By making fun of other smart phones of course. The Samsung Galaxy 3 is out and about now and well they aren’t holding back on promoting this product. Over the weekend there have been some commercials for the Galaxy 3 that doesn’t talk about how great of a phone it is but instead decides to show off what the iPhone can’t do. The biggest feature is that the Galaxy S3 can do beam which is a sharing feature in which you touch two S3’s together to share pic and videos. Problem is that many people are saying setting up the beam feature is difficult and also there is an issue with the fact you can only share with other S3 phones which obviously limits your sharing options. Here is the commercial that is being run. Enjoy!
The Bible has always been a mainstay infamy hotels. Well one hotel in Newcastle is going to take that to a new level. They are putting a digital Bible for all 148 rooms. They will do this with a Kindle ereader with Gideon’s Bible already installed. You will not be held to just the Bible you can purchase any books you want to read. Anything you buy will be put on your bill just like renting a movie or opening anything in the mini bar. So far Newcastle in England is the only one I have read about doing this new type Bible with the opportunity of making more money from the ereader . So if you want to see this you will have to travel to England or just buy a Kindle. I am sure if this is successful we could see this happening in the US soon.
Dell has found a way to strengthen their systems management, data protection and security services and that is by purchasing the enterprise software specialist Quest Software for a mild $2.4 billion dollars. This will provide Dell with critical components that will expand its software capabilities in the systems management, data security, and data protection. This will mean they will assume control of the SonicWALL and Secureworks security solutions of Quest on top its monitoring solutions for applications, networks and database and its sever management solutions. This should close in the third fiscal quarter once it is approved by the shareholders of Quest.
If you read my blog on Friday you would know that RIM the makers of the Blackberry products in in dire straits right now and will not have their new Blackberry 10 software out on the new phones until sometime in 2013. Well apparently Steve Ballmer the CEO of Microsoft approached RIM about cutting a deal of the likes Microsoft did with Nokia and having the Windows mobile platform me the OS of their phones. So the key idea of this would have been RIM scraping the BlackBerry OS 10 and adopt the new Windows 8 OS. Even though looking back it now it might be a good idea to get another company to help them out but instead RIM wants to hold strong . Here is a statement made by the CEO Thorsten Heins backing up their decision to not use third party software in their devices.
?We came to the decision that joining the family of the Android players, for example, would not fit RIM?s strategy and its customers,? he said. ?We are not trying to be one of many. We?re trying to be different. We?re trying to be the best solution for our customers that buy a BlackBerry, know why they want a BlackBerry. And we?re aiming for nothing less than being a viable, successful, mobile computing platform of the future. This is what we?re aiming at. And I think that?s the difference. If you compare us with others, did we take the hard rod? Absolutely. Absolutely. But having done this and building and completing this new mobile computing platform that then expresses itself as a smartphone or as a tablet or as a vertical application or embedded in cars, whatever you want to do, that is where we will take BlackBerry. And this is ? that?s why it was absolutely required and necessary to build its own platform. I would argue the other way around. If I continue to rely on somebody else?s OS and somebody else?s platform, would that allow me in the long run to really differentiate towards my customers and provide them the services and the environment that they request from me and that they would like to have? I have a big question mark around this. So I think going this way and building the platform we are building has the absolute intent to serve our customers and our markets better than on a standard-based OS and platform.?
As I often do I try to keep up with trending topics and issues to talk about on this blog. Well I found a really interesting one that could help you as a Mac user not have to bang your head against the keyboard trying to figure out why something is going wrong with a product you most likely feel should not have any problems what so ever. Apple?s support communities have reported that the new Macbook Airs have been crashing frequently and for the most part the main culprit has been Google Chrome. Google did confirm this to be the case on Macs featuring the Intel HD 4000 graphics chip which are only in the new Macbook Airs. Google is currently working diligently on the fix for this and has temporarily disabled some of the Chromes GPU acceleration through an autoupdate. Below is the companies full statement on the matter.
?We have identified a leak of graphics resources in the Chrome browser related to the drawing of plugins on Mac OS X. Work is proceeding to find and fix the root cause of the leak.
The resource leak is causing a kernel panic on Mac hardware containing the Intel HD 4000 graphics chip (e.g. the new Macbook Airs). Radar bug number 11762608 has been filed with Apple regarding the kernel panics, since it should not be possible for an application to trigger such behavior.
While the root cause of the leak is being fixed, we are temporarily disabling some of Chrome?s GPU acceleration features on the affected hardware via an auto-updated release that went out this afternoon (Thursday June 28). We anticipate further fixes in the coming days which will re-enable many or all of these features on this hardware.?
The makers of Blackberry have had a tough go of it the last few years. Well there are more issues after reports of their Q1. They have reported the first net loss in 8 years. Not only that but they have also announced more job cuts. RIM is truly struggling theses last few years just looking at the playbook tablet and the problems they had with that and of course the struggles of keeping up with the iPhone and Android phones. Finally the blackberry 10 phone has been delayed until 2013. This is the biggest hit to blackberry’s future. Without this phone who knows how many more shots blackberry will take with no new solid phone options. Seeing the new galaxy s3 coming out and the iPhone 5 on the way I don’t see the blackberry 10 revolutionizing the phone industry. So sooner then later I see RIM either being sold or going through bankruptcy even in the next few years.
