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… all those wonderful folks who write freeware and open source software to make our computing lives better. After all where will we be without Firefox, or kHTML or WordPress or countless other little things which we cannot live without. This one from the archives, sums up my thanks. Continue »

This is just too funny! Continue »

First a Black IPod, and now a black XDA IIi - looks like black is the new black! Continue »

David Kirkpatrick, asks the question in Fortune. I wonder if his musing is coming 12 months too late? And shouldn’t it be: is the PC era finally over? Continue »

There’s an old joke that says just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t out to get you. Sadly, that sentiment is probably a pretty accurate summary of the mood at PalmSource these days. After first losing Sony as a major licensee, now PalmSource could be facing the departure of its single-biggest licensee, PalmOne. Continue »

Business 2.0: Mayfield recently put $4.5 million into AudioFeast, which is using the cash infusion to market its subscription service to the world. The two-year-old startup offers 400 commercial-free radio programs ranging from music to NPR, the Wall Street Journal, and sports-talk radio for $6 to $8 per month. You download the programs you want and then either listen to them on your computer or sync them to your AudioFeast-compatible MP3 player. It’s like satellite radio, without the satellites. Continue »

Sin City is better, according to eBay founder Pierre Omidyar who tells Business Week that in Silicon Valley, “the public servants can’t live in the communities they serve there because it’s too expensive. It didn’t feel like a healthy dynamic. Paul K thinks this is some sort of a statement — apparently even Las Vegas seems sane and mature by comparison. My story talks more at length about leaving SV. Continue »

Can you believe it that it has already been a year since FCC put the Wireless Local Number Portability into effect? We have seen one big merger, increased market share for Verizon and T-Mobile and relatively little or no effect on Nextel. According to FCC data released today, since November 24, 2003, more than 8.5 million consumers have taken advantage of wireless LNP. CTIA says that more than 500,000 wireline customers chose to go mobile and switched from wireline service to wireless service while keeping their old numbers. Just under 10 percent of those consumers “cut the cord” and moved a landline number to a wireless phone. In the short period since the introduction of wireless LNP, consumers have ported more than twice as many numbers among wireless carriers as consumers did among landline carriers in the first year that landline LNP was available. Continue »