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 »
Archive for April 26, 2007
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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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 »