How the Mobile Platforms Stack Up

I thought I’d take a moment to rank the major mobile platforms in terms of a few specific criteria. Because I know next to nothing about Blackberry, and because I can’t forgive RIM for so blatantly ripping...

Apps Still Unavailable on webOS

webOS doesn’t need any salt rubbed in any wounds, really, but I was going over the archives of this site and ran across a post I’d made about some apps that folks were looking for and that aren’t yet...

The State of webOS (For Me) at the E...

Here we are at the end of 2010, almost a full two years from when webOS and the Palm Pre were first announced at CES 2009. A great deal has happened since then—the Pre was launched to a lukewarm reception in...

Rahul Sood Joins Microsoft

Well, we’ve just found out where HP’s former guru of gaming is ending up. He’ll be at Microsoft, doing cool stuff with interactive entertainment. In his own words: Well, it’s probably time I let...

A Windows Phone 7 Postmortem

For a variety of reasons (such as those I already briefly mentioned), I’m no longer spending time trying out and writing about Windows Phone 7. It’s possible that I could return to it should I have the...

HP Trademarks Myte, Veer, and Gyst, ...

News is making the rounds this morning about some new trademark applications that HP recently submitted to the USPTO. They go something like this. Myte IC 009. US 021 023 026 036 038. G & S: Computers;...