The Google vs. Microsoft war received far more attention in 2009 (Google Web Search vs. Bing, Chrome Browser vs. Internet Explorer and Chrome OS vs. Windows) but Google is also waging a significant war with Apple. This will be the story of 2010.
![Sony XPERIA X10 meets Google Visual Search [VIDEO]](http://tbottle.com/tb/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/se-xperia-x10-1-e1262134849721.jpg)
The Sony XPERIA X10 will definitely put Sony on the map for high-end mobile phones. Google Visual Search, which runs on all Android phones, will help Google to rule the digital world.
Dec 272009
![MIT Media Lab's "SixthSense" Project [VIDEO]](http://tbottle.com/tb/wp-content/uploads/thumb-cache/sixthsense-bef9026531fae61e528bcc7c3d9394f9-200x33-6-nocrop.png)
“SixthSense” is a wearable gestural interface that augments the physical world around us with digital information and lets us use natural hand gestures to interact with that information.
![Augmented Reality Baseball Cards by TOPPS [VIDEO]](http://tbottle.com/tb/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/topps_logo.gif){kind=logo}
Below is a video of TOPPS 3D Live baseball cards, the first to include augmented reality. These are truly amazing!
Unless you were born yesterday (which would really suck because of its proximity to Christmas), you already know that Google is fundamentally an advertising company. Google’s success, however, depends on it not remaining simply an advertising company.
![Upcoming Blackberry Slider to look like Palm Pre [rumor]](http://tbottle.com/tb/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/BlackberryWallpaper.jpg)
Alejandro Salomon, a/k/a Salomondrin, is reporting that the upcoming Blackberry slider phone will be designed as a portrait slider, similar to the Palm Pre, not a landscape slider like the Droid. This is contrary to earlier rumors.
Seiko has re-released its famous talking pyramid clock. Rest assured, there are some improvements to the talking pyramid clock (which apparently have been in development the past 25 years)…
RIM is blaming the second major Blackberry data outage in five days on recent updates to the Blackberry Messenger 5.0 app. Many customers received e-mails today that encourage them to download a fix: “please upgrade to version 5.0.0.57 as soon as possible.” To download the latest version, visit http://www.blackberry.com/blackberrymessenger.
[Considering I started a Facebook fan page today for Tech Bottle, I thought it appropriate to write something about Facebook. It's been awhile.] Don’t let the name mislead you, TweetDeck is a terrific program for Facebook. It is written in Adobe Air so it installs on PC Windows, Macs and even Linux. Here’s how it [Read More...]
![Ford's SYNC to enable Wifi hot spots on the road [VIDEO]](http://tbottle.com/tb/wp-content/uploads/thumb-cache/ford-sync-logo-4b5cc7cc8f928c3dffc07bb96a74273a-200x54-75-nocrop.jpg){kind=logo}
Alan Mulally, Ford CEO, is the opening speaker at the CES 2010 which will be held in Las Vegas on January 7th. He is expected to discuss upcoming SYNC features that will be included in Ford/Microsoft joint venture. One of the upcoming features was revealed this week — mobile Wifi.
Recognizing that Facebook has a significantly greater user-base than Twitter (Zynga’s FarmVille alone has more users than Twitter, reportedly), we have added a Facebook fan page. Please consider becoming a fan of Tech Bottle on Facebook. We also will continue to push our content to @techbottle on Twitter. All of the methods of following Tech [Read More...]
Dec 222009
One of the big stories this week is that Twitter will turn a net profit this year simply due to its content sales to Google and Bing, according to Bloomberg. For a cool $25 million, Google and Bing are indexing every public tweet. Twitter’s operating expenses for 2009 will be approximately $20 million. Accordingly, Twitter [Read More...]
Nielsen released its annual mobile phone data and the results are charted below: Notably, the top two spots are held by smartphones and the third spot is held by the Motorola RAZR series, perhaps one of the “dumber” non-smartphones. Overall, I am impressed with how well LG fared, driven in large part by Verizon promoting [Read More...]
RSS is the most efficient way to aggregate your favorite newspapers and blogs and read them without bookmarking, page loading and clicking. I wrote a more detailed description of RSS about one month ago that includes some tips on setting up RSS on a computer. Recently, some of the Crackberry guys started a campaign to [Read More...]
Google Wave was a novelty this year–perhaps the pet rock of 2009. It seems like everyone wanted an invitation to preview Google Wave but few actually waved. Maybe there’s a clandestine group of hard core wavers. In any event, the wave shows significant potential and a few videos have surfaced that demonstrate the full capabilities [Read More...]
