It has taken me almost six months since I started working on my first ever book, Broadbandits: Inside the $750 billion Heist, but it is finally done. I shipped back the edits last night to the publishers, John Wiley & Company. I am waiting for the … Read More »
Archive for February 2003
“She’s a porn star, he’s a sex swami who wants to be John Travolta in “Grease” in this delightful screwball comedy,” writes Charles Taylor in Salon Magazine, in the process becoming one of the few critics who love this movie. “The … Read More »
From News.com, in case anyone missed it: ‘TiVo has stepped up its efforts to license its technology in recent months. Sony and Toshiba have both licensed TiVo’s technology. However, Sony’s agreement has resulted in a DVR only in Japan–called MyCast–and Toshiba’s arrangement is only aimed … Read More »
This just in via a PR source: Ron Rivest, an MIT professor and the Âï”R” in RSA Security, has started a new company called Peppercoin. His co-founder in this new venture is Silvio Micali. Rivest and Silvio Micali are the co-founders of the Cryptography and … Read More »
A report by Tim Long, analyst at Credit Suisse First Boston crossed my desk this morning. It was somewhat of a bleak take on the wireless handset business in 2003. He fears a lot more competition for the M.E.N (Motorola, ; and Nokia.) The competition … Read More »
in case you are interested, today is the day Bill Gates got creamed i.e. hit on the face by a cream pie. For further details and/or instant recall visit CNET Read More »
About three months ago when I started to look into the whole television/PVR model, it became obvious that consumers love the technology but the pioneers were on a losing streak. TiVo/Replay are fine devices – but the companies are in poor shape. The barrage of email … Read More »
I am surprised how much INK TiVo is getting these days, especially if your consider that this is a company which is skating on financial thin ice. What could be the explanation? I think a lot of journos got TiVO as a gift this Christmas! Think … Read More »
Red Herring :: .Six years after pioneering the concept of personal video recording–a way to record television shows on a hard drive, skip commercials, and even pause live TV–the industry’s founding fathers are facing a unique problem: ubiquity. We’re not talking about the good kind … Read More »
In case any on of you missed this, here is my column from September 2002,Cults, hot dogs, and billionaire bridge. Read More »
