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by Phil Nickinson
May 19, 2013
Three days just isn't enough to absorb all the info from Google I/O. In fact, it's physically impossible to get to every session, be it due to overlaps, overcrowding (only so many seats) or ...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 12, 2013
We'll keep things short this week as it's Mother's Day (call your mom already, will ya?!?!) and it's a travel weekend. We've got not one but two developer events to both cover an...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 05, 2013
We've reached another Sunday. The beginning of a new week, or maybe the end of the last one, depending on how you roll. We've got a ton of phones on our desks, so many words to be written, a...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 28, 2013
I'd say this behind-the-scenes picture just about sums up our week in New York City. Take a bunch of characters from Mobile Nations, toss them into a room with John P and Cali Lewis of GeekBeat....
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 07, 2013
I still don't know what to think about Facebook. I should probably have a better answer than that. After all, we're supposed to go to an event for a couple hours, play with some new stuff --...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 31, 2013
So we'll be at Facebook HQ on Thursday morning to find out about its "New home in Mobile." I've seen countless headlines (mostly rewrites of what probably are controlled leaks) ful...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 24, 2013
We've reached one of those crossroads in which we've got all sorts of things to talk about, but not a whole lot to show for it, and it's as frustrating for us as as writers as it is for ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 17, 2013
The recurring theme running through my head the past few days is, obviously, the headline for this column. Timing is everything. OK, maybe not everything in the mobile business -- hardware and softw...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 10, 2013
The thing about trade shows is that you know there's a pretty good chance you're going to come down with something afterward. Between the travel and being crammed into a venue with 50,000 or...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 24, 2013
We're back, once again, for Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. This is my fourth year here. And like previous years, this one appears poised to present its own challenges as well as oppo...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 17, 2013
Flights are booked, bags are packed and passports are in hand. February inevitably becomes one wild tech ride, and 2013's not disappointing. Consider:
Feb. 19: HTC events in New York and...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 10, 2013
So Mobile Nations Fitness Month is in full swing, for better or worse. Better, because some of us need any help we can get to get off our asses and exercise, even just a little. Worse, because often...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 03, 2013
As is so often the case in life, the little things can make a big difference. I was worried that our little Valentines Day contest -- we're giving away a pair of Nexus 7s and Nexus 4s -- would c...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 27, 2013
Instead of using this sentence to write a proper lede, quite possibly with (or without) a bit of wit, can we agree to stipulate that there are what I believe to be a few decent thoughts on the ot...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 20, 2013
I have absolutely no idea how it happened, but January is quickly coming to close. And that means February -- and Mobile Nations Fitness Month -- is nearly upon us. Last year was a dismal failure. O...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 12, 2013
That's it. Same old picture from Building 44 in Mountain View. No cool picture of yours truly on the Las Vegas strip. No shot from the CES floor, or with a stack full of chips. Just the same ol&...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 30, 2012
As we close out the year, it's time to take a look back at things. I've never been all that keen on "year's best" lists for applications, though that doesn't mean they don&...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 24, 2012
Ah, Christmas Eve. The day we remind our kids that they still have to be good for at least one more day, and remind ourselves that a little extra patience probably wouldn't hurt anyone. Easier s...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 15, 2012
I don't much feel like writing about phones this weekend. Instead, I'll paraphrase a Facebook post from an old friend of mine from high school who leads a congregation in Nebraska:
It...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 09, 2012
With the year winding down and my plate relatively clear of any review work (mad props to Alex and Anndrew and Andrew and Jerry and everyone else for helping make that happen), I've been spendin...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 02, 2012
Good lord, it's December already. How did that happen? That means we've got about a month before CES in Las Vegas. For you new folks, CES is the first major event of the year, though it'...
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 25, 2012
There's a reason why I tend to post stories on Google+ about the traditional journalism industry. For one, it's where I came from. There are days I miss it. But there are so many more days t...
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 18, 2012
We're inundated with a couple really new phones -- namely the Nexus 4 and the Droid DNA -- and that means it's a working weekend ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday here in the U.S. It's a...
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 11, 2012
Do these guys know how to party on a Saturday night/Sunday morning, or what?
As California was just getting ready to go out for the night, and Taiwan was just starting its morning, a joint press re...
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 04, 2012
"What's it going to be like?" That was the question my wife posed to me sometime around Sept. 13 or 14 in 2004, just a couple days before Hurricane Ivan thrashed this part of the Gulf ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Oct 28, 2012
Ladies and gentlemen, Microsoft is back.
I wasn't sure we'd ever have reason to write those words again, and Microsoft's not yet all the way back. But it's absolutely taking the rig...
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by Phil Nickinson
Oct 21, 2012
We're in the tall grass now, boys and girls. We're at that point in the year when Google's got a new Nexus coming down the pike, and the smartphone nerds are getting that annual tingling...
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by Phil Nickinson
Oct 14, 2012
We've got another fall CTIA event in the books. By most accounts, this one was pretty much a snoozer, even more so than the other "apps and enterprise"-focused events of the past. Hope...
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by Phil Nickinson
Oct 07, 2012
We're headed to sunny San Diego this week -- one of my new favorite cities -- for the fall CTIA event. The past several years it's been called CTIA "Enterprise and Applications," w...
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by Phil Nickinson
Sep 30, 2012
Ahhhhhh, fall. The temperatures finally are starting to drop. Football is in full swing. And the Android crazies are out in force.
It's kind of a weird time for product cycles, right? Most...
