Palm is the Jack Bauer of the mobile industry. It lurches from one crisis to another, saving itself from the jaws of despair only to face some new and more daunting threat. And yet we’ve learned never to write it off as finished. Read More »
Archive for December 2009
Zipcar has bought a minority stake in car sharing startup Avancar, with an option to increase its ownership share in the Barcelona, Spain-based company during the next year, according to a release from Zipcar on Friday. This represents the first concrete step Zipcar has revealed… Read More »
This week, Google gave its employees a new phone that’s based on future Android technology, hacks of the Android-based Nook e-reader were made, Evernote was launched for the platform and reports emerged that Motorola’s Backflip may be the first Android phone on AT&T’s network. Read More »
Through high school and college, I used to rail against having to use outlines because I saw them as stifling my creativity. It wasn’t until years later, as more of my own consulting work grew past just straight up technical writing of user documentation,… Read More »
Microsoft officially announced the availability of an open-source Linux implementation of Silverlight 2 this week. The release of the runtime environment dubbed Moonlight 2 is based on a cooperation between Microsoft and Novell that started in 2007 and also involves royalty-free access… Read More »
The government is spending $7.2 billion to bring broadband to underserved and unserved Americans as part of the stimulus bill. However, the first grant allocations raise several questions about missing data, missing money and whether or not the government can spend the money before its deadline. Read More »
If you believe the marketing hype, you aren’t really a true Mac user unless you have MobileMe. MobileMe is pushed heavily in the Mac and iPhone UI as well as the Apple retail environment. Fancy terms like “beyond the box sales” are a clever way… Read More »
We’d like to say thanks to this week’s GigaOM sponsors: PEER 1: Fully Scalable Hosting Solutions Concentric: Hosted IT Services Mozy: Simple, Automatic, Secure Online Backup SoftLayer: SoftLayer delivers on-demand virtual data center services and solutions. Salesforce: Force.com Cloud Platform PayPal: Innovate 09 – The Intersection… Read More »
This holiday season is filled with more deals that I can ever remember. The latest to cross my wire is a free or reduced price HTC Droid Eris from Best Buy. The offer is for Reward Zone members (hey — that’s me!) and can… Read More »
Looking for a last-minute Christmas gift? You might want to consider one from the growing group of wearable personal metrics devices. The idea is data and feedback about our movement and our consumption can make us smarter, more motivated, and more competitive with ourselves and others. Read More »
I have a confession to make: I’m still trying to figure out machinima — not because I can barely operate the standard two-joystick video game controller, but because to me, in comparison to other online-only content, it’s new media’s complicated stepbrother. Despite the longtime success… Read More »
Some of us thank our lucky stars for staying busy throughout this year, with the occasional period of being overloaded. But I’ll take feeling overwhelmed with client requests over famine any day. I often say that I’m lucky with my business. However, the truth is… Read More »
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