The Future Of Publishing Blog by Thad McIlroy
January 7th, 2010
Above is the headline in a tiny article in today’s New York Times. I reference it because it states what I believe to be true: “Stuck between the still-evolving smartphone and the emerging tablet computer, the netbook computer would seem to be doomed.” It’s not so much that I necesarily feel that the NetBook is doomed,…
November 6th, 2009
So much easier to use the title of the article I’m blogging that to think up another title that says the same thing: “The Best of Today’s E-Book Readers” is the name of a brief, superficial and badly-researched article in PC World, published November 2nd. I note it for two reasons. The first is that…
November 5th, 2009
Fortune Magazine has christened Apple Computer’s CEO, Steve Jobs, as “CEO of the Decade.” You certainly will find no disagreement from this corner. The Official Steve Jobs Photo from Apple Computer’s web site You’ll find some great coverage of the man, his career and his products at the link above (reinserted here for the mouse-weary). People…
September 2nd, 2009
There isn’t a whole lot of data on this ZDNet posting, but the news is larger than the data. Nokia is showing (off) its first netbook, the Booklet 3G, at a trade show in Germany. Here’s what I don’t care about the announcement: there are lots of competing netbooks on the market already most are…
February 17th, 2009
Two very interesting blogs/articles on ZDNet cover a fascinating story from slightly different angles. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes points out something that I never imagined happening in my lifetime: The price of PCs, in particular of netbooks, is dropping so fast that soon the operating system (at least the Windows operating system), threatens to become more expensive…