Posts by jaffa99

Got an iPhone or iPad? LOOK OUT for MASQUE-D INTRUDERS

Apparently.....

......iOS only just works

Of COURSE Stephen Elop's to blame for Nokia woes, says author

Re: Kallasvuo not a good defense

Kallasvuo (CEO 2005-2010) dismissed the iphone in 2007 and did nothing to respond to it. By the time Elop was hired Nokia's market share in anything with a good margin was a disaster, the company was virtually unrecoverable. Kallasvuo is 95% responsible for what happened to Nokia.

Honey, I shrunk the workstation … into a Chromebook

What do I get from a traditional OS? Nothing good.

I bought a chromebook just to see what it was like, after all virtually everything I do on a computer at home is in a browser and chrome is my browser of choice.

The chromebook was 17% of the price of my i7 powered & similarly sized ultrabook PC (perhaps this would be 30% if the chromebook case was made from the same materials). The laptop is noisy, gets hot, lasts about 20% as long on the battery, on top of that the browser and 'surfing' are actually noticeably slower. In fact the only downside is that the chromebook needs an internet connection - but web surfing on my PC does too.

So to recap the chromebook is lighter, much cheaper, silent, faster, last longer, has no real maintenance overhead & whatever chromebook I use all my files are available.

Now I'm starting to test google docs and office online to see whether that's a workable solution, since I don't do much more than edit/modify existing documents I imagine it'll be ok. As these applications develop I expect to see chromebooks displace PC's from basic office tasks particularly in small businesses, the total cost of ownership of Windows PC's in business is just a million miles from what could be achieved using chromebooks.

I hope to see larger 15" chromebooks with higher resolution and better materials (oh yeah - in normal colours please) at about double the price of the current 'toy' chromebooks. I know that's the price of a cheap Windows laptop - but the real benefits come from losing windows and all the baggage that comes with it. You should try it.

Apple wins patent on charging iThings THROUGH THIN AIR

Apple patent a 120-year-old invention, business as usual at Apple.

In 1894 Nikola Tesla used resonant inductive coupling, also known as "electro-dynamic induction" to wirelessly light up phosphorescent and incandescent lamps at the 35 South Fifth Avenue laboratory, and later at the 46 E. Houston Street laboratory in New York City. In 1897 he patented a device called the high-voltage, resonance transformer or "Tesla coil." Transferring electrical energy from the primary coil to the secondary coil by resonant induction.