Cute print box + easy connectivity + humor sense = http://bergcloud.com/littleprinter/#!prettyPhoto
Make it self-sticky, and it’d make for an awesome Post-It printer!
The King of Human Error
http://m.vanityfair.com/business/features/2011/12/michael-lewis-201112?curren... In making judgments, people tend to use the “availability heuristic.” As Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky have shown, people often assess the probability of an event by asking whether relevant examples are cognitively “available” [i.e., can be easily remembered]. Thus [because they more readily recall words ending in “ing” than other words with penultimate “n”s, such as “bond” or “mane”], people are likely to think that more words, on a random page, end with the letters “ing” than have “n” as their next to last letter—even though a moment’s reflection will show that this could not possibly be the case. Now, it is not exactly dumb to use the availability heuristic. Sometimes it is the best guide that we possess. Yet reliable statistical evidence will outperform the availability heuristic every time. Sent from Mobile
The Social Graph is Neither (Pinboard Blog)
http://blog.pinboard.in/2011/11/the_social_graph_is_neither/ Relying on programmers to map real world social connections is like “hiring a Mormon bartender” and other observations on why our strange urge to document the nodes of friendship is doomed. Sent from Mobile
Tablet makers without content may exit
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A report from Asia on Thursday says that tablet device makers who don’t have content to sell may follow Hewlett-Packard Co. 's lead and pull out of the market before long.
The report in Digitimes cites unnamed Asian suppliers who said that Acer, Asustek and Dell Inc. are all contemplating phasing out of tablets in 2012.
The problem, according to the report, is that they can't compete on price against Apple Inc. 's (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPad, Amazon.com Inc. 's (NASDAQ:AMZN) Kindle Fire or Barnes & Noble 's Nook Tablet.
That is because those three tablets are tied to companies with big content stores, enabling them to cut prices below what companies that are just making devices can offer.
The $199 Kindle Fire and $249 Nook Tablet are both said to be priced below what they cost to make.
Digitimes' sources even said that it is conceivable that some tablets will eventually be given away for free in order to sell products from these companies' stores.
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Comparison: Tablet v Smartphone
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There are several reasons why a daring company like Amazon, uninterested in having its fate determined by Apple’s total control of iOS and Google’s total lack of control over Android, would want to chart its own course in mobile. Dan Frommer at SplatF nicely outlined several reasons how this could work out well for Amazon.
—Different Paths: But as the iPad and tablet-wannabes mature, we’re learning just how different smartphones are than tablets. In these early days, the average tablet spends most of its time in the house. A huge percentage of them are Wi-Fi only, lacking a connection to mobile data networks through wireless carriers. And while apps are still important, Web surfing is more common on tabletsthan on smartphones.
Smartphones, on the other hand, need to be available and accessible everywhere. They’re mostly sold at retail by wireless carriers, who find ways to exert their own (and often competing) interests on the phones they sell. And applications are more important, which is why fragmentation is such a prevalent issue among Android developers confronted with an array of screen sizes and custom user interfaces across Android phones.
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How Fast Is Apple's IPhone 4S? | The Daily Feed | Minyanville.com
Even the venerable iPhone 4 gets a speed bump with IOS5! =)
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AnandTech ran Apple's new flagship phone through aseries of benchmarks, and the device cruised through the tests -- even topping Samsung's Galaxy Tab under certain conditions. In terms of Javascript performance, the iPhone 4S sailed past Android offerings and nestled close to the Galaxy Tab. In the graphics department, the device also topped the Android competition by a significant margin and neared the iPad 2's ranking.Once the overall results were tallied, AnandTech concluded, "Using some of the integer and fp tests of published Geekbench scores we can already conclude that Apple is shipping a lower clocked A5 in the iPhone 4S than it does in the iPad 2. This naturally makes sense as the iPhone 4S has a much smaller 5.25 Whr battery." Adding, "Based on the Geekbench results it looks like the iPad 2 is clocked around 25% higher than the iPhone 4S, pegging the latter's clock speed at 800MHz."So, in short, if you buy the iPhone 4S, you're getting yourself a powerful machine.
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Apple Headed for 60 Percent of Handset Industry Operating Profits - John Paczkowski - Mobile - AllThingsD
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With the iPhone, Apple is doing to the smartphone business what it has done to the PC business with the Mac: Generating a disproportionate share of profits relative to revenue.
In its third quarter, Apple captured more than half of the handset industry’s overall operating profits — 52 percent, according to Canaccord Genuity analyst T. Michael Walkley. And it managed it with only a 4.2 percent global handset unit market share.
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