From CNN Tech, By Lauren Indvik, Mashable, March 26, 2012 — As with any high-profile product release, Apple’s new iPad device has been peppered with complaints since reaching consumers’ hands on March 16. Among them: that magazines look terrible on the iPad 3′s high-resolution display. The complaints were first brought to light by Tumblr blogger Jamie Billett. He pointed out that in the New [...]
Archive | Hardware RSS feed for this archive
Make Technology Frictionless…please
I think this article is a very useful insight into user interface design of software and other items. To often I have been presented with a user interface to systems I am designing that are functionally complete but next to useless. To many clicks, to many screens, to much useless information presented and collected. When [...]
The Real Leadership Lessons of Steve Jobs
From Harvard Business Review – April 2012 by Walter Isaacson — (PDF Version) His saga is the entrepreneurial creation myth writ large: Steve Jobs cofounded Apple in his parents’ garage in 1976, was ousted in 1985, returned to rescue it from near bankruptcy in 1997, and by the time he died, in October 2011, had built [...]
iPhone/iPad users install 80 apps per device…and other important numbers
Some very interesting stats from Apple… each user installs on average 80 apps per device each app is downloaded on average 45,455 times each download earns the developer $0.23 there are 315 million iOS devices in use worldwide 550,000 apps available on the App Store These are some very interesting stats to use next time [...]
Finding Your Book Interrupted … By the Tablet You Read It On
Very interesting article in the NY Times on the differences between reading in hard copy and on a tablet device. — By JULIE BOSMAN and MATT RICHTEL Published: March 4, 2012, NY Times Reading a book on a tablet like the Kindle Fire is “like trying to cook when there are little children around,” David Myers said. Can you [...]
Updated : iPad3 to be announced March 7th, will you buy one? (take a poll)
Update: According to rumours the iPad3 will ship to arrive in the US March 9th, for sale sometime after that. (link) — Apple has started sending out invitations to a March 7th event where they will announce…something…(link). Everyone is assuming this will be the iPad3. Amazon has already announced iPad3 help manuals for a March 29th launch. [...]
Startups (are) for dummies
OK not really..and given that I have been involved with more than 20 start ups in my time I am kicking myself just as hard as the next guy who dreams of bootstrapping his (or her) self to technology stardom. Truth be told startups drive innovation in high-tech. Progress would be slower if garage entrepreneurs, home coders, [...]
Patents
Object Selection across Multiple Processes CA 2221648 (CIPO) US 6225994 (USPTO, Google, PDF) Packet Encryption System and Method CA 2432322 (CIPO) US 6959346 (USPTO, Google, PDF) US 7631116 (USPTO, Google, PDF) Calculating apparatus having a plurality of stages US 7017064 (USPTO, Google, PDF) Methods and apparatus for pipeline processing of encryption data US 7694045 (USPTO, Google, PDF) System and Method for Secure Data Distribution and [...]
Contact Us
Cell - +1-613-797-6222
Email - steve[at]danlargo[.]com
LinkedIn - StevieD
Twitter - DanLargo
Facebook - danlargo
Skype - danlargo
Real Artists Ship
by danlargo on April 19, 2012 in Commentary, Hardware, Mobile Apps, Mobile Marketing, Software
From VisualNews.com, FRIDAY 10.07.2011 , POSTED BY BENJAMIN STARR Jobs’s speeches were punctuated by slogans. Perhaps the most telling epigram of all was a three-word koan that Jobs scrawled on an easel in January 1983, when the project [the release of the first Mac] was months overdue. REAL ARTISTS SHIP. It was an awesome encapsulation of the ground [...]