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Rewind pre-iPhone and computing life was far simpler and predictable for most people. You had a work computer and a home computer. Your work computer may have been a laptop which you carry with you home or on the road. If you had a BlackBerry, all you realistically did with it was e-mail. You could [...]

My tweeps on Twitter have made it clear they are interested in my perspectives about platform announcements because of my cross-platform reach so I’ve decided to start blogging my larger thoughts. Microsoft’s 2011 MIX announcements will be my first of these and I hope to do an iOS 5 post after that event. I should [...]

It’s no secret that Windows Phone 7’s launch was more of a “soft launch” given the shortages OEM’s were shipping in the first month of the platforms release. The shortages were rumoured before launch (and played down) and it was clear by the store stock around the world that getting a device was a difficult [...]

A tweet from Mary Jo Foley (@maryjofoley) linking to her latest blog post which talks about projects with codenames related to Hawaii has recalled some ideas I had awhile back regarding cloud services complimenting mobility. Now that I have a blog, it is a great opportunity to talk about them again! The term “cloud” seems [...]

While tweeting (more like ranting) about the flaws of OAuth several of my tweeps got in on the topic and we had a great creative conversation that really got some ideas in my head. I love brainstorming like interactions, thoughts just pop in out of nowhere because of something someone says. REST based web services [...]