Motorola’s Xoom tablet gained mainstream awareness through a Super Bowl ad spot, but the reported $799 price tag could douse interest. Smart, long-term investments in components are helping Apple maintain its premium brand status, but at prices that compete well against the Motorolas of the world. Read More »
Archive for February 2011
Although it is far from a guaranteed win, AOL’s purchase of the Huffington Post makes a lot of sense for both sides. The latter gets the scale it couldn’t afford to build on its own, and AOL gets someone to take charge of its content strategy. Read More »
In case you missed the Super Bowl game last night, GM debuted another Chevy Volt ad focused on historical innovations. Instead of the “more car than electric” tagline, GM went with a simpler approach, highlighting how important the Volt technology will be for transportation. Read More »
The surest sign that an iPad 2 launch is near is that the rumor mill is in overdrive. Over the weekend, at least five rumors surfaced about Apple’s next iPad, including a possible new size, support for a stylus, and a more specific release timeline. Read More »
All collaborative groups experience conflict. Dealing with that conflict is difficult enough in teams working face-to-face, but remote teams experience additional challenges, such as communicating primarily over email and working in different time zones. What can we do to minimize sources of conflict? Read More »
GigaOM and the New America Foundation are sponsoring a debate between Craig Settles, an author and broadband consultant, and Blair Levin, the author of the National Broadband Plan, on how America can meet the broadband needs of its citizens. Click through to watch. Read More »
Lithium ion battery maker A123 Systems, which has built a business off of power tools and electric cars, has been increasingly focusing on the power grid and can thank power company AES for pretty much all of the growth of its grid sales. Read More »
The crush of smartphones, tablets and laptops all vying for ever more bandwidth intense content, has forced mobile operators to beef up their backhaul, rally for more spectrum and implement new network technologies. It’s also reshaping the way they build out their networks. Read More »
AOL dropped a late night bomb – it bought The Huffington Post for $315 million – of which $300 million is in cash. But when you get over the initial ka-pow reaction, and start thinking about the deal, not everything adds-up. Here is my breakdown of… Read More »
Flash-memory appliance maker Violin Memory has closed $35 million in new funding, further proof that improving the speed of data access is becoming a driving force in enterprise data centers and that flash will be a foundational piece to solving those performance problems. Read More »
In December 2010, the top 300 free applications generated over 3 million downloads, ten times more than the paid ones. Hillel Fuld debunks some myths and explains the best practices that developers of free apps have used to maximize their revenue and user engagement. Read More »
This week brought several examples of existing software and on-premise cloud solutions becoming a little easier to use or more widely available. While none were individually significant enough to spark dramatic transformation of the industry, these new tools, when put together, signify a maturing market. Read More »
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