The CES Hype Machine Tunes Up
While you're all tucking into your Christmas turkey the hype machine for the next round, the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, is already filling media inboxes. CESlong-ago replaced Comdex as the...
View ArticleLaw & Order Twist in Blackberry Case
The patent case concerning the RIM Blackberry has taken a twist that could have come out of the TV show Law & Order. You know, those shows where the fights are over which of two adults killed the...
View ArticleThe Social Generation
A posting from Bernie Goldbach in Ireland helped remind me of just how much progress we've seen in the last decade. The best way to see it is through the eyes of people who are growing up. I've got two...
View ArticleFamily Fun, for Christmas
Just in time for Christmas, Atlanta blogger Mingaling (right) offered me (and therefore you) access to a great family fun game for the holidays.It's actually the beta test for something called...
View ArticleCredibility is the Coin of the Realm
I have long believed that the Internet makes us all journalists. By that I mean all of us -- as people, as companies, as institutions -- have an account called credibility. You build that account...
View ArticleFox' MySpace Violates Net Neutrality
Folks who were wondering how Rupert Murdoch and Fox would try and capitalize on the purchase of MySpace over the summer don't have to wait any longer. They're doing it by trying to break network...
View ArticleFile Hoarding 1.0 Proves Bad Business
The AP had a headline yestoday that Luddites and the RIAA will love. "File-Sharing Barons Face Day of Reckoning." The story is that old file-sharing sites are closing up shop. The RIAA beat them. But...
View ArticleIs Otellini Changing Intel Quickly Enough?
When Paul Otellini was named the CEO of Intel last year, he promised major changes. As the first non-engineer to rise to the top at the chipmaker, he said he would push platforms, and communications,...
View ArticleMaking Microsoft Disappear
Ever play the old board game Risk? There were two winners at the end, and one ultimate winner. The first kid would pile all his counters up in one spot (usually Greenland, because it was big on the...
View ArticleThe Content Chimera
The Media PC ain't gonna happen. The "walled gardens" of the cell companies are going to come down. The telcos' plans in cable are non-starters. All these huge corporations are subject to the Content...
View ArticleThe Video Fiction
Video is NOT the future of the Web. (This picture, by the way, comes from a fine student project at the University of North Carolina on Webcasting rights. Go Tar Heels.) It’s part of the future, no...
View ArticleAngel (Investors) in America
NOTE: I'm promoting this to the top today because of its comment thread. When I first interviewed Richard Wingard back in September, I thought little of it. He seemed to have a clever way to research...
View ArticleWhat Jobs Could Buy Today
Disney. The Walt Disney Co., including ABC, ESPN, the movies, the theme parks -- the whole shebang -- is presently valued at about $50 billion. That's actually about one-sixth less than it was worth...
View ArticleThe Superbowl's Most Important Ad
The funniest Super Bowl ad was probably the FedEx bit with the caveman saying "it's not my problem" FedEx hadn't been invented and the other caveman's package got stomped by the dinosaur. (Although my...
View ArticleFall of Radio Shack
News that David Edmondson, the CEO of Radio Shack, had to quit after a week because he phonied-up his resume was sad to read. The more I thought about the story, the sadder I got. That's because Radio...
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