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August 12th, 2010
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Android Tablet To Challenge iPad

Android Tablet to Challenge Apple iPad

The new rumors of an Android-based tablet from Motorola and Verizon have surfaced claiming the 10-inch device may be on store shelves by the fall. Motorola’s tablet would be a direct competitor to Apple’s iPad. But unlike Apple’s tablet, you would be able to watch television on the Motorola device thanks to integration with Verizon’s FIOS digital TV service, according to the Financial Times.

The Times doesn’t provide any detailed specs for the tablet, but does say it would support Flash video–another feature the iPad lacks. The 10-inch device would also have a rear-facing camera for taking snapshots and a front-facing camera for video conferencing. You would also be able to turn the tablet into a Wi-Fi hotspot, according to the Times, suggesting the device would likely have 3G connectivity provided by Verizon.
Reports have been circulating for some time that both Verizon and Motorola are planning Android-based tablets. In May, Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam told The Wall Street Journal the carrier is collaborating with Google to produce an Android tablet that will compete directly with the iPad. McAdam did not say anything about a partnership with Motorola during the interview.

The tablet market is considered the next battleground in the mobile devices war and it will be interesting to see what transpires in the coming months. One thing for sure, we find more uses on a daily basis for our iPads.

Garrett Fuselier
April 6th, 2010
by Garrett Fuselier
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Stop Hating! 5 Reasons why T2 ♥’s the iPad

Okay, so what’s with all of the frustration lately with the iPad? A lot of people seem to be dissing on it! I mean, come on, this was on the front of CNET yesterday!

I can see why people are apprehensive about new technology. It’s expensive. It’s potentially life-changing. It’s easy to drop and break. Oh, and it’s maybe even because they’re scared. That’s right…. they’re absolutely terrified that a device – something like the iPad – might actually change their life. And most of us don’t really love change.

Well, the iPad isn’t for everyone, that’s for sure.

But for those of you who, like us, are gadget geeks, technology nuts and early adopters, we’d rather talk less about why the iPad is so terrible for society and MORE about why it’s so freaking amazing! I’ll give you 5 things I’ve heard from iPad haters, and follow with my counter reaction.

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Michael Ong
February 10th, 2010
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Flash me; Flash me not

Flash me; Flash me not
In the blind spot of Google
I don’t want to be

– Michael Ong

Footnote: Lately, there has been much discussions about how to improve T2 and Back Alley Films’ ranking in search engine results. It seems like there’s a list of cardinal rules one should not break, if one wishes to enter the pearly gates of Google or Bing. And unlike the Ten Commandments which were engraved eternally onto a couple of stone tablets, the search engines algorithm changes constantly, making it even more difficult to be pious. Since T2 and Back Alley Films are in the production and post production business, we are a visual design and storytelling company. It only makes sense for us to go with a very visual rich and dynamic site, to showcase our commercial productions, motion graphics and experiential design works. And naturally chose to design our site in Flash.

Anyone who was geeky enough to watch the streaming keynote of Steve Jobs unveiling Apple’s much hyped iPad, probably heard the almost audible cyber-gasps when the “missing plugin icon” appeared on the NYTimes.com page — a sure sign of NO to Flash.

I dug a little deeper and found out that apparently Google and Apple engineers are both working on standardizing HTML5, which is supposedly the new and improved programming language that reduces the need for proprietary plugin-based rich internet applications. Of course, Adobe (the developer of Flash) is the biggest opponent to it. In this case, will Google’s little eight-legged freak, Googlebot, ever make an extra effort to be friendlier to Flash sites?

All the geek talk aside, T2 has a beautifully designed and dynamic site, which won us the very prestigious FWA Site-of-the -Day title (September 17, 2009), but our all-Flash site is not at all arachno-friendly. Does the importance of SEO force many sites to sacrifice the design and dynamic impact of the ones built in Flash? How do we balance between maintaining the dynamic visual impact, which is the core of our business, and achieving higher ranking?