I have to wonder what the SF Examiner would have said if they had either Verizon’s FIOS or SureWest’s FTTH connectivity. In areas where AT&T is the only option to the cable company, AT&T’s UVerse is looking like a pretty good home or workplace upgrade to DSL. I mean, in some areas they are promising … Read more
Back in 2005 client Iotum went to Demo, captured a Demo god award for Pronto, a conference all and calendar mashup that brought intelligence to the conference calling arena. Last year client ifByPhone rolled out what Professor Mashup Thomas Howe calls one of the easiest to use Voice API platforms around. Now I see Ringful … Read more
Om Malik is a Mac fan through and through. So I have to wonder if he changes his opinion of NetBooks and joins the rest of us who have embraced them already when (if) Apple comes out with one of their own. You see, there are times for my Mac Book Pro or Mac Book … Read more
History always repeats. No question about that. First media form to grow big was the newspaper. Chains emerged. Profits soared. The most powerful force in any community was the newspaper. Think about it, every major comic strip from SuperMan, to the Green Hornet to Spiderman had the newspaper as a center piece of the story … Read more
Last weekend I went into RadioShack and grabbed one of the Acer Aspire One Netbooks for $99.00. Yes, I already have a few other Asus and even a original release Aspire One from six months or so back, but this one is different. It has 3G inside and works on HSDPA via AT&T. Add in … Read more
It was back in 2005 when at the suggestion of a few friends at AOL, namely Jim Tobin, who is now at Comast, Cindy Harvey and Ragui Kamel invited me to “shake up” an AOL creative session by being the protagonist on a panel that included uber analysts Mark Winther of IDC and other that … Read more
As the economy sours and as we all become more ecological or “green” one of the trends that we’re seeing on both coasts here in the USA is the increase in ridership of trains, both commuter and long haul. Growing up on the east coast I regularly took the Metroliner between Philadelphia and New York … Read more
As the economy sours and as we all become more ecological or “green” one of the trends that we’re seeing on both coasts here in the USA is the increase in ridership of trains, both commuter and long haul. Growing up on the east coast I regularly took the Metroliner between Philadelphia and New York … Read more
Om’s post about Jaxtr pretty much provides the kind of perspective I have on free services. The crowd that wants free never pays. With free not being a business model any longer, and with ad supported models about to feel very choked using current ad practices based on the impression model, not the relevance model, … Read more
Yesterday my flight from Paris to Newark was delayed by almost three hours. That meant the connection to my American Airlines flight to Dallas would never be made, so at Orly I logged on to their hotspot using Boingo and looked at options. There weren’t any. So I went to AA.com and changed my flight … Read more
