By all accounts, Apple’s MacBook Pro with the Retina Display is an elegant, capable machine with a dazzling screen. That beauty, it turns out, is only skin deep. If you crack open the case, you’ll discover like iFixit did, that the laptop’s innards are a disaster for people that like to repair and upgrade their own computers. [...]
When you can’t innovate, sue? Unfortunately, that seems to be the extent of the competitive strategies chapter in today’s corporate playbook. The Verge — quickly becoming one of my favorite tech blogs, FYI — has a great post on how Honeywell sicced its lawyers on Nest, the home energy management startup behind the lust-worthy, iPod-inspired [...]
Read more Nest to Honeywell: Bring it!
What happens when you cloud-enable a smart thermostat? You get delicious updates, that’s what. Nest is rolling out updates to “Nesters” over the next couple of days. According to the smart energy startup, they include some neat touches like iPhone, Android or Web apps with more controls. An exciting new addition is Energy History. As [...]
Read more Nest Floats 2.0 Update
The city of Indianola, Iowa isn’t the only municipal government that’s reducing paper waste by using iPads. The city of Vancouver, Washington is also saving lots of cash — and trees — by switching 54 city employees to Apple’s tablet. According to this post in The Verge, the city has cut printing for council meetings [...]
Read more Green Government: iPads cut Vancouver, WA paper use by 40 percent
Right now, businesses are struggling with the consumerization of IT, or BYOD (bring your own device) as many have taken to calling it. Basically, it’s the introduction of consumer gadgets like the iPad and Android smartphones into a company’s technology mix. It can cause problems like corporate data residing on a personally-owned phone that your [...]
Read more Survey: EMR most commonly supported mobile app in hospitals
Rare earth mining and its associated trade bankrolls a lot of the violence that’s gripping the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). And given the convoluted supply chains that have become a hallmark of today’s global economy, these “conflict minerals” can wind up in your electronics. That’s a problem. Nokia has taken an official stance on [...]
Read more Nokia puts suppliers on notice with anti-conflict mineral policy
Surprise, surprise… A little war of words is brewing over solid-state drives (SSDs) and their market ascendancy in 2012. SanDisk, a company best known for making memory cards — the kind that goes in cameras and other gadgets — says that its “small form-factor client SSD” business is going gangbusters. Moreover, this is the year that [...]
One Iowan city council is sick of pushing paper and they’re turning to the iPad for help. The city of Indianola purchased 17 iPad 2′s (16 GB, Wi-Fi only) for its city council members to use. Though it’s a device of many uses, one of the prime motivations behind the move is to eliminate the tens of [...]
Read more Green government: iPad helps Iowan city council go paperless
It looks like this past holiday season, Apple and Amazon moved a lot of iPads and Kindles, respectively. At least that’s what some new data from Pew Internet suggests. Ownership of tablets and e-readers both hit 19 percent in the U.S. by the end of 2011, according to the results of a survey of 2,000 [...]
Read more Stat of the day: Tablet and e-reader ownership reaches 19 percent
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