As 2008 takes its final breaths, I am sitting in my apartment, which is enveloped in a thick fog that’s hiding both the ugly high-rises and the beauty that is the San Francisco Bay. The fog is also muting the sounds of the city — a… Read More »
Archive for December, 2008
Year-end prognosticators have their work cut out for them. Most predictions made a year ago were undone by events few actually foresaw. Now things are as uncertain as ever. 2009 could bring a healthy recovery, or another financial crisis could set us back even further. So rather… Read More »
With Time Warner Cable poised to take Viacom channels off the air in New York, Los Angeles, Dallas and several other cities Jan. 1 due to a dispute over raising fees, that’s an awful lot of people who will be missing ”The Daily Show,” ”Best Week Ever,” ”Degrassi” and ”The City.”… Read More »
Startups associated with social gaming were all the funding rage in 2008. (Think SGN’s $15 million last May, for example, or the $17 million that went to Playfish in October.) And though executives with casual game startups recently told me they’re confident they’ll survive… Read More »
- Jon Stewart, others to go off the air on Jan. 1 for Time Warner customers. [NewTeeVee]
- It’s not easy being green. The Solar iPhone experiment fails. [jkOnTheRun]
- China to build a 1 GW solar plant, Portuguese happy with 46 MWs. [Earth2Tech]
- The ultimate Mac browser roundup. [TheAppleBlog]
- The set-top boxes are ready to rumble…almost. [NewTeeVee]
- How to pick and open source CMS for your projects (or your blog.) [OStatic]
With every tick of the clock, 2008 is taking its final steps toward 2009, when the year starts afresh. From a broadband perspective it has been an eventful year –- one that was good, bad and ugly. Here is a rundown of 10 stories that defined… Read More »
Updated: Back in October, when I broke the news that uber venture fund Sequoia Capital had organized a secret meeting in which it warned its portfolio companies to prepare for the pending financial apocalypse, the revelation was met with some skepticism. Some thought Sequoia was using the… Read More »
