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When a little free time opened up last week, I scanned my long-term task list to find “VoIP softphone for my iPad” was still unfinished business. By VoIP, I really mean SIP or Session Initiation Protocol, which is the open-source … Continue reading →

There’s a revealing quote in James B. Stewart’s piece on Steve Jobs in today’s New York Times. Stewart captures the essence of Job’s vision of production design and refers to an interview in Fortune magazine where he calls design “the … Continue reading →

I haven’t been attending New York Tech Meetups lately but there was one demo at last night’s gathering I would have liked to have seen. Idea Flight from the folks at Conde Nast Digital turns the iPad into a collaborative … Continue reading →

While on the way to other activities yesterday, I paid a call at Samsung’s retail store at the Time-Warner building, the mini-metropolis anchored at the start of New York’s Central Park. The plan: give the Galaxy Tab a hands-on and … Continue reading →

On Friday, our friends at Yixin Industry International Group (Shenzhen, China) emailed us with news on a new tablet computer. I guess it won’t be a surprise if I report that their MID YX-7100 product is a 7” iPad clone … Continue reading →

Image via Wikipedia Perhaps only a company of Cisco’s still considerable market heft can foist its recently revealed Cius (pronounced “see us”) tablet on the citizens of cubeland. Many of the tech bloggers are underwhelmed and ask the question, “Why?”. … Continue reading →

Shown off at the Consumer Electronics Show in January, Freescale’s  7″ tablet prototype was supposed to inspire manufacturers and design houses to produce real products.  Realease took the bait and has followed up with an iPad clone it calls Shogo. … Continue reading →

I saw the iPad last night for the first time at Apple's SoHo store in Manhattan. It is an amazing thing. A bit of futuristic Star Trek-level technology that found its way into the year 2010: a large-sized tricorder with great video. (And to think that Spock struggled with that mouseless gadget!). I watched a few videos (smooth, fluid ), tried one of the book readers (seductive), and was wowed by a location-sensitive astronomy app called Star Walk. It is not a smaller this or a larger that. I remember similar dismissive talk about mini-computers and personal computers. It's a new genre of touch-sensitive, location-aware multimedia gagdets that will create its own uses—many that we can not even conceive of at this point. With the Epciurious app, I already see the beginnings of a whole new market of kitchen countertop virtual cookbooks. If they can just hook in speech rec.... Continue reading →

Or pay $15 for 250 megabytes of Internet data; when it runs out, you can either buy another 250 megs, or just upgrade to the unlimited plan for the month. Either way, you can cancel and rejoin as often as … Continue reading →

Remember the iPhone? It’s like a smaller version of the iPad. Anyway, the tech press is all over the news that Apple unlocked VoIP calling within the iPhone SDK . The first app to take advantage is iCall (or maybe … Continue reading →