April 26, 2007 — Tech News and Analysis

Archive for April 26, 2007

Apple’s Q2 Results: “Surprised & Delighted”

To use CFO Peter Oppenheimer’s own words, any stockholder of Apple should be “surprised and delighted” at its Q2 results. Without going into numbers… Apple made a ton of money, and did even better than they expected themselves. After listening to the Q2 Results Call … Read More »

Hollywood has been forced into a prisoner’s dilemma by new technology, where the industry seems convinced that its self interest and that of the audience are at odds. In fact, if they could trust each other (see below), they might both get what they … Read More »

 
 

Kutaragi to Step Down From Sony

In an announcement that shouldn’t surprise regular GigaOM readers in the slightest (warning signs emerged as far back as last February, and reached crescendo pitch in November and December), Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. just announced that CEO Ken Kutaragi, the … Read More »

Lunch with Carson Daly

Down at the EconSM conference in Beverly Hills, we had the unique experience of having lunch with Carson Daly, currently the host of Last Call with Carson Daly on NBC. Prior to lunch, Daly had sat on a panel about social media and Hollywood, where … Read More »

$100 Laptop, more like $175

Hundred dollar laptop backer Nicholas Negroponte says the laptops will actually cost $175 and will have an options for running Windows. The realities of manufacturing and designing mass market products has set in, but the result is still pretty good, don’t you think? I saw … Read More »

Vonage weighs down all VoIP Service Cos

April showers, they say, bring May flowers. But if you are an independent voice service provider, like Vonage and SunRocket, then in April, you were showered with just bad news, and May is more like Dis-May. Ever since the Vonage-Verizon patent fracas became a street fight, … Read More »

Symantec looking for Entourage dev shops

A Product Manager at Symantec Corporation posted a query Wednesday on the Entourage mailing list. I was curious if anyone knew the names of a few dev shops that focus on creating custom extensions for Entourage. Although the mailing list is unofficial, and not run by Microsoft, … Read More »

The touch interface is clearly gaining momentum: we’ve got touch-enabled Tablet PCs, UMPCs, PDAs, smartphones and other small handhelds. Palm rejection is a staple in the latest Fujitsu P1610 devices … Read More »

Web-Based Task Management in Your Own Space

There are lots and lots of good reasons to use pen & paper to keep track of lists and tasks. Not for me. I had surgery on my dominant wrist in 1989, and as a result my handwriting looks like scribbles after just a … Read More »

I remember last summer when EverNote announced that their software would be pre-loaded on Lexar USB drives; if you want to add a portable version of this popular application to a … Read More »

Last week I met Yuri Baranovsky, the co-writer, director, and star of an internet sitcom called Break a Leg. The show, a dead-pan comedy featuring warring guilds, a meta-TV show, and a bunch of goofballs, is a poor man’s Arrested Development, and I say that … Read More »

I haven’t seen an official announcement but GigaOm points out Grand Central’s new mobile support. By ‘mobile support’ I don’t mean support for routing calls to your mobile phone; you could … Read More »

More Must Reads

It’s funny, usually the press materials at conferences are full of easily ignored sponsor pages and a real waste of trees. But the handouts at the DowJones VentureWire “Wireless Innovations Conference” had some juicy listings, parsing out the 60 participating startups by “financing plans,” “amount raised,” … Read More »

Kevin and I are very happy to announce our 6 millionth page view was served up this week, making jkOnTheRun one of the biggest (and best, but that’s just our opinion) mobile technology blogs on the Internets.  In celebration of this momentous event, we are kicking … Read More »

With all the how-will-they-make-money questions surrounding the online video sharing site businesses, there is a bit of good news from the infrastructure end: New and cheaper ways of streaming video are arriving on the scene, which may help trim the bandwidth costs for all the YouTube … Read More »

Online storage options for Windows XP users are dime a dozen. Many of the popular ones don’t love the MAC as much. However, today Mozy launched the mac version of its product which according to Web Worker Daily is pretty good, and can compete … Read More »

When do you know it is time to whack an idea that is not working? Entrepreneur’s Dilemma! My latest on Found+READ Read More »

While I’m still very content with my ThinkOutside Bluetooth keyboard for my mobile office, some fashionistas might desire something even bluer. Is this wireless, roll-able keyboard from Brando blue enough? For $29, … Read More »

Are you backing up your desktop data regularly? It’s one of those important but not urgent tasks that many web workers postpone. Fortunately, a variety of solutions ranging from remote to local to hybrid make it easier than ever to backup your files. Backup provider Mozy … Read More »

You can tell Steve spent a fair amount of time on this: he’s put together a UMPC Buyers Guide for 2007 that’s filled with information, good questions to ask yourself … Read More »

We thought Qualcomm might be finally embracing WiMAX, given its recent purchase of TeleCIS’ mobile WiMAX assets. Not so much. Len Lauer, Qualcomm’s Executive Vice President and Group president, gave WiMAX the smackdown at the Wireless Innovations conference on Wednesday. Lauer said WiMAX is more … Read More »

Thanks to a Technorati RSS feed, I caught this post from Fanatical (Fanatic-Al) that shows off some cutting-edge mobile tech….from 1994! Pictured above is a small, 386-based Toshiba … Read More »

The contest to win a free license of Snapter was a very successful one and we are happy to announce the 4 winners of a full license of the digital camera scanning software.  Here are the winners who need to email me and provide the … Read More »

The hype machine is in full swing if the recent interest in new media by big business is any indication. At the Milken Institute conference Wednesday, Forbes managing editor Dennis Kneale moderated a discussion with News Corp. COO Peter Chernin, former AOL CEO Jonathan Miller, … Read More »

Slow down. You’re talking too fast for your videoconferencing tools to keep up. Meeting quality when you fire up your webcam to talk to your colleagues is getting better by the minute, but the network is not quite up to shoving all those bits around in … Read More »

The Sopranos are the sole reason I have hung on to my Comcast cable television account. I’ve been waiting for the final curtain to fall on the epic series before I pull the plug on television – for good. Now, three episodes into the final season, … Read More »

I don’t know how he finds all of these UMPC videos but jkkmobile is scraping these all over the web.  His latest posting is a video of an interview with Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer showing off the upcoming HTC Shift.  This UMPC is looking more and … Read More »

How do you get users to watch your web show? One way to do it is bribery. A new quiz vlog from the creators of online comedy show Can We Do That? called “3V” asks users to watch an episode, and then … Read More »

Thursday will mark a red-letter day for Apple: For the first time its stock will rise above $100 a share, a tenfold increase in a little more than three years. Think about that: If Google had risen that much since its IPO, it would be trading … Read More »

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