I keep hearing about how everyone is watching video on their smart phones. Then I try to do it and the experience is, well, awful most of the time. Particularly lately.
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Dodge Retort: Windows checking for a solution…oh, really?!
Two blue screens of death (BSOD) in as many weeks: Yikes, is it my under a year old HP Desktop? Windows 7? Some of my apps?
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Dodge Retort: Steve Jobs, a few encounters of my own
Jobs was brilliant, tyrannical, funny, driven and many other things that typify game-changers. He will be endlessly eulogized over coming days and weeks and written about for years and decades. What I can uniquely offer are a few encounters I had with Jobs and the perspective of someone who has covered computers and IT since January, 1980.
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Enterprise CIO Forum: What do fake names on the Internet mean to you?
Are clever pseudonyms and fake names on the Internet about to become a thing of the past?
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Dodge Retort: Win7 PC Junk Collection
Ever wonder how much junk a Windows 7 PC picks up in a couple of days?
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Dodge Retort: Every 10 tablets sold zap 5 net/notebook sales
A CIO friend told me yesterday that his company is considering ditching notebooks and equipping its sales force with iPads. And I have yet to hear from a CIO or IT exec who thinks tablets don’t have a key role to play in the corporate America (my day job is community manager at IDG’sEnterprise CIO Forum).
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Dodge Retort: Verizon’s first 4G smart phone underwhelms
I was worried when I upped for a Verizon Wireless iPhone when it came out in early February.
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Dodge Retort: Cable clutter reflects a tethered world
In this `not as wireless a world as we like to think,’ I am being strangled by cables. I trip over ones around my desk and just organized a tangle of more than 200-250 cables that have accumulated over the years.
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Dodge Retort: Mobile technology not on par with desktop
I have been on the road a couple of times this year and for all the talk of the mobile technology wonderment, it’s still considerably harder to get work done than at your desk.
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Dodge Retort: The iTunes Hairball
Among Sun Microsystems (now Oracle something or other) founder Scott NcNealy’s favorite potshots at Microsoft was calling Windows a “hairball.” Know what? iTunes is a bigger hairball.
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Dodge Retort: Jeopardy, Watson go home
Over the past three nights, I have watched Watson, the IBM supercomputer, make mince meat of the two most formidable Jeopardy players ever. The inherently unfair contest gave me the creeps and was little more than an ad for IBM.
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Dodge Retort: Verizon iPhone Neurosis
By John Dodge
My Verizon Wireless iPhone arrived via Fedex today and for hours, I’ve been hesitating to peel off the shrink wrap and take it out of the box.
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Dodge Retort: Is Windows 7 more reliable than its predecessors?
By John Dodge
Is Windows 7 really that much better from previous versions…or that much more reliable?
I am beginning to think not all that much given huge expectations for Win7. After using it for 18 months, my question is a fair one. Microsoft can probably show myriad stats to prove that it is, but there’s no substitute for personal experience over the long term.
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Dodge Retort: Verizon iPhone Arrives
By John Dodge
Why does this feel so anti-climactic…and grossly overdue?
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Dodge Retort: Whatever happened to Netbooks?
By John Dodge
Netbooks were all the rage in 2009 and a dog in 2010.
The bloom came off the netbook rose early last year, possibly in anticipation of the iPad and then directly from the wildly popular tablet.
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Dodge Retort: To 4G or not to 4G
By John Dodge
For now, my 4G decision is easy because Verizon has already made it for me.
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Dodge Retort: Buying a Long Overdue Desktop
By John Dodge
It’s been almost eight years since I acquired my last desktop computer. It’s time to go shopping for a new one and wade through dozens of models with long unmemorable names and figure out a configuration amid infinite variations.
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Dodge Retort: One of Best Android Smart Phones Yet
By John Dodge
The Samsung Fascinate is the fifth Android smart phone I’ve reviewed in the past year and it reflects the evolution of Android devices. It may be my favorite one yet.
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