Andy Abramson I’ve long been a fan of the wines of New Zealand, especially from the Marlborough region, and one of my favorite producers has been Huia. Best known for a Sancerre like Sauvignon Blanc, the winery also makes some sensational Pinots. Both Noir and Gris. The 2007 Huia Pinot Gris is a melon drop and citrus … Read more
Yesterday I received an email from one of the wizards of Gizmo5 who works for my friend and neighbor Michael Robertson (he lives a few minutes down the beach) about something I felt blows through the “Speed To Cool” and gets to “WOW” almost immediately. To make it simple, the email invited me to a … Read more
According to my sources, and what I’m already using, a new beta version of X-Lite is coming for the Mac, more than likely by early next week. Couterpath, which has seen some executive defections of late, with Jason Fischl moving on to Skype to run their developer programs, and others, has spent the better part … Read more
Over the next few weeks I’ll be touring the vineyard regions of France. To me, this spot in Beaune will be a slice of heaven.
Today US Air announced they will be adding the GoGo Inflight WiFi from Aircell. More in the sky work for all of us.
In an earlier blog post I was critical of the CTIA award process, and I was wrong. It seems CTIA should be critical and possibly litigious against Zer01 instead. A wonderful reader of this blog found something very interesting, that may shoot more holes in the unfolding Zer01 mystery. It seems they never won anything … Read more
I just learned some great news. Long time leader of the TMC conference platform, David Rodriguez is now President at TMC. Rich Tehrani moves up to Chairman and remains CEO. Well deserved as Dave logs more miles on the show floors than anyone I know in the business.
Future thought types have aired their viewpoints via Robin Good, one of the sharper experts on collaboration. My view is that conference have to go well beyond the “presenter” and “audience” model. For years there have been back channel discussion via IRC and more recently using Skype chat for people both in the physical and … Read more
Yesterday on KenRadio, host Ken Rutkowski and I jabbered on about the rumored new Apple iPod touch, that will come with a camera and a microphone-built in and 64 GB of memory. This is awesome news for the likes of Skype and client Truphone and will likely start a flood of “me too” applications from … Read more
Earlier today I received an email from a reader contending that GUAVA was written with code that was purloined. Rather than let this issue fester, I went to Gizmo5 founder Michael Robertson to help set the record straight. Robertson, who has been a strong proponent of open source technology since his MP3 era was quick … Read more
