yARN: JB Hi-Fi has kickstarted the next retail evolution
JB Hi-Fi has kickstarted the next retail evolution
JB Hi-Fi has kickstarted the next retail evolution
Android is stepping up its game across the board
In the days since Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ death last week, the internet has been flooded with so many tributes and eulogies it seems that even his old competitors are building arks to help them survive the storm.
Last week, Nikon casually kicked a small, DSLR-shaped pebble off a cliff when it announced its Nikon 1 camera. In doing so, one of the major names in consumer cameras has started an avalanche that could potentially wipe the consumer-grade DSLR from the market.
HP, Pioneer, ultrabooks, tablets ... everybody is jumping on the Apple wave ...
It happened in a flash. Just four days after HP launched its first WebOS-based TouchPad tablet on the Australian market, the company made a global decision to back away from all hardware running the Palm operating system. The fourth major tablet OS was dead in the water before it really began.
The “Australia tax” is a concept every Aussie gadget lover is familiar with. As Australians, we are expected to pay more for products than other places in the world like the UK or the US.
Finally! After years of waiting on the edge of our seats, Palm's superb WebOS touch-based mobile operating system is launching in Australia.
When Steve Jobs took to the stage at MacWorld back in 2007 and announced the original iPhone, he put special emphasis on the fact that they had patented the hell out of the technology inside the revolutionary smartphone. And now, four years later, it looks like the rest of the smartphone market could be facing some serious trouble for patent infringement.
750 million people can’t be wrong. At least, that seems to be the philosophy at Google, which had Facebook firmly set in its sights last week as it launched its latest attempt at social networking.
In the same month that Borders and Colorado announced they were closing stores all around the country, a small little technology company by the name of Apple celebrated its 10th year in the retail space by becoming more valuable as a company than Microsoft and Intel combined. In the US, more people visit Apple retail stores each year than the four Disney theme parks combined.
Mobile phone operating systems are like sporting teams for geeks. You pick a side, invest in the paraphernalia that announces your allegiances and spend your free time shouting at the referee (or online forums, as it were). At the moment, the entire Android fanbase is salivating at the arrival of the platform’s new star player, the Samsung Galaxy S II.