windows phone at winter wonderfest

December 6th, 2009 by admin under events, gadgets

i had a great time this past friday at the windows phone workplayland at the navy pier winter wonderfest. i was joined by some other great microsoft folks including adam hecktman (pictured above telling all about one of the new windows phones available), chris bernard, and some great folks from the product group. 

arrington, the mid market is dead

July 4th, 2009 by admin under gadgets

on a recent plane ride, i read an article on how the mid (mobile internet device) market is dead. now if someone would just tell michael arrington. don’t get me wrong, i was one of the few owners of those cute little oqo devices and did use it pretty often. the problem with what mr. [...]

touch me

May 23rd, 2009 by admin under gadgets

only a pc can get away saying “touch me” in public. the hp touchsmart is a great machine especially when taking advantage of windows 7 multitouch features. this one at midway is still running vista but will definitely welcome the upgrade to windows 7.

netbooks are a fad

April 26th, 2009 by admin under gadgets

i know that netbooks are all the buzz lately, but i still don’t get it. i had played with one for a day thinking that this might be an inexpensive was to travel lightly. i guess i am just not into small and underpowered (i almost made a reference to a certain comment often used [...]

the creator of touch flo

April 6th, 2009 by admin under gadgets

i was just checking out a couple blog engines and ran into the guy that designed htc touch flo. wtf? dave brinda is awesome!