Success is a personal measure. If a person defines their success from a business perspective, two things. The first is few people get rich working for someone else and the second is the fastest way up the ladder is to move from one job to another. Stay long enough to make an impact, network and keep the resume looking…

Android running on a tablet is barely one year old. People expecting it to compete with the iPad out of the box had really unrealistic expectations. Even so the first Android tablets were a great start and covered most of the bases. Counting the Kindle line the Android tablet market had a good first year... just not…

MS making its own hardware would be a massive mistake. They would alienate their biggest supporters and those companies bring in the real revenue (Dell, HP, etc) to MS. They may dabble in hardware but it is a tremendous uphill battle for them to build their devices inhouse.

Displacement hulls have a wall on power to performance. I would imagine that they are already up against that wall so the airplane would do little if nothing at all to speed the ship up.

This is what happens when board of directors inter-breed with other companies. One CEO will be on the board voting in his buddies in several other companies and vice-versa. Ultimately the system needs to self correct this trend hopefully before the government passes a useless bill.

I converted to one shirt style, one shorts style and one pants style in multiple colors years ago. My wife calls it my uniform and most of it is Columbia Sports. I then keep one suit around for the usual formal events. Works great but I am in a warm environment so winter/fall wear isn't necessary.

It may be the most important update since the iPad but that is more telling about what Apple hasn't done lately than what they have. I know they cannot produce a game changer every couple years, but until then they will be in "the great ones" shadow regardless of the quality of product refinements they push out.

Why does Verizon care about what device accesses their network if it is shared? I can see charging a flat rate for the unlimited minutes/messaging/data and then a per device fee but it really should be flat. Lets say $70 for the 1 GB and then $20 for each device. Simple, easy to understand and won't have people…

Wonder why Apple didn't shake a few coins out of their pocket and buy them? Then they would own it rather than rent it.

Sometimes processing sequentially is much faster than asynchronously. People think more cores more processing, but it is not nearly that easy. Multi-threaded coding is very difficult in comparison and many programmers are not good enough to code multithreaded systems well.

Android was moving fast and furious in the early days and these charts show exactly that. Over the next several months those older Android phones will be cycled and the Android breakdown will begin to look a lot more like the iOS chart. Especially since Android has matured and there are going to be fewer differences…

It is rarely about the inability to learn a new language but rather about leaving behind what a programmer is very good and fast at. It is hard to see the logic in picking up something that in many cases cannot do the job any better than what someone is leaving behind and then suffer through learning all the…

The answers are ridiculously easy. The big one is that few serious companies can hire decent talent in a fringe language. Managers want to be able to hire talent, programmers want their resume to appeal to the broadest base and businesses want something that can pass a due diligence if they are sold/bought out.

The app specific and file system approaches are both limited. A better system is an interface/object based model inside the OS where an object encapsulates the data and interfaces define how it can be referenced. Views inside apps would determine how the data is presented making the file structure it is stored in…

They are both very nice OSes and far more aligns than separates them. However why should a user risk bricking or voiding the warranty to customize a theme or change the default mail client? Seems like this is something that should be included without having to root as it is in Android. There is so much a person can do…

WDTV has been in this space for quite a while, has a nice community, inexpensive, the boxes link to media servers easily and they sell a separate media server to use as a hub.

Tablets (both Android and iOS) are a pain to support for many organizations. Neither has a lot of business IT control built in and iOS can be a real pain to deploy software updates for internal products. They are also in most cases a shiny toy, one more "thing" to manage and often significant security risk. Great for…

If a person is going to do something like this, lets hope they leave a trail like this.

People are getting WAY too sensitive when a company mentions a nice butt (man or woman) and people drop the discrimination bomb. Relax, don't do it when you want to... gripe about a comment referencing a nice rear. It might not be eloquent writing but hardly worthy of an article.

China went from copying poorly, to building poorly, to building everything and have recently progressed to copying very well. It won't be long before they copy, improve and build significantly better than we can. China and Germany... go figure.