by Jeff Yablon | Aug 24, 2011 | Business Process
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 are toys. I’m actually a little...
by Jeff Yablon | Aug 15, 2011 | Business Process
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 phone and SmartPhone business. If this wasn’t...
by Jeff Yablon | Jun 17, 2011 | Business Process, Customer Service
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 period yesterday. See that...
by Jeff Yablon | Apr 7, 2011 | Business Process
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...
by Jeff Yablon | Feb 24, 2011 | Business Process, Media
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. Oddly, although there’s no web site to be found at square.com, Square the...