Have you heard about the newly announced computers with the mysterious and non-alluring CULV acronym yet? If you haven’t, get ready for a big dose of them, because they’re about to pop out of the woodwork. They’re exciting! They’re stupendous! That’s what Intel would have you… Read More »
Bio:Kevin has 15 years of hands-on I.T. experience at Fortune 100 companies and 5 years of writing, blogging and podcasting behind him. In 2005, he built a team of bloggers for AOL to cover the growing HDTV space — the small startup site eventually became the popular destination of EngadgetHD. Returning to his passion of mobile technology, Kevin joined jkOnTheRun in 2006, where he has blogged extensively about netbooks, notebooks, smartphones, cloud services and Ultra Mobile PCs.
Outside of the web world, Kevin’s print writing has appeared in The New York Times, Smartphone & Pocket PC Magazine, PC Magazine and PC World. Additionally, he has appeared on NBC news in Philadelphia to talk tech. Kevin also co-hosts and produces the MobileTechRoundup podcast, which has run weekly since November of 2005.
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My Focus
Mobile technology
Netbooks
Smartphones
Recent Posts
Last year was arguably “The Year of the Netbook.” Unfortunately for AMD and NVIDIA, they were left on the sidelines as the netbook market picked up steam in 2008. The vast majority of these devices run on Intel’s Atom chip using the company’s integrated GMA 950… Read More »
In this anemic economy, selling tens of millions of any new product is a rare bright spot. But that’s exactly what’s happened in the case of netbooks, those small, light and relatively inexpensive notebook computers. Intel benefits greatly from this market, as its Atom line of… Read More »
AdAge recently noted that if Palm wasn’t careful, its new Pre handset ran the danger of bumping up against the next model(s) of Apple’s iPhone. While we don’t know for sure when an iPhone refresh is coming, it’s a safe bet that all will be revealed… Read More »
AdMob shares its monthly smartphone data today, and the numbers provide some deeper insight into trends we’ve seen recently. I was sure that the Android Marketplace’s relatively slow pace would weigh down the growth rate of T-Mobile’s G1, but as they say: the numbers don’t lie.… Read More »
ZumoDrive’s cloud storage offering, a hybrid backup/sync product, moves into public beta today. I took at look at it not too long ago, when it was in a private beta, and concluded that with so many cloud services puffing up on the horizon, I liked… Read More »
Amazon unleashed its second-generation Kindle device as expected today, and it doesn’t fail to please in the looks and specs department. There’s seven times more memory, advanced eInk capabilities for 16-color grayscale and faster page refreshing, plus an updated design that addresses some of the original… Read More »
5 Resources for Netbook Helps, Hacks and How-To’s
Apple’s iPhone may enjoy a cult-like following with blogs, forums and commenters galore, but it’s not the only product to enjoy such adulation. Another highly successful product of the past year, the lowly netbook, has its share of support groups, blogs and fans as well. Below… Read More »
A GigaOM Podcast: the First of Many?
A new year brings new opportunities and new beginnings. For nearly a year we have focused exclusively on blogging (though on occasion we have interspersed it with video), we have not really explored podcasts. Thanks to our gentle persuasion, Om will participate in a podcast where we will… Read More »
A Netbook With Android: Far-Fetched or Coming Soon?
With 2008 coming to a close and CES just around the corner, I’m thinking about what 2009 will bring us. One idea, which at first may sound far-fetched, gets easier to believe if one considers two of the hottest trends right now: netbooks and Android. Could… Read More »
