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Will all intelligent life stop and pause tomorrow for an hour and focus on a stage at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts? Could happen! This is when Apple will announce its newest slew of products, including its much anticipated tablet, which has been hyped for months.
The event is set for 10 a.m. Pacific/1 [...]

If you remember any movie about robots, new versions always come with new features, leaving older ones metaphorically “in the dust.” While I kept thinking of Nexus hair products today (there’s a hair stylist in my family), the Nexus One was really the android model played by Sean Young in the movie Blade Runner (and [...]

I will be taking some time off from posting on NewDigitalCafé during the holidays.
Wishing everyone the best this holiday season, and good health and good fortune in the New Year!
- Randy

I’m following up on post by Liz Gannes over at GigaOM, where it was reported that OneAppAtATime, a new startup led by Evan “Rabble” Henshaw-Plath has announced it will enable developers to convert their Flash-based games into full-fledged iPhone apps.
According to OneAppAtATime “part of the service we provide is expertise in navigating the Apple App [...]

I just submitted my predictions to Harry McCracken who runs Technologizer and is rounding up the 2010 predictions from the community. One selected lucky winner this year will receive an Olive Digital Music Server.
So without further delay, I present here my predictions for Technologizer’s contest. Mind you, these don’t represent all of the predictions I’m [...]

I had a chance to join a call with Henry Tirri, SVP of Nokia’s Research Center (NRC) to get an overview of the NRC’s strategy and focus.
Nokia operates 10 research centers worldwide, and Henry oversees them centrally from the center in Palo Alto, California. Previously, the research centers were islands of research being done in [...]

Fremium is becoming an increasingly adopted business model today as it’s becoming popular to give things away for free as a marketing strategy to gain new customers. The strategy of free is not new. Companies have been giving free things away for years from free online newsletters to free samples at grocery stores and to [...]

Just when you thought it was safe to shop the day after Thanksgiving, known as Black Friday, Adbusters.org is promoting “Buy Nothing Day.” Calling it a 24-hour moratorium on consumer spending on November 27th in the US and November 28th in Europe and elsewhere, they are asking tens of millions of people around the world to [...]

OK, as goes TechCrunch, so goes VentureBeat!
All is lost!