Rumors are flying that–after long wait–Verizon will finally flip the switch on Ev-DO in the Bay area. A reader from Mountain View pinged me earlier and said that he was getting some serious EVDO signal. Taking his advice, I decided to walk around San Francisco (I […] Read more »
NPR’s On The Media has a piece on my “GoogleNet” story in Business 2.0 latest issue. Bob Garfield asks the questions, I answer them. Interested in that podcast? Download it here. Read more »
Developer David Watanabe has released a beta version of the 1.2 update to his popular RSS reader NewsFire. The update features a souped-up interface for feed groups, as well as advanced ad blocking. A full list of changes can be found here. Because this is a […] Read more »
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SCIT For some reason or another, Apple has made the poor decision (in my opinion) to make the default format for screenshots PNG. In the past, if one wanted to change the default format, they would have to go into the terminal and change the format […] Read more »
With all the news about convergence between wireline and wireless networks, we are eagerly awaiting a “converged future.” Carlo Longino says, “I’d love to be able to get the rates of my Vonage connection, particularly on international calls, on my mobile phone from any hotspot. Just […] Read more »
Charlie Sierra says, Seriously this showdown (between Apple and music industry) is the classic battle between distribution and content. So sooner or later they’ll get in each other’s business. Buying content to boost the value of your distribution asset is the age-old Turner/Murdoch play. Read more »
Justin Hibbard says HP is getting rid to sell its networking business, with private equity buyout giants Francisco Partners and Citigroup as likely buyout candidates. With sales of about $450 million, its likely to fetch about $500 million. [ via Business Week Deal Flow] Read more »
Dear Whomever at Microsoft is responsible for determining requirements for OEM recovery system distribution: I trust that you follow the blogosphere (as mandated by Robert Scoble) and the myriad of complaints about the difficulty owners have with recovering from various problems that Windows XP creates for […] Read more »
Om Malik is weighing-in on the current challenges Jobs is facing with the music industry, trying to raise song prices on him: How can this geek be a better businessman than us, they say? Read Until iTunes came along, i might have bought a CD once […] Read more »
And we thought WWF was scary! Check this out! By the way I am up against Creative Commons Blog tomorrow. Read more »
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It is not going to be a happy weekend at the Jobs’. Both of Steve’s babies – Apple and Pixar – are in bit of a pickle. Pixar is being informally investigated by the SEC which has asked for more information from the company after it […] Read more »
Michael Connick shows us on his blog. Pictures speak louder than words: Read more »
For this years Resource Pool (I say “year” because who knows when I’ll get around to doing another one of these) we bring you “Automator Actions.” There won’t be a whole lot of commentary to this post…just a pile of juice links to cool sites with […] Read more »
Microsoft MVP and Incremental Blogger Loren Heiny has been working on a Tablet PC program that allows editing of documents with ink gestures. His latest post about this program has those of us who do a lot of writing in Word drooling for the release of […] Read more »
Stylistic ST5000 Fujitsu realizes that prospective Tablet PC customers have a big choice to make right up front, convertible or slate. To that end they recently introduced two new models in their Tablet PC line which cover those choices quite nicely. The Stylistic ST5000 is the […] Read more »
Internet has a deflationary effect on every industry it touches, whether it be financial services, travel, printing & publishing, media & entertainment, or telephony. Google’s strategic plan it seems is to obviously leverage deflation to its own advantage. Free, is the only model that works against […] Read more »
Craig McCaw, the wireless zen master, and market non-pareil has made his “check mate move.” His company Clearwire has raised $260 million in debt in order to expand company’s fixed wireless network. (Take that Vonage!) As a background, McCaw was the founder of McCaw Cellular, one […] Read more »
Just to keep all of ya updated, it has been a really hectic week, and tomorrow is shaping up to be equally rough. I am going to be in a blog-slow mode as I have to spend my cycles finishing up lots of work for the […] Read more »
FT has a piece about how Verizon wants to change some terms of its proposed $8.5 billion deal with MCI. It doesn’t want to “be subject to corporate governance principles which would mean Verizon CEO/Chairman Ivan Seidenberg could not keep both gigs. That’s fine but this […] Read more »
No seriously…. As Labor Day approaches, a new survey from Harris Interactive finds that two-thirds (66%) of US adults have taken or will take a vacation this summer … will pay extra for a hotel room with fat pipe …. people you are supposed to be […] Read more »
Japanese electronics OEM Thanko has introduced the Thanko USB Radio in Japan which looks pretty cool. The USB Radio draws all its power from the USB bus and is slightly bigger than a key chain flash drive. Why would you want a radio on your notebook […] Read more »
Tracy Hooten of The Student Tablet PC blog has ordered a Toshiba M200 Tablet PC and has posted on Tablet PC Buzz that according to the Toshiba web site is now shipping with a wide-angle display. The wide-angle coupled with the 1400×1050 resolution will make this […] Read more »
CompUSA is running a good deal on the Toshiba R15–S822 Tablet PC. The R15 is listed at only $1400 (after $200 mail-in rebate) which is a great deal compared to other sites. This is the same Tablet PC Eric Rice discussed on the Tablet PC Show. […] Read more »
Lora Heiny has some additional information about the mobile vision laid out during the IDF keynote speech (webcast replay here) by Intel’s CEO Paul Otellini. Otellini demonstrated (20 minute mark in the webcast) a portable computer with a 5” screen that displays in either portrait or […] Read more »
+ Mark Evans: Given VCs love liqudity events such as IPOs, you have wonder whether Vonage and CEO Jeff Citron made a strategic mistake by waiting too long to do an IPO. My take is Vonage wanted to be acquired rather than go through the IPO […] Read more »
Mike and the gang, figure out how in a Sk(h)ype world, a million is really a billion. Read more »
Wall Street Journal catches on to the trend that voice is being embedded in everything – from video games to instant messenger. This is only the start. Our friend Andy pretty much announced his engagement in the pages of WSJ. Read more »
Finally, Global IP Sound has issued a press release confirming that Google Talk is using its codec. Read more »
Multiple sources including The Daily Deal and The Wall Street Journal are reporting that Vonage is about to file for an initial public offering and is hoping to raise between $400 and $600 million. The Daily Deal has the scoop. According to sources, it’s possible that […] Read more »
Last Sunday night I crashed my powerbook. Before all the mac haters jump and say “HAH!”, sit back down. In the 3 years I’ve had my powerbook, I’ve crashed it twice – both were my own fault. Hacking things I shouldn’t have been… So back to […] Read more »
I just recently extended my external Hard Drive capacity by 250 gigabytes. It cost me $130. Try to beat that deal with a Lacie or something similar. The key – and this is really a note for relative newbies out there – is to buy an […] Read more »
Guess what is the fastest growing extreme sport in Silicon Valley – grousing about Google. The New York Times story mentions how they are sucking about all the talent from the market, causing hike in salaries and well soon inflate the Silicon Valley housing prices even […] Read more »
My Tablet PC (HP tc1100) has been running slower and slower of late. You know, the typical windows XP creeping crud that makes the PC take longer and longer to do anything. This happens often on my computers because I am continually installing software for evaluation. […] Read more »
Intel CEO Paul Otellini has pledged to have WindowsVista running on handhelds by the end of the decade. Otellini says that a new generation of devices he calls handtops (I hate that term) are possible due to Intel’s performance per watt initiative. (via MicrosoftNewsTracker) Read more »
First there was the Internet search, then the desktop search, and now it is time for what my Business 2.0 colleague Erick Schonfeld calls, “group search.” Following up on my little scooplet on Grouper-Ask Jeeves alliance, he talked to Grouper president Dave Samuel and got the […] Read more »
Google has decided to enter the IM and VoIP market with a new service called Google Talk. Based on the open standard Jabber protocol for instant messaging, with audio chat thrown in for good measure, Google Talk is a full-fledged IM client. Unfortunately, the current client […] Read more »
Mini Review: Just had a nice chat with Jon Gales using the iChat client, and it worked perfectly. The quality of sound was great and had no feedback or anything of the sort using Powerbook’s built in Mic and speakers. Anyone have screen shots of the […] Read more »
You don’t begin to think about how popular iTunes is until you see just how many people have taken it up for casual use. After I connected to the dorm network when I moved into my new school (transferring from one to another), I was poking […] Read more »
I have seen this on several Apple blogs recently. Apple has a job posting calling for a Handwriting Recognition Engineer. The wording of the solicitation is very interesting indeed: Title: Handwriting Recognition Engineer Req. ID: 2379263Location: Santa Clara Valley, California Country: United StatesReq Date: 11-Aug-2005 Are […] Read more »
Red is always ferreting out cool tools and his list of 20 Skype tools is excellent for anyone who uses the VoIP program. He’s got brief descriptions and links to all the tools which run the gamut from hardware to software utilities to make the Skype […] Read more »
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