iPhone vs. Blackberry Bold

I've seen a lot of different articles in different places talking about how the iPhone will be competition to the smartphone lines from Blackberry. This is very inaccurate for the consumer. It should be that the Blackberry is competition to the iPhone, and even then, that still sounds bad, because it's an obvious choice of which one is better, unless we're talking about the older versions of the iPhones and Blackberries.

Here's why:
1) The new Blackberry bold is far too expensive even with a contract and will probably be outrageous without a contract, with Rogers listing the Blackberry bold for $399 on a three year contract with further expenses from the plan. That's even more than the 16 GB iPhone!
2) The New Blackberry also has only 1 GB of Storage which means that you can store far less on your Bold than your iPhone.
3) The overall hardware specs are no match for the iPhone, especially when you consider that it's more expensive than the iPhone. Plus, for the consumer market, the iPhone apps and capabilities are probably much more attractive than the Bold.

However, it's a different story for the corporate world, seeing as many of the Blackberry Bold's applications are very useful in the corporate world. Businesses will probably see the Bold as a viable competitor to the iPhone for now, unless the iPhone can seriously improvement on functions such as email, text messaging, and other functions required by businesses.

In my opinion, the iPhone certainly gets you more bang for the buck as the hardware is much better, and when you have the hardware, the software comes easily.

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BlackBerry Bold to hit Canada

This week, the New Blackberry Bold 9000 will be coming to Canada via Rogers Communications Inc. This new blackberry is a high end model that matches the screen resolution of the iPhone but not the screen size.
Rogers will be the sole carrier for the new Blackberry Bold in Canada and AT&T will be the sole carrier of the Bold in the US.
Rogers has not disclosed the price of the coming Blackberry but it may be extremely expensive.
The Bold was already released in Germany, and for comparison, here are their prices.It's about 459.95 euros ($680 US) without a plan. And with a plan, it is 129.95 euros ($190 US).
Apparently, according to a leaked image on CrackBerry, Rogers will be charging $399 with a 3 year contract. Although this image may be false, it seems to look pretty official. Generally, with a 3 year contract, it really shouldn't be that expensive, being even more expensive than the iPhone. But we'll have to wait for the price to be confirmed.

Although the iPhone is going to be a serious competitor in the smartphone business, most people think the Blackberries are better for emailing and messaging because of the keypad instead of being touchscreen. The Bold will only be the first of many models Research In Motion plans on releasing. They say they will release a touchscreen model called the Thunder.

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Live Mesh Expands

Microsoft announced the expansion of their Live Mesh in a blog post. If you didn't know yet, Live Mesh is a software to allow synchronization among many devices, which you can find more info on, if you search up Live Mesh.
Previously, this service was only available without a wait list to the USA, but was then expanded to include the UK, New Zealand, and Australia. It has now been expanded to also include Canada, India, and Ireland.
They still have a limit to the users they'll allow to their preview without a wait list so those who want to take advantage should do so quickly.

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Microsoft creates a new blog for Windows 7

Microsoft has recently created a brand new blog with the topic of Windows 7. their first post was on the 14th and we can anticipate more information about Windows 7. However, they have learned from Vista, and so they are being more cautious in releasing details of their new OS.
In their second post, they wrote,

"We, as a team, definitely learned some lessons about “disclosure” and how we can all too easily get ahead of ourselves in talking about features before our understanding of them is solid. Our intent with Windows 7 and the pre-release communication is to make sure that we have a reasonable degree of confidence in what we talk about when we do talk. Again, top of mind for us is the responsibility we feel to make sure we are not stressing priorities, churning resource allocations, or causing strategic confusion among the tens of thousands of partners and customers who care deeply and have much invested in the evolution of Windows.

As Vista required significant hardware investments to run it and also had many problems when first released, Windows 7 promises to deliver a much improved Vista. They will no doubt fix all or at least most of the problems that happened with Vista. By the time Windows 7 finally comes out, the hardware world will have greatly improved and will likely be able to meet with the demands of their Windows 7 Project. For everyone who held out on buying Vista, it's only a year and a half away from a (hopefully) much better OS.

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Should Companies pursue legal action against Mygazines?

    Mygazines.com is a site that allows users to share view magazines online. However, this is obviously going to cause copyright problems.
It first launched in late July, with no ads and being free to join. Digital copies of magazines could be easily read and commented/rated on. Time Warner's Time Division says that they want to try and shut down the site. But for Mygazines, it seems that they have escaped being prosecuted by law.
Their domain name is registered in the Caribbean and its servers hosted in Sweden. Thus, U.S. copyright law will be unable to prosecute them.
   
    I think the real question is whether or not the magazine producers should pursue legal action at all. When digital copies of magazines are uploaded and viewed, the original ads from the magazine are also exposed. Theoretically,the magazine companies could then charge more for space advertising because of the higher exposure of their magazine. It's common knowledge that many magazine companies deliberately take a loss in newsstand sales simply because they want more public exposure for their magazine, which allows them to charge more for advertising. Most magazines generally make their money off of advertising and not actually single copy sales, or even subscriptions. Plus, when people view the magazine online,the magazine companies can save on printing costs.
    However, the biggest disadvantage here, would probably be that many magazine companies would lose out on subscriptions and advertisers might refuse to view the online exposure as public interest in the magazine. Though I believe that to be unlikely. Obviously, if magazines could charge more for advertising then that would make up for lost sales and then some. As Mygazines is still very new, we'll just have to wait and see how it plays out. Post a comment and tell us what you think of this situation.

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200,000 iPhone Order Possibility

HSBC the global banking company is considering to possibly order 200,000 iPhones and adopt it as their official corporate mobile device. That would mean that they could leave behind the BlackBerry Smartphones.
This is a huge decision and could lead to a massive iPhone order. When the iPhone was first release,many companies were unsure of whether or not to standardize it due to lack of availability and little support for Microsoft's Exchange email platform.Both of these problems have been fixed and companies can now consider switching to the iPhone.
Although the iPhone has been very popular for the individual consumer, it may not be fully suited by corporate use. However, Apple has added new tools to the new iPhone 3G to support corporate use.

It seems to me that the iPhone has good points and is probably as capable as the BlackBerry in terms of corporate use. However, the BlackBerry's superior email capabilities may keep them alive for the moment. It really all depends on how much more popular the iPhone can become. If the iPhone continues to gain popularity, it's possible that more and more companies will start to consider using the iPhone as a standard.

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D.C. Tech lobby group behind the scenes

A Washington D.C. Tech lobby group may be the secret authors of an article which Mel King placed his name on,on the Harvard Crimson.I found this to be very interesting in many ways. You can see the original article that I saw here.

As the article points out,Mel King placed his name and an opinion piece that was completely contradictory to what his position was previously.This pro-Comcast article may have been written by LawMedia Group which Comcast hired.That would account for the article being so contradictory.
LawMedia Group is emerging as a highly secretive group that is lobbying for all kinds of companies including Microsoft, whom the represented to lobby against the Google-Yahoo advertising deal. That there are such lobby groups doesn't surprise me. What does surprise me is how incredibly secretive they are.

Until just recently, it appears that their websites was mostly full of password-locked pages. No clients,no employee names,no founder names,and no principals are given either.
Unfortunately for LMG,they've been found out and are now in the spotlight. the media had discovered that they may have had to do which certian anti-walmart op-eds supposed to be authored by Charles Steele Jr. And they are once again in the spotlight now.

It seems that LMG was highly involved in King's op-ed.Perhaps an obvious fault by LMG was placing the exact same statement from a letter supposedly witten by Rev. Jesse Jackson in King's op-ed. "People of color make up 33 percent of our population but own just 3 percent of all broadcast TV stations--and research shows that the number of owners is plummeting at alarming levels." Obviously, either someone from LMG copied it, or happened to be the same author and just reused it to save time. Even stranger is that Jackson denied having made the statement even though it was in the letter to the Federal Communications Commission.

If LMG wrote such statements for all these people, then who else have they been writing for? What about other companies? And exactly how deeply involved has LMG been in these topics? It seems to me that as time goes by, the truth will slowly unravel itself, regardless of how much LMG tries to hide or deny it.

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Olympic Digital Fireworks

Ever since the the Opening Ceremony of the Olympics of '08'08'08 was broadcast everywhere, everyone's been talking about it. However, it seems that even the opening ceremony used some digital editing. Apparently, the Olympic footage of certain fireworks including the 29 footprints were edited into the video. Of course, the fireworks did happen, it just that they were prerecorded for safety reasons.
It was a very good simulation and I don't think it's really that big of a deal. I think it shows how much dedication the Chinese have to put on the best show they could safely. Even the helicopter shaking of the camera and the Beijing pollution was simulated.
I believe that such an act does not merit any concern and after all, it was a great show.

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Unwrapping the 3D with Unwrap Mosaic

This brand new technology demoed by Microsoft (Click for Video) is capable of allowing people to edit certain things onto video objects as easily as it can currently be done with digital photos.

"What we've done is built away of patterning the essence of a video in a single pattern," said Andrew Fitzgibbon, who presented the technology Tuesday at the SIGGRAPH trade show in Los Angeles. The key to that technique is that unwrapped or flattened image."

The research technology was dubbed Unwrap Mosaic. Like it name suggests, it works by unwrapping 3D objects into a sort of flat image.
Here's what I think of it. It's a great advancement, but it was to come sooner or later. Although the aspect that really differs from the editing in the movies I find quite interesting. If anybody wants to edit a face, then in the movies, it would be done by using a model of the face. But this brand new technology can edit moving video directly. Although it remains a research technology for now, we can hope that it will become widely available soon.

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Vista Or No Vista?

    Ever since Vista came out,everybody's been complaining about it. But the real question is, should you get vista? This question is asked a lot by businesses who are unsure of whether or not they should upgrade to vista. Less frequently is it asked by consumers.
    This questions really isn't all that hard to answer. Let's start with businesses.If you have yet to upgrade to vista now, then it's probably best never to upgrade to vista. After all, XP will receive critical support until 2014 and the new Windows 7 will be released in 2010. It seems obvious that, due to Vista's lack of positive feedback, if you don't already have it by now, just don't get it. Unfortunately, it may not be as simple as this. Microsoft said that it would easy to upgrade from Vista to Windows 7, but they didn't say anything about upgrading from XP to Windows 7. Although this shouldn't be too much of a problem, it is something to think about. If you already have Vista, then there's really no need to downgrade to XP. XP is not significantly better than Vista, and Vista does boast considerable security benefits.
    Now we move on to the home use of Vista. Well, the best advice I can give you, is just stick whatever came with the computer, unless the operating system is below XP. All these operating systems don't really make that much of a difference in day-to-day use unless you're a hardcore gamer or something like that.Even then, Vista isn't a bad choice. If the computer came with an Apple operating system, then I'd still suggest that you stick with what it came with. Changing it is really just a waste of time for the average home-user.
    And that's the end of it. Let's hope that Windows 7 will be much better than Vista.

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