A lot of folks have been disheartened by the iPad, calling it little more than an oversized iPod Touch. And sure, it’s fair to make that comparison. Both devices use iPhone OS, and both devices share a large amount of functionality, as well as expansion protocols wrought by Apple’s proprietary Application Store. However, it’s important to remember that iPhone OS is still simply an embedded version of OS X, and as such it can handle a lot of what developers throw at it. Obviously nobody is going to be running Xcode or Maya on an iPad anytime soon, but for the traveling professional, this device may just be what we’re looking for.
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I was pretty on the fence about Apple’s iPhone, when it was first announced. Truth be told I was pretty on the fence about smartphones in general. I had an iPod, I had a PDA, I had a cell phone. I liked using all of those devices, but thought that convergence was going to be a problem – why would I listen to music all day and then prevent myself from making phone calls?
On Tuesday, President Obama announced that “we’re proposing a complete elimination of capital gains taxes on small business investment.” The very next day, the Democratically-controlled House voted to more than double that tax rate. Oops.
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Just a quick plug. This month we kicked off BrillEx.com, a new blog and Internet community network focusing on topics of focused interest. Currently there’re a couple of blogs going, one for video games and one for sports. Pop culture/entertainment and men’s entertainment blogs will be launching late this year and early 2010, and from there, we’ll be tracking user interest to see what else we should be covering.
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On Tuesday, President Obama announced that “we’re proposing a complete elimination of capital gains taxes on small business investment.” The very next day, the Democratically-controlled House voted to more than double that tax rate. Oops.
With the iPhone whipping gamers and developers alike into a frenzy, I thought I’d take a moment to talk about the games I’ve been playing.
Konami recently announced that they would no longer be publishing the controversial shooter.
Its developers are looking for a new publisher to help them finish it out.
The revolution is here, and it is in people’s living rooms. Of course I’m not speaking of a Marxist holiday, I’m referring to the development codename for the hottest gift item over the last two years, that we know as the Wii.
