It’s Friday afternoon. You clean up and get ready for respite. Surprise, surprise … within an hour of checking out for the weekend, a phone call comes in. What do you do? Ignore the call? Pick it up? Read More »
Archive for March 2010
Music is moving into the cloud. Access is replacing ownership of albums and song files, online streams are replacing desktop playback and mobile access is renewing interest in on-demand music subscriptions. So how come I’m still not ready to pay for any of it? Read More »
While I was using my Pre today I was struck once again with how good webOS is from a user’s standpoint. Then it hit me right between the eyes — wouldn’t webOS be fantastic on a 7-inch slate? It’s time for a Palm Pilot revival. Read More »
Apple Races to Strike Content Deals Ahead of iPad Release; the company is still negotiating with media companies for a price cut on TV shows that people can download onto the device. (Wall Street Journal) Disney to Offer Mobile VOD in the U.K.; a new deal… Read More »
It’s a cloudy day for the solar photovoltaic maker SunPower. The company announced its fourth quarter and 2009 year results this afternoon and let loose a triple-whammy of bad news: a drop in fourth quarter profits, a lower-than-expected earnings guidance for 2010 and a restating of… Read More »
Formspring.me, the fascinatingly simple and popular personal Q&A site, has raised $2.5 million from an impressive list of angel investors: The site, which launched exactly 113 days ago, had 50 million unique visitors in the last 30 days and more than 300 million questions answered. Read More »
The release of court filings in the three-year old copyright infringement suit between Viacom and YouTube has opened a whole new can of worms. To grow, Viacom says that YouTube’s founders and later executives at Google turned a blind eye to copyrighted material. Read More »
HTC has finally spoken out regarding the pending lawsuit Apple launched against the smartphone maker regarding its use of multi-touch as an interface navigation mechanism, and around 20 other technologies. It should surprise absolutely no one that the Taiwanese company doesn’t see eye-to-eye with… Read More »
Google has launched a new gadget (available in Google Calendar Labs) called Smart Rescheduler for its Google Calendar service. Once installed, if you want to reschedule a meeting, all you have to do is select an event and let Google find new time. Read More »
Here’s today’s wacky theory: Maybe the reason Viacom has gone after YouTube so litigiously is because YouTube is “the one that got away” — and anyone who’s ever had an unrequited crush knows how much it hurts to see something special slip through one’s fingers. In… Read More »
Having gone toe-to-toe with Macmillan Publishing over e-book prices last month, only to retreat in the face of a consumer backlash, Amazon is once again talking tough with publishers. This time, however, the stakes are even higher for the Kindle-maker. Read More »
The Palm Pre feels at times like the Jan Brady of the mobile world — lacking the Marsha-ish confidence and good looks of the iPhone, or the Cindy-like next-big-thing appeal of the Droid. Thus, no one pays it much attention or takes it terribly seriously.… Read More »
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