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Xoom to the Moon – Motorola’s Super Bowl Spot

Reggie James — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 12:18:46 +0000

Motorola Xoom “Empower the People” Super Bowl 2011

As news of the new iPad heats up (iPad 2), Motorola has just released a beautiful and emotive advert that ran during last nights Super Bowl final and takes aim at Apple.
Using Google’s Android 3.0 Honeycomb for tablet software, this advert combined with some of the Xoom’s excellent features with sure have Apple’s creative team in a bit of a tizz. Nice play on the Orwellian 1984 / Apple Mac angle. Enjoy.

Sneak Preview of Google’s Android 3.0 Honeycomb

Reggie James — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 21:52:52 +0000

With all the buzz going round the market as to when Motorola will launch the new Motorola Xoom which will run Android 3.0 codenamed Honeycomb, one would be forgiven that the new Apple iPad 2 and BlackBerry Playbook had been superseded before they had even hit the street.

The interesting play between the new iPad, Playbook and Xoom is that they are all running different software, with the Xoom and Playbook running tablet specific software compared to the new iPad that will run Apple’s current OS, albeit with some enhancements.

With no launch date yet for the undoubted star of the recent CES Show in Las Vegas, the Motorola Xoom is creating the kind of noise that normally comes with the launch of a new Apple device that many say has taken the Cupertino, California company by surprise.

To add fuel onto the tablet fire, Google has an announced an event for February 2 to show off its Android 3.0 operating system to an expectant and demanding hoard of Android fans with a view to turning the iPad 2 & PlayBook enthusiast to the Google way of thinking.

Prior to the launch Google have released a video highlighting some of the features.

Can Blackberry 6 save RIM?

Reggie James — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:41:06 +0000

With the likes of iPhone and Google’s Android platform slowly entering the corporate market, it seems that Research in Motion (RIM), the Canadian company that owns the Blackberry device has one last shot at the corporate space when it releases version 6 of its operating system. The challenge for blackberry as recently highlighted by Reuters ‘Breaking Views’ and published in The New York Times, is that 80% of the Fortune 100 companies are testing or implementing iPhone. This could be a disaster for RIM who for as long as anyone can remember was the defacto weapon of choice for the corporate warrior.

So what’s changed?

How did these 2 operating systems creep into the business domain and start kicking at Blackberry’s heels. More importantly, why has Blackberry allowed this to happen when the demand for such devices are so high? Looking at the leaked promotional video, it seems that once again they have missed a trick using a generic and broad track by the Black Eyed Peas with a ‘too’ corporate feel to its visual. Make your own mind up but will British bank Standard Chartered recent announcement that it is migrating its workforce from BlackBerrys to iPhones be the beginning of an exodus?