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Skyhook Wireless said today it will provide its Wi-Fi-based location awareness technology for users of Locr software who want to automatically add geographic information to their photos. Although fun, like many location-based services that have been long promised and poorly delivered, it’s certainly not the type of killer application destined to drive the market forward.
However, [...]

Of all the technology subsectors out there right now, the one with the most promise is the mobile platform. This is true for many reasons, notably that:

Your mobile phone is always on your person, making it a lucrative market for advertisers.
Most cell-phone consumers are still carrying “dumb” phones but are starting to look at [...]

The Wall Street Journal today discusses the trials and tribulations of the U.S. dollar in a page one story, pointing out for whom it is causing problems, worldwide, and there was this one tiny bit that caught my eye:
Yet for all of the gloom, the world is unready to let go of America’s unloved dollar. [...]

SAI: WPP Sees Some Ad Slowdown in the U.S., More to Come
ArsTechnica: Intel Unveils New Embedded 45nm Xeons, Updates Chipsets
Austin American Statesman: Dell Net Income Falls in Fourth Quarter
LightReading: AlcaLu Climbs to 16.4 Terabits Over Fiber
AP: Microsoft Cuts Price for Vista

I love this post, by founder-blogger Scott Converse about his experience trying to find the right CEO to run his company, ClickCaster. Helpful as his investors are to him, Scott writes, it turns out that with respect to this particular challenge, they didn’t give him the best advice.

During the last 9 months I’ve had the […]

Brad Feld maintains a great blog, and yesterday he linked to this terrific post called Notes From Buffett Meeting, dated Feb. 15. The notes are from a Q&A session that Buffett gave to students at the Emory’s Goizueta Business School and McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin. Buffett is […]