Stories by Mel Beckman

The iPad data dilemma: Where cloud storage can help

Tablet computing is a decade-old technology, but one that lay buried since users rejected Microsoft's "heavy OS" approach a while back. A year ago, Apple's iPad resurrected the tablet computing concept, delivering a lightweight sheet of computational glass with a pleasant, responsive user interface and a blizzard of applications. Users love it, and now a barrage of wannabe tablets are flooding the marketplace. All do reasonably well at the four applications users access most: Web, email, books, and media. And the half million or so apps in the collective app stores of Apple, Android, and BlackBerry would seem to fill every conceivable mobile need.

By Mel Beckman | 22 February, 2011 22:10

Tags: Apple, cloud computing, cloud storage, consumer electronics, Handhelds / PDAs, internet, iPad, mobile technology, Mobilize, storage, tablets

Jailbreaking in the iPhone 3.0 era

In a few short years, Apple has established the iPhone as the mobile platform to beat. Each successive firmware update opens new, and often unmatched, features for users and developers to explore. Many of these features, however, find their roots outside Apple's walled-garden approach to the iPhone, as the jailbreak community proves time and again to be an innovative environment for off-limits apps that demonstrate new ways to push the iPhone platform forward.

By Mel Beckman | 02 March, 2010 03:24

Tags: iPhone, iphone 3.0, jailbreaking

Building the Google smartbook dream machine

The netbook promises convenience and capability in a small, lightweight, and generally inexpensive package, and the concept of a smartbook goes even further: a handy-dandy combination of smartphone and notebook. Alas, most netbook offerings come burdened with a full-blown Windows operating system, which runs slowly on performance-limited netbook hardware and saps battery life. And Windows is not exactly smartphone-oriented.

By Mel Beckman | 07 December, 2009 22:15

Tags: Google Android, Google Chrome, laptops, mobile computing, netbooks

iPhone jailbreaking still going strong

Despite Apple's formal opposition and upcoming 3.0 firmware, users still seek jailbroken iPhone advantages -- and developers deliver

By Mel Beckman | 13 April, 2009 23:56

Tags: iPhone, iphone apps, smartphones

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