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PanderDaily is funded by the very VCs whose startups it aims to cover. What could possibly go wrong?

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Here’s my new business plan: I will get Google, Samsung, HTC and Motorola to fund my Android blog. I know it seems like a glaring conflict of interest, but is it really? I mean, really? Okay, it really is a conflict of interest. It really, really is. It’s disgusting, actually. But you know what? It [...]

The guy who is complaining about Google “Search plus Your World” also once complained about Caller ID being a massive invasion of privacy

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Much is being made of the fact that the Electronic Privacy Information Center has called upon the FTC to investigate Google for tying its Google+ social network to its search results. Some of the more excitable members of the hackery seem to have leapt to the conclusion that if EPIC writes a letter then inevitably [...]

My Galaxy Nexus just arrived, and I can’t tell it apart from my iPhone 4S

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Seriously, this is outrageous. I ordered a Galaxy Nexus on Verizon and it just arrived today. Here’s a photo of the box next to the box for the iPhone 4S that I got a couple months ago. Can you tell which one is which? I know I can’t. (I’ll just tell you. It’s the one [...]

Is Google trying to leverage its way into Facebook’s data?

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It’s a theory anyway, laid out in an article I just did about Google’s “Search plus Your World” on The Daily Beast.

Further evidence that the rise of Android is driving Apple fans out of their minds

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Check out the video below or view it on flickr. It’s from CES in Las Vegas. A guy from Samsung is showing off a window display that turns a glass window into a computer display. With the touch of a finger you can flip the “blinds” open and shut, change the color of the blinds, [...]

Samsung crushing it at CES

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Business Insider: “Samsung is Already the Big Winner at CES.” Business Insider: “Wow, Samsung Beat Apple to a Voice-Controlled TV.” TechCrunch: “Why Samsung is the new Apple.” Funny, because supposedly Apple was going to “win” CES without even attending.

“I compare it to someone unleashing the contents of 20 prisons, a dozen mental institutions and a NAMBLA convention into a 1000-yard radius.”

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That’s a friend, who is on his way to CES, describing the show. Sounds about the same as my experience, which is why I stopped going a few years ago. It’s too crowded, you can’t get anywhere, you spend all your time schlepping around, wandering through halls gazing up at flat-panel TVs or standing in [...]

More thoughts on Samsung

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Someone on Google+ responded to my post, “Enough with the Samsung bashing,” by saying that I have no idea what goes on inside Samsung and therefore I should not assume that they’re not a bunch of thieving cloners. A few thoughts on this. You’re right, I have no idea what goes on inside Samsung. Neither [...]

Apple’s new TV isn’t even out yet and Lenovo has already copied it. Amazing.

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Lenovo is showing off a 55-inch TV that runs Ice Cream Sandwich. Somehow they managed to time travel into the future, get hold of Apple’s TVs, copy it, and travel back in time to put out their clone. Look at the music icon in the bottom row. Looks exactly like the iTunes logo. They even [...]

Enough with the Samsung bashing

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Samsung Electronics did about $140 billion in revenue in 2011. They’re the biggest tech company in the world by revenue. They make everything from cameras to telecom gear to TVs. They are also the second-biggest semiconductor company in the world and even make the microprocessors for Apple’s iPhone and iPad. Samsung has 160,000 employees, and [...]