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Dell 10-inch Tablet Not Coming Until Fall

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Apr. 04, 2011
Since October last year Dell has been hinting about a tablet product. In February it announced the pending release of a 10-inch Windows 7-based model. Now it looks like those devices will not be available until the fall – potentially in time to make the back-to-school or holiday shopping seasons, but nearly 2 years after the iPad created, then ran away with, the tablet market.

HP and Asus, among others, have already released Windows 7-powered tablets, and Windows 8, rumored to be coming out in 2012. will apparently be more “tablet friendly” (whatever that means). Predictably, Dell is believed to be preparing a Windows 8 tablet for release around that time as well.

Author’s Note: So Microsoft is playing catch-up again. As if we needed another reminder that smart, nimble applications and devices are better than over-lawyered, bloated me-too products  (“Office 14″ anyone?). You heard me, Redmond. Think about what a screw-job it took to drive so many into the waiting arms of Steve Jobs. It’s like watching GM implode all over again. First the euphoria. Then the malaise. Then the slow decline. Finally, the anticlimactic death.

P.S. Bill, no matter how many kids you pat condescendingly on the head you’re still not going to be remembered as a saint. Will you and your wife go home, already?

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04 2011


by practicehacker
posted in Apple, Article, business, collaborative tools, comments, competition, disruptive technology, Google, Honeycomb, iPad, iPad Apps, technology, the business of law, tools
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iPad Tips for Lawyers

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My iPad2 should be a arriving in a few weeks, assuming it doesn’t fall victim to production backlogs, Somali pirates, or earthquake/tsunami related delays. In the meantime I’ve been doing some solid Lawyer/iPad bonding and in the process I found this great information at The Mac Lawyer (hat tip). In addition to programs like TrialPad, which I wrote about here, take a look at these productivity-enhancing iPad applications:

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03 2011


by practicehacker
posted in Apple, business, iPad, iPad Apps, mobile, tips, tools, Wordpress
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Now it’s a party …

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Recently posts like this one have speculated that we may be experiencing yet another bubble. If you’re playing our home game you know that’s bubble #3; the dot-com boondoggle, the Web 2.0 inflate-a-thon, and now … Color.

What is Color? A photo-sharing App with wrinkles like automatically merging photos with those of every other user within 150 feet. Bam! Instant photo network with total strangers. That’s not creepy.

Business models aside however, here’s the thing. Color just came out, has never made a dime, and may never work out. But it just got $41,000,000 in venture capital funding. Sound familiar? Does Pets.com ring any bells? Netscape? Webvan? Kozmo? Flooz? Gov.com?

All coming back to you? Maybe it’s time to put your money into something stable like Tulip Bulbs.

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03 2011


by practicehacker
posted in android, Apple, apps, collaborative tools, community, crowdsourcing, current-events, disruptive technology, Foursquare, free, geolocation, iPad, iPad Apps, iPhone, iPhone Apps, location-based, media, mobile, Mobile device, moblogging, PDA/SMARTPHONE, social media tools, social networking, startup, tips, tools
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Podio – One app to rule them all, One app to bind them

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It’s Basecamp … it’s Highrise … it’s DropBox … it’s Yammer … it’s … Podio? Yes it is. And it’s on your iPhone, your iPad, your Android device, and in your office. Danish start-up Podio has elegantly married file sharing, contact management, task tracking, real-time asynchronous communication (i.e. Twitter functions) and more into a single, easy to use, free package. Did I say free? Yeah I did. Free for up to 10 users in a company. $99/year for up to 25. That makes Podio a no-brainer for solo’s and small law firms. Compare what it does and what it costs with the bill of goods you’re currently being sold by legal technology vendors who assume lawyers are too uninformed, gullible, or busy to check up on them. It’s shameful. Meanwhile, Podio integrates functions that the more tech-literate among us now use in Basecamp, Dropbox, Yammer, and other applications. But for most lawyers Podio will simply be a revelation and unbelievable resource. Hey, did I just save you thousands of dollars in useless, bloated office software? I think I did. You’re welcome. And by the way: Boom Shakalaka!

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03 2011


by practicehacker
posted in 37 Signals, free, GTD, iPad, iPad Apps, iPhone, iPhone Apps, Office
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AT&T to T-Mobile: “I will eat your soul”

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The rich get richer …

As you probably know by now, this weekend AT&T and Deutsche Telekom entered into a definitive agreement for the sale of T-Mobile for $39 billion, creating a cell carrier just bigger than Verizon with a customer base of 130 million people; giving rise to a virtual monopoly among cell carriers . Looks like AT&T is back in its comfort zone.

iPhone and iPad users can now look forward to decades of sub-par service from the leaders in customer disappointment. Glad I bought that iPad with 3G capabilities so I can give more of my $ to AT&T.

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03 2011


by practicehacker
posted in .mobi, business, current-events, iPad, iPhone, Mobile device, Telephony & Voice Over IP, tools
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Foursquare co-founder on dealing with data overload

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Naveen Selvadurai, co-founder of Foursquare, offered up advice at this year’s SXSW conference about living with the constant data bombardment we face every day. In his words, there’s no stopping the data fire hose, but there are ways to cope. After making some suggestions he pointed out that it helps to have a “killer ‘fro like mine; chicks dig it. Well, that plus my millions of dollars. But you know.” Words to live by.

It helps to have a killer ‘fro and live in the fast-lane. Yeah chicks dig that. Sorry, what was the question again …?

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03 2011


by practicehacker
posted in apps, Article, comments, current-events, disruptive technology, Foursquare, Glympse, india, iPhone Apps, lifestreaming, location-based, mobile, tablet, tips, tools, twitter, Uncategorized
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