Entries Tagged as 'Products'

Wednesday, April 28th, 2010

Sign of the Times: A Floppy Disk Retrospective

With Sony ending production of the 3.5″ floppy disk next year, I wanted to put together this retrospective. Of specific note is that the iMac debuted commercially before the USB thumb drive did, so the release of the USB drive could be indirectly attributed to Apples design decisions; kind of neat. So without further ado: [...]

Tuesday, April 27th, 2010

Adobe Finally Gives Up on Apple

Well, it finally happened, after several years of trying, Adobe finally gave up on Flash for the iPhone, and has announced that they will be turning their undivided attention to supporting Android and other third party operating systems instead. This, announced yesterday, just hours after Apple issued a statement that it would no longer be [...]

Sunday, April 25th, 2010

Bing and the Decision Engine Sub-Culture

I keep thinking about Microsoft’s search engine Bing, and wondering how it’s been stacking up in the last year or so. It debuted last year in June, and thus far its progress has been anything but extraordinary since it’s only maintaining a 3% adoption rate among search engine users. Still, the operating system has a [...]

Monday, April 19th, 2010

Lego Sculpture in the News

Yahoo.com the other week had a couple of articles a couple of weeks ago on trendy uses of Lego in commercial art projects. One featured an exhibit at the Philedelphia Zoo that featured endangered animals rendered in your favorite plastic childrens plastic toy, and another article featured an exhibition of the work of Nathan Sawaya, [...]

Tuesday, April 13th, 2010

The Kin, By Microsoft

I have kind of love hate relationship with the Kin. On the one hand, a phone specifically tailored to social networking sites seems like a sure fire deal, but on the other, it just doesn’t really capture the imagination the way that a lot of similar products such as your basic utilitarian iPhone, the Palm [...]