Sandwich, ICS, Overcome, recovery, Samsung, tab, unbootable, upgrade
Drones
Barely a week goes by these days without me seeing something about a cool home built drone project on sites like Hack a Day, and a couple of weeks ago the Open Source Hardware Users Group (OSHUG) had a meeting dedicated to drones. I really liked the idea of using Kinect as a controller for […]
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Tags: ARDrone, drone, drones, kinect, OpenRelief, OSHUG, quadcopter
KVM mort
This isn’t a post about the KVM Hypervisor, which I believe is alive, well and rather good. This is a post about keyboard, video and mouse switches. At both home and work I have multiple machines, and monitors with multiple inputs, so all I need is a KM switch to share my keyboard and mouse […]
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Tags: digital, displayport, DVI, HDMI, keyboard, KVM, monitor, mouse, switch, USB, VGA, video
An enterprise Ultrabook
I’ve recently had a couple of laptops on loan that have got me thinking about what the perfect enterprise laptop might feature. Business – Lenovo X220 I was loaned this to try out a super secret new security product. Regular readers here will know that I have a fondness for Lenovo laptops, and this is […]
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Tags: business, consumer, corporate, displayport, docking, dual screen, enterprise, laptop, network, smartcard, Thunderbolt, ultrabook, Wide Eye, WiDi
Three screens
I’ve had a run of bad luck with screens recently.. Laptop The first casualty was my son’s X121e. He brought it home from school one evening saying ‘the screen on my laptop is broken … I didn’t drop it’. My response was of course ‘why are you telling me you didn’t drop it’, and ‘what […]
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Tags: Blade, fixing, iPad, IPad 2, laptop, LCD, lenovo, Orange San Francisco, phone, repair, screen, smartphone, Touch, X121, x121e, ZTE
Big Data – a little analysis
This post was inspired by a conversation I had with a VC friend a few weeks back, just as he was about to head out to the Structure conference that would be covering this topic. Big Data seems to be one of the huge industry buzz phrases at the moment. From the marketing it would […]
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Tags: algorithm, analytics, big data, complexity, quant
The suckage of hotel Internet
I’ve been on the road now for a week and a half, which has brought me into contact with some of the slowest, most expensive Internet access I’ve suffered in some time. I’m used to mobile Internet being expensive and slow, but this has been even worse. My problems started in an airport lounge in […]
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Tags: download, hotel, Internet, lounge, mobile, speed, travel
In my previous post about Raspberry Pi I noted that it will probably wipe out the existing market for thin client devices. It won’t stop there though. Next up – media players… Hardware wise the Raspi is very close to existing media players like Apple TV (2nd gen) or something like a WD TV Live – […]
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Tags: AirPlay, HDMI, media, player, Raspberry Pi, Raspi, remote, streaming, XBMC
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