Amazon.com is the top performing brand in the US based on two critical factors – trust and recommendation – according to a new report by market research firm, Millward Brown. And in tough economic times, higher the trust, higher the sales, the report says. Read More »
Archive for February 2010
Nokia’s N900 offers one place for all types of communications, aptly named “Conversations.” This catch-all bucket now supports Twitter as a method, but you’ll have to walk on the wild side — the repository for this update holds alpha and beta code. Read More »
Turns out we’re not the only ones speculating about what Google might do with ON2 Technologies, the video encoding company it finally acquired late last week after months of negotiations with shareholders. The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has Read More »
Eight years and close to $400 million later, ultra-stealthy fuel cell maker Bloom Energy is finally ready to officially launch and ditch its “stealth-mode” status. The company started its first ever media blitz on Sunday with a video on 60 Minutes, an article in… Read More »
It’s only taken the ultra-secretive fuel cell maker Bloom Energy 8 years and close to $400 million to unveil its refrigerator-sized fuel cell called the Bloom Box. Google, Bloom Energy’s first customer, has already been using 4 Bloom boxes to power a datacenter. Read More »
Our platform focus continues this fine Sunday with the e-Book Echo, our take on the week in the digital publishing world. An author weighed in on the confusing issue of international e-book publication rights. It seems an agreement is needed for each country and book. Read More »
Ted Rheingold, founder and CEO of Dogster, a niche social network, dropped by in our office recently to give us an update on his company. He talked dollars and sense along with offering me tips on what dog I should get. Highlights from our video interview. Read More »
It’s only taken the ultra-secretive fuel cell maker Bloom Energy 8 years and close to $400 million to unveil its refrigerator-sized fuel cell called the Bloom Box. Google, Bloom Energy’s first customer, has already been using 4 Bloom boxes to power a datacenter. Read More »
It was a busy week that started started off that way. In between making sense of all things Mobile World Congress, I read a lot of stuff on the web. Here is a list of articles/posts I think are worthy of your attention this weekend. Read More »
Last night I decided to head over to the local Denny’s and have a quiet dinner alone, and read a good e-book. I also wanted to take advantage of the free Wi-Fi in the restaurant, so a 7-inch convertible netbook fit the bill perfectly. Here’s why. Read More »
Following a string of acquisitions, new product development and vendor chest pounding this year, the cloud collaboration wars are shaping up to be a key competitive battleground. Cloud collaboration has now expanded well beyond the core of e-mail communications, giving users have more choices than ever. Read More »
Wired broadband is in trouble. And ISPs and Silicon Valley are to blame. The idea that wireless could be a real substitute for wired broadband showcases how crappy our current broadband is. We need fatter pipes, but we also need applications that take advantage of them. Read More »
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