Intel, Smartphones And Chips

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During the PC era Intel was the clear leader. But it has been missing in action in the smartphone era. There is no Intel inside. Bigger is not better, more powerful is not better. Weird, right? Mobile keeps confounding the smartest.

The tablet is closer to the smartphone than it is to the laptop. And it is still an uphill battle for Intel. People are more concerned about battery life than power. But power would be nice too.

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Facebook Eating Into Its Ecosystem

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Right before Bill Gates retired he was talking in terms of baking anti-virus software right into Windows. He had been doing things like that during the entire life of that operating system. Remember when he baked the web browser into Windows and got into trouble?

I think it is but natural for Facebook to eat up into its ecosystem. Instagram owed no small amount of its user base growth to the fact that it used the social graphs on Facebook to spread the word. And guess what happened.

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Facebook's sudden openness to owning more of its platform

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Surfacing

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Microsoft Admits Risk in Tablet Plans

its Surface family of tablet computers could weaken support for Windows

The tablet took off without Microsoft. Steve Jobs likened it to a car when the PC was a truck. The tablet is a phenomenon. It is happening. It is eating up the world. A lot of the PC action is shifting to the tablet space.

Isn't this what the innovator's dilemma is? To build the next big thing you have to cannibalize your existing cash cow. And why would you do that? Right?

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A Stealing Kind Of App

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For all intents and purposes your mobile operating system should be more infected than Windows. If it is not it is because the bad guys simply have not had the time to zero in.

There is much more room for mischief in the mobile space.

Google Approves an App that Steals All Your Data

an app that stealthily steals personal data such as photos and contacts ..... Google needs to improve both its app-scanning system and its Android operating system. ...... SMS Bloxor was finally pulled from the store after the researchers uploaded a version that continuously sent all the data from a device back to the app's creators, without ever stopping. ..... app stores will soon be subject to significant criminal efforts .... the coming wave. ..... most examples of mobile malware consist of targeted attacks against individuals, such as CEOs that might have access to valuable corporate data. "Round the corner is going to be some more widespread catastrophe that's could hit tens of thousands or millions of users."

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Mobile And The Enterprise

Tim Cook, Apple COO, in january 2009, after Macworld Expo keynote. Picture by Valery Marchive (LeMagIT) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

iOS Soars Ahead of Android

Development As Apple Quietly Makes Move Into The Enterprise Market
Apple now has an enterprise associate in every Apple store..... The interest in Windows is arguably as interesting as Apple’s gains. Could this be the new race between Apple and Microsoft?

Steve Jobs had disdain for the enterprise space. For him it was all about consumers. At one All Things D conference he basically called CIOs of big companies "assholes." And he was not using indirect language.

So it is interesting to see Apple is making a conscious effort to hit the enterprise space under Tim Cook.

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