TechPaladin Printing

Archive for the ‘Portable computing’ Category

On freedom and the app store

One thing that’s really bugging me is how often tech pundits and blogs are misusing the word freedom in these Apple-Adobe-Google debates that have gripped the blogosphere. I see a lot of charges that Apple is destroying freedom with their restrictive app store policies. There’s a big hangup people have over the word freedom. In [...]

The iPad

Yes, it’s finally released! There’s not much I’m going to say because I’ve been working on its guts for months now, and it’s unlikely you don’t already have an opinion one way or another. Either way, go check it out! Admit, it, you want one. I know you do.

Only if they’re under state control, you see

Doug McCaughan at KnoxNews makes the great point that for years, schools have been trying to get more computers into classrooms, only to now stigmatize and ban them when students bring their own in the form of cell phones and smartphones. To a certain extent, I suspect good old-fashioned technophobia, but I think there’s also [...]