I was hoping you’d say potatoes

By Don Dingee on May 12, 2012 in Stories

A short story on the illusion of choice, and being alright with what happens.

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Riptide GP

The tablet of Doom, or Riptide

By Don Dingee on May 2, 2012 in Smart Mobile

Notwithstanding benchmarking science, the real test of a PC was Doom. There isn’t exactly a good, cross platform test for mobile devices yet. Does it even matter past a point of visual acuity?

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The proof is left to the reader

By Don Dingee on April 25, 2012 in Smart Mobile, Social-Powered Consumer

I’m a press conference junkie, and a couple of gems this week reminded me of this statement, and what a bad idea it is for tech marketers.

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8 Reasons This Isn’t Tech Bubble 2.0

By Don Dingee on April 9, 2012 in Smart Mobile, Social-Powered Consumer

$1B for Instagram, from Facebook about to go public at at least $5B. These social types are crazy. Get on the Bubble Wagon, but you’re gonna be disappointed.

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Last clicks come from first looks

By Don Dingee on March 22, 2012 in Smart Mobile, Social-Powered Consumer

Romantics abound, I’m one myself. But love at first sight really isn’t, and purchases don’t happen magically at the last click. A new report explains the undervalued power of social media programs.

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From trusting to hashing to trusting again

By Don Dingee on March 14, 2012 in Internet of Things

All it takes is a minor breach of trust to undo innovation. In microcontroller designs, we need a bit less trust and a bit more hashing and encryption to preserve the trust.

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Adrift on the sea of social silence

By Don Dingee on February 29, 2012 in Social-Powered Consumer

Constant chatter can sound like silence for the socially struggling. Our words, spoken or unspoken, have an impact and can help – if we stop broadcasting and start listening.

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Multicore benchmarks look inside new phones

By Don Dingee on February 23, 2012 in Smart Mobile

Comparing a 4 (er, make that 5) core NVIDIA processor to a dual-core Qualcomm processor would seem like an uneven match. But, cores are not created equal.

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Really, really small antennas may save local TV

By Don Dingee on February 16, 2012 in Smart Mobile, Social-Powered Consumer

Local over-the-air TV still holds a good value proposition, but as more and more viewers go mobile, they are missing live broadcast content. Enter an idea from Aereo.

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Alex Penny, and the Make-A-Wish robot flash mob

Real people becoming robots for a wish

By Don Dingee on February 13, 2012 in Social-Powered Consumer

If you can’t get world peace, get some robots together to help people. This great story from the University of Washington and the Make-A-Wish Foundation is touching.

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