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With the dot-com bubble a distant memory, recession-ravaged Silicon Valley insiders are wondering aloud about the next big thing. They haplessly sift the sands of social networks and they chase the chimera of wireless networks, but they ignore technology’s biggest opportunity that is staring them in the face.
It is what I call a Massputer a [...]

This comes from a reader: Yesterday Yahoo announced it would begin offering 100 megabytes of storage to its non-paying e-mail subscribers in a direct attack on Google’s fledgeling Gmail service which promises 1 gigabyte. Currently Yahoo e-mail only stores 4 megabytes for non-paying customers. This could make Yahoo e-mail (questionably?) more attractive than Gmail, as [...]

Last night I attended the Blogger relaunch party at SF’ 26Mix. It was a pretty cool bash - and I mean the food, the music and the locale were pretty trendy. What struck me was the names and faces from the past, those who had become party regulars were all in full force. Jay Shellen, [...]

Voom, Cablevision’s HDTV satellite TV venture despite cool branding is having some image problems. NY Newsday reports that “.. launched its Voom nationwide satellite TV service in October, one in five customers who tried it have dropped it.” The problems might escalate as the company switches to a bigger dish. The news comes courtesy of [...]

“Clearly, something fundamental has changed over the last three months. CEOS seem to have “taken their foot off the [spending] brake. It’s a pleasure for networking to be back,” said John Chambers during his keynote speech at NetWorld+Interop show in Las Vegas. Rest of the 59 minutes he spent touting Cisco. Hey what, we are [...]

Wall Street Journal reports on Intel’s changing chip strategy, but does not question the fact, that it will be for sometime there will be no new product. Paul Otellini, the heir apparent talks a good game, but does not address the basic question: where is the paranoia?