I’d actually enjoy knowing if the most famous statistician in the world uses an iPhone or an Android device (gotta believe it’s Android). Today being Election Day in the USA, I’m at a cross-roads…

Jeff Yablon in Business Change and Business Process

Jul 20, 2012

Nexus 7: Just Try And Sue Google Now, Apple

Yesterday, my Nexus 7 arrived and I spent a bunch of time digging into it. I’ll have the results for you next week.

Something (almost) even cooler than my new Nexus 7 arrived at Answer Guy Central yesterday. Remember that UK…

Jeff Yablon in Business Change and Business Process

Jul 10, 2012

UK Court Rule: iPads are Cool . . . Losing Patent Protection

I’ve long had concerns about the way patents and trademarks are issued. And while I confess to knowing very little about the systems in place outside the USA, I understand how things work here well enough that one of the…

Jeff Yablon in Business Change and Business Process

Oct 4, 2011

HTC Sense Android Screen Grab Gets More Evil

When I talk evil business practice, it’s generally Apple or Google that’s in my cross-hairs. Apple does so many things disguised as features but really designed to dominate markets at its users’ expense that the “Apple is Evil” conversation can go on…

Jeff Yablon in Business Change and Business Process

Aug 24, 2011

TouchPad Proved iPad a Toy. Now Android Proves it for iPhone

When they killed the TouchPad, Hewlett Packard proved Apple’s iPad to be just a toy. Now a new study suggests that the iPhone is very much the same thing. In the world of SmartPhones, Android devices are tools, while iPhones…

Jeff Yablon in Business Change and Business Process

Aug 15, 2011

Android and the Brooklyn Bridge: Google Buys Motorola

What would you do if you had a spare $12.5 billion in cash lying around?

If you were Google and it was today, you’d buy Motorola — or at least the half of Motorola that was split off last year to be in the cell…

Jeff Yablon in Business Change and Business Process

Jun 17, 2011

(Don’t Do This) Starbucks On Android: The App That Takes

With apologies for its quality (remember, there’s no way to do a screen grab of an Android SmartPhone, so I needed to take a picture to show you this), look at this shot illustrating my SmartPhone’s battery usage during a short…

Jeff Yablon in Business Change and Business Process

Apr 7, 2011

Google To Reign In Android Fragmentation — Maybe

I’ve been an Android user since Verizon, Motorola, and Google got together and released the original Droid. While my SmartPhone has begun feeling slow and bloated as it’s aged and I’ve added app after app to my mobile arsenal of tools, I love my…

Jeff Yablon in Business Change and Business Process

Feb 24, 2011

Business Change, Fifteen Pennies At a Time [Square Deal]

I have this little device in my bag of tricks. It’s called a Square, both because that’s its shape and because Square is the name of the company that manufactures The Square.