Generally speaking a human body is a capacitor. That means at certain point, it can potentially generate 15,000 V. That’s why when humidity is low, the chances of a static discharge remains high. Have you experience making a spark when you touch some metal or even your family members? You’re exactly discharging a potential energy [...]
I just watched some live blogs from different sources at the very recently (like a few hours ago) concluded WWDC 2010. Steve Jobs, the marketing genius of Apple has just announced the new iPhone 4 to the world. It will be release in the US, France, Germany, UK and Japan on June 15, 2010. Okay, [...]
In the world of running, sprinting is totally different from long distance running and running a marathon is the fait accompli of long distance running. While we attribute endurance to a marathon, a marathon is still a race. As they say -everybody remembers the first, the fastest and the baddest but nobody remembers the second. [...]
Well, our bi-weekly podcast has been inactive for some time now but we’re trying to come back to it. If you love podcast, you may want to take a listen to MCA 077. This one is recorded last Wednesday with Bill and I talking about the emergence of iPhone HD prototype in a Vietnamese website. [...]
“Think Different” – the ad campaign that Apple launched 13 years ago. It was probably the single most important ad campaign for a company that started in a garage and became one of the most successful tech industry players. It was a phenomenal story of rags to riches, of nerds to coolmeisters and of [...]
I know, it’s been months since we did our last podcast but we’re back. On this episode, we talked about the next generation iPhone on Bill’s previous post and the troubles in Palm’s world. You can download the show or simply subscribe in iTunes.
This week we see a slew of quarterly earning reports from companies. And for wireless carriers, earnings report means disclosing their subscribers growth rate. The day after AT&T reported 512,000 or 43% decline in signing new contract customers, Verizon Wireless today also reported a plaguing downward growth rate. Verizon Wireless only added in the 1st [...]
Research In Motion, the maker of BlackBerry on Wednesday posted a fourth quarter revenue of $4.08 billion, an increase of 18%. But the market is not digging it. Revenues missed consensus estimate which is $4.31 billion. RIM stock is down on the aftermarket trading and Goldman Sachs cut the rating from “neutral” to “sell” on [...]
Qualcomm’s Gobi chipset was created with the idea that a phone, or laptop, or wireless data card does not have to be wireless technology specific. Gobi chipsets support most wireless radio technologies with the idea that you can manufacture one device, but allow it to run on different wireless networks. Qualcomm’s latest chipsets seem to [...]
What is the future of mobile computing? Most of the sci-fi movie gadgets from 20 or so years ago has become a reality. In fact, what we currently have now is way better looking and functional than captain Kirk’s Communicator. So what’s next? I think the new sci-fi movies are slow in keeping up with [...]