Archive for June, 2007

Just got off the place from San Francisco in Newark, en route to Tel-Aviv. The iFever has spread the nation and the nerds are really going wild. Scoble, Digg boys, and a whole bunch of people are blogging while waiting for their iPhone. Mike Davidson was one… Read More »

Update: Andy Abramson has more details on the story. CTO/CXO and several others are gone.  Still no word from the company or their PR department. Sunrocket, one of the many VoIP service providers that has been suffering as a result of an all-out voice assault by the… Read More »

As we’ve been counting down to this iPhone morn, our inboxes have been stuffed with applications and accessories geared for the year’s biggest phone phenom. Most are just addons that could likely fit on any phone, and are using the launch to goose sales, but some… Read More »

Everyone is wondering if iPhone is going to cannibalize the iPod business. With the help of folks at ZTail, we have put together a little tool that takes the search data for iPhone and compares it with iPod’s historical pricing, which comes from Ztail (and… Read More »

The introduction of the iPhone later today will signal a sea change for the music industry, especially mobile music. It won’t solve the music industry’s woes immediately, but it will herald a new era in which music can elegantly coexist with a phone on the… Read More »

4 Things I Learned in the War Zone

Continuing from where I left off in my previous post, “Founding in a War Zone”:http://www.foundread.com/view/founding-in-a-war: I and my cofounder “Eran Galperin”:http://www.octabox.com/about.html had both just been sent to the Israel-Lebanon border with our Army Reserve units. It was July 2006 and our units were unexpectedly deployed as… Read More »

Update: Looks like EDGE got the booster injection this morning. They are talking about the iPhone even on ESPN SportsCenter – which kinda tells you how big this iPhone launch is turning out to be. The two CEOs, Steve Jobs and Randall Stephenson, are of course putting… Read More »

GigaOM on the road: Destination Tel-Aviv

If there is any place I have wanted to visit, it has been Israel. A country so closely linked with the technology industry, and one with a bloody and violent history, and yet one of the most fascination places on the planet. I have been invited… Read More »

Facebook Developers Demand to Spam
What’s Wrong with This Picture?

Valleywag today published a letter from an anonymous Facebook platform developer complaining about the abusive limits Facebook is imposing on viral growth. “Facebook just recently unceremoniously undercut the very thing that was driving the virality of most the initial applications, which is the ability of people to… Read More »

No Contract, No iPhone for you

Update: Readers, I checked with Walt Mossberg about the SIM card situation, and the mistake is entirely mine in misreading his report. I never said there wasn’t a SIM slot or that the iPhone couldn’t physically accept SIM cards, even those from non-AT&T carriers. That means the… Read More »

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