As I See Tech

There are things that we wanted to do as quickly as possible motivated by some reasoning that may had been justifiable at that time as manageable risks, but are now turning out to be just plainly panic driven. I am guessing that's what happened with Motorola Xoom which is now garnering a lot of negative criticisms since launch that include Motorola's stupid act of promising 3G-to-4G upgrades without any clear plans; Motorola's obviously devious overpricing; and Motorola's questionable case on the use of an already registered brand/trademark.

BMW announces a sub-brand called " BMW i " on February 21, 2011. In the event , sketches of the i3 and i8 models were showcased, expected to be launched on 2013.

The smartphone has grown from a fully featured cellular phone to a mini-mobile computer with rich telecommunication features and functionalities practically sized to fit in a pocket. Nokia once touted their high-end devices as mobile computers. In a sense, they really are. More so today, only their difference in size separates smartphones from computers.

The Nokia+Microsoft deal is the biggest news of the year so far in the mobile industry before the much awaited Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on February 14-27, 2011. What's the significance of this deal? How important is it to Nokia? And to Microsoft?

The month of February starts with hot news about competing products and technologies. Hot enough to spark a couple of wars! It's Google vs. Microsoft Bing on a search war; and, it's Verizon vs. AT&T on the mobile network war (over Apple's iPhone).

There were news last year of exciting product releases and updates to expect on January 2011. February 2011 comes in and now it's time to check out who delivered and who didn't...