Nov 30, 2011 | Amazon, Android, mail, Outlook, tablet, wireless
While we’re talking about the Kindle Fire, it’s worth noting one strange omission: the Kindle Fire does not have a built-in connection to Exchange mailboxes. The picture on the left shows all the built-in mail connectors: Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, AOL, and “other” (which...
Nov 28, 2011 | Amazon, tablet, wireless
Amazon’s $199 Kindle Fire is a fascinating device! We got ours last week but this isn’t a review – opinions are still forming over here at the global headquarters of Bruceb Consulting. For now I want to point out a single issue: some people are having trouble...
Oct 16, 2011 | Android, Apple, business, computers, laptops, Microsoft, mobile, tablet, Vista, Windows7, WinXP
Apple’s brilliant success since Steve Jobs returned in 1997 has made it the largest company in the world by almost any measure, with a market capitalization that exceeds Microsoft and Intel combined. iPhones define the smartphone market, even if they do not completely...
Sep 29, 2011 | Amazon, Android, Apple, iPad, Microsoft, tablet
Here are representative screen shots of what tablets present and future look like side by side. Apple iPad 2 Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 (standing in for all the Android tablets) Amazon Kindle Fire Microsoft Windows 8 (a preview look at Microsoft’s tablet interface)...
Sep 29, 2011 | Amazon, Android, Apple, hardware, tablet
With its announcement of the Kindle Fire tablet on Wednesday, Amazon did something worthy of Apple: it invented a niche that it is likely to control, not directly competitive with anything currently on the market. You will see endless discussion about how the Kindle...
Jul 24, 2011 | Android, Apple, business, hardware, mobile, tablet
You jangle your keys in your pocket next to your Motorola phone and the screen isn’t scratched. You drop your iPhone and the glass doesn’t break. You jab with an icepick over and over at a Thinkpad X1 laptop and for goodness’ sake, I hope you stop to wonder what in...
