Here are some of today’s phone conversations I enjoyed reading or viewing on the web, along with some brief thoughts: An all-Google phone coming soon? (Times Online) — Rumors of a phone designed by Google surfaced last week — the device would obviously use Android,… Read More »
Archive for November 2009
Engadget has uncovered a new smartphone just appearing that has a radical new user interface. The Emblaze First Else (rotten name) uses a single thumb to manipulate all aspects of the interface which fans down the right side of the phone display. Lefties are left… Read More »
Updated with new information from Dropbox: You don’t go into file backup and syncing for the fame and glory, but that’s what it seems to be yielding for 2-year-old Dropbox. Simply put, people — including my GigaOM coworkers and I — love Dropbox… Read More »
I’m still not sure how excited I am about the upcoming James Cameron 3-D opus, Avatar. I want to be excited for it, but — eh, whatever. In an effort to ramp up interest in the pic, 20th Century Fox today released a an interactive… Read More »
TiVo’s subscriber count dropped by a sharp 314,000 for the quarter ending on October 31, 2009, the company revealed during its earnings call today. TiVo’s total subscribers fell to 2.76 million. Our friends at TV by the Numbers said this is the worst quarter… Read More »
Fighting the flu last weekend has really hit me hard. I’m feeling better today but my stamina is shot. I am working in the easy chair at home, and using the Tablet PC makes it more comfortable. Read More »
“Utter market failure.” That’s how Mark Cooper, research director for the consumer advocacy group Consumer Federation of America describes the U.S. vehicle supply. For the 2010 model year, just 44 models (4 percent of all EPA-rated vehicles for the year) get 30 MPG or more, despite… Read More »
Best Parts of the New Smart Grid Stimulus Awards: Smart grid analyst Jesse Berst sees three high points in the latest round of stimulus funding awards for smart grid projects: roughly 30 percent of the money went to long-overlooked utility-scale energy storage, much of the money… Read More »
Before web music service Spotify launched, serial entrepreneur Martin Varsavsky called it “Joost for music.” Indeed, Spotify would be well-advised to learn from Joost’s mistakes — or it could wind up suffering a similar fate. Read More »
Looks like I picked the wrong time to truly test the battery of my Amazon Kindle 2. I wanted to see if I could get through the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy on a single charge, and now I’m wondering if I should restart… Read More »
Like over 300,000 other Mac users who downloaded the MacHeist nanoBundle (as covered by Simon), I received WriteRoom as part of the package’s bevy of software. This lightweight word processor promises distraction-free writing. Having read about it and the productivity concepts underlying it… Read More »
On an snowy vista, a 30-something British man in a suit, straw cowboy hat and floral lei exits a blue phone box. He then starts jabbering to a strange-looking alien about deflowering Queen Elizabeth I, as well as his potentially impending death. And then there’s… Read More »
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