Archive for June, 2008

The Steve Jobs Premium

This is a sidebar to The Steve Jobs Standard.
It was about the simplest shopping list one could imagine: an audio cable to connect my iPod to the Bose stereo in the family room.
My search on the online Apple Store yielded only the Apple Composite AV Cable. This allows you to connect an iPod to […]


The Steve Jobs Premium

This is a sidebar to The Steve Jobs Standard.
It was about the simplest shopping list one could imagine: an audio cable to connect my iPod to the Bose stereo in the family room.
My search on the online Apple Store yielded only the Apple Composite AV Cable. This allows you to connect an iPod to […]


Yahoo posts Icahn scoreboard; Touts Google pact to shareholders

Yahoo on Monday filed its shareholder pitch with the Securities and Exchange Commission as its proxy fight with activist investor Carl Icahn gathers steam. Much of the presentation was designed to “correct the record” on everything from the company’s compensation plan to how the Microsoft bid went down. But Yahoo does make a new case […]


Windows Vista, meet my Mother-In-Law.

Every weekend I return home from traveling the country working at the 10,000 foot level of enterprise architecture for Fortune 500 customers, there is at least a fifty percent chance that I may be called upon to do some in the trenches desktop support work.
Such drudgery is occasionally required, especially if you are to maintain […]


The Steve Jobs Standard

Ever since the black turtlenecked one appeared at the Worldwide Developers Conference, there has been no shortage of discussion about the health of Steve Jobs, the worry that he is mortal and who might succeed him.There’s the photo by photo rundown of the increasingly thin Jobs. There’s the discussion of whether the latest gauntness […]


AOL’s Platform A: We’ll pay Bebo, Facebook developers top pennies

AOL’s Platform A said Monday that it will offer Bebo and Facebook application developers “a guaranteed CPM” for U.S. traffic and says the ad rate is one of the highest in the industry.
However, there are a few caveats: CPM rates on social networking sites are notoriously low–think pennies–and even Google is having trouble monetizing social […]


Podcast: Churchill Club on Web 2.0 in the enterprise

In this installment of the Churchill Club podcast series, a panel of experts examines Web 2.0’s use in the enterprise. Can companies go from Dilbert to dude?
The event’s speakers include:

Steve Bendt, Senior Manager, Social Technology, Best Buy
René Bonvanie, Senior Vice President, Worldwide Marketing, Partner Programs, and Online Services, Serena Software
Paul Pedrazzi, Vice President, Strategy and […]


Open source router from Netgear offers custom apps and firmware

The newly-released Netgear Open Source Wireless-G Router offers developers the opportunity to customize the firmware and add open source applications.


Tech giants aim to cut patent trolls off at the pass

Verizon, Google, Cisco, Ericsson and HP are joining a group designed to buy up intellectual property before other parties acquire it to launch lawsuits.
The Wall Street Journal is reporting this group of tech giants–dubbed Allied Security Trust–is designed to thwart patent trolls and prevent stand-offs like the Research in Motion-NTP lawsuit, which was settled in […]


Smartphone battle royale: The land grab is good for buyers

Research in Motion misses its first quarter earnings target and cuts its outlook slightly. Palm has a hit with the Centro, but continues to disappoint. And Sony Ericsson sees a rough second quarter on “moderating demand of mid-to-high end mobile phones, in combination with a delay of new products shipped during the quarter.”
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