Where Invention Comes From

An epic strug­gle between the Titans of Old and New is brew­ing in Hol­ly­wood, with Adobe and Apple cast in star­ring roles. Ear­lier this year, Apple sur­prised the indus­try with its newest ver­sion of Final Cut Pro X for pro­fes­sional video edi­tors, i.e. moviemak­ers. As is their wont, Apple “thought dif­fer­ent” about what video edit­ing could […]

Faces of Journalism

With all this talk about old news out­lets giv­ing way to social media, here is a story to con­sider. This morn­ing I dialed into 5–0 Radio Pro, an iPhone app that’s a quite capa­ble police-fire-emergency radio scan­ner. After mak­ing the rounds of my reg­u­lar chan­nels, I checked out the cur­rent Top 100 and noted Nashville […]

What’s with the iPad?

After study­ing the announce­ment, con­sid­er­ing 3rd-party opin­ions and watch­ing Steve Job’s entire keynote, my take is that Apple has another hit in their hands. One can argue that iPad ver­sion 1.0 is not quite there, but regard­less, it is a solid first pitch that has claimed that odd space between smart­phones and lap­tops, in a way […]

Buzzword: Mobility

Here is my first pre­dic­tion for 2010: Mobil­ity is the new buzz­word. Apple may have just ensured this, based on cred­i­ble reports of a mobility-themed prod­uct event on Jan­u­ary 26th, when Apple is expected to announce a new tablet device which may be a game-changer for print-media con­sump­tion, espe­cially news­pa­pers and mag­a­zines. [1] Like­wise, Smartphone […]