A hyper-hectic visit to New York, coupled with news breaking thick and fast, I almost forgot to blog about my recent book review of Invisible Engines by David S. Evans, Andrei Hagiu and Richard Schmalensee for the Wall Street Journal. The book looks at… Read More »
Archive for November 2006
These days, everyone seems to have an opinion on what Apple’s going to do next. It’s not surprising to see analysts base their prediction for Apple stock entirely on an upcoming product. Doing that is fine for, say, Intel, because their roadmap is available for public… Read More »
Vinod Khosla, who recently set up his own venture firm, Khosla Ventures, has invested $6.2 million in iSkoot, the Cambridge, MA-based Skype-to-mobile extender service, according to PE Hub. Khosla has become quite active lately and has invested in companies like Slide and… Read More »
I’m getting more and more impressed with the Fujitsu P1610 each day. Tonight I took the opportunity to play around with the speech recognition using just the one external microphone on the… Read More »
First it was Ciena, and now Nortel is doing a reverse split, hoping to add some respectability to their stock price. The beleaguered telecom equipment maker which has been constantly resetting itself since the telecom bust, is going for 1-for-10 reverse split. The current share… Read More »
If you believe that you have the most hip or most eclectic collection of music on the planet, then what better way to showcase your musical preferences than to let people scroll through your iTunes library through the Web, browse your playlists, or even see what… Read More »
There’s yet another report on location-based services from the offices of ABI research this week, stating that 20 million cell phone subscribers in North America will be using “personal locator services” in 2011 — that’s up from 500,000 this year, they say. Whoah, that’s a pretty… Read More »
Text editors are great if for no other reason than that you can execute a search and replace function. This little tool has saved me countless hours of tedious, mind-numbing text replacement exercises. But what happens when you need to alter several items outside… Read More »
In the comments of ‘Banking on Apple‘ the discussion of Apple Hardware becoming more standard across the desks at large companies seemed to take a front seat. It’s an interesting topic that ultimately sprang – in this forum – from a not-fully-explained comment of… Read More »
A couple days ago I began to write about this post by Zeldman. But then I saw it referenced in another place or two, and thought it not significant enough to devote my time to when a couple others already had. But this… Read More »
Skype, a leading VoIP services provider and a division of eBay, went through a major reorganization this morning, which included axing of the entire business development part of the company, barring a handful of country heads. Our sources say the a meeting was organized earlier today and… Read More »
They say everything comes full circle. Take these Vinyl CD-R discs from Verbatim: we’ve moved away from vinyl albums in favor of 8-tracks (well, they don’t really count, do they?), to… Read More »
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