In order to celebrate the release of Windows 7, I am going to give you something to cheer about…. OK now I can resume being an Apple fan! Read More »
Archive for October 2009
Netflix announced its 2009 third quarter results today, and gave a whopper of an earnings call with our first official stats on how many people are streaming Netflix, thoughts on the company’s kiosk and cable competition, a mystery new CE partner, and its first… Read More »
Gary Vaynerchuk is the host of Wine Library TV (with over 80,000 viewers a day) and Director of Operations at his family’s company, Wine Library, in Springfield, NJ. He grew that business from $4 million to $60 million in only five years, and is… Read More »
Just two months ago, Ford Motor launched a trial of a software system meant to enable communication between its plug-in vehicles and the power grid, by way of smart meters and a Zigbee wireless connection. At the time, Ford’s Nancy Gioia, recently named… Read More »
Clearwire, Comcast and Sprint today provided a timeframe of when during the fourth quarter of this year they plan to launch 4G wireless broadband service in 11 U.S. markets. Comcast will be pairing up with the other two providers in Seattle,… Read More »
It is Windows 7 launch day but more importantly it’s time for another Palm Press. Palm Press is our weekly look at the world of Palm. The Palm App Catalog is getting more stock quickly, now that paid apps are getting approved by the company. As… Read More »
From an online perspective, Current TV’s most talked-about shows over the past two years have been the short, snark-heavy media critique segments That’s Gay and Target Women, which build their audiences thanks to a niche appeal and an engaging host who gives each segment… Read More »
Higher ups at News Corp, NBC and Disney talk about having a paid version of Hulu often enough that there’s no way it isn’t happening. But another dose of such comments at a conference in New York yesterday has gotten people… Read More »
Today is Windows 7 launch day and it is appropriate to show how I run Mac programs on the Windows 7 desktop. I know, you can’t really do that, but if you are running Windows 7 under Parallels Desktop on a Mac you can. In this… Read More »
After Microsoft and Google announced search deals with Twitter yesterday, several startups that focus on real-time search — OneRiot, Wowd and Collecta (see disclosure at the bottom) — put on a positive front in an article by Jolie O’Dell at… Read More »
The Defrag conference focuses on enterprise 2.0, social media, business intelligence, and data analytics. Defrag’s agenda includes presentations by Andy Kessler, Lili Cheng, Paul Kedrosky, Chris Shipley, Chris Sacca, Kim Cameron, Fred Wilson, Howard Lindzon, Doc Searls, JP Rangaswami, Laura Fitton, Maggie Fox, and… Read More »
Now that Bing and Google will be displaying tweets from Twitter and status messages from Facebook, web workers will need to consider how much, and how publicly, we wish to interact with these two social networks. Twitter If you’re like I am, your Twitter stream… Read More »