Executives must dream of the free publicity Apple’s Steve Jobs enjoys when his fandom is anticipating a new product.
As you can tell by this page on Google News, the 3G iPhone is easily the most hotly anticipated way to spend disposable income on a gadget since the original iPhone was released last summer.
Reporters, of course, [...]
“”The next 10 years of innovations are going to be in the cloud. Enterprise software is not going away, but there is a transition taking place,” he said during a conference taking place in Boston.
As always, the reliability of the underlying network is the biggest uncertainty. The infrastructure remains under construction. As a [...]
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) called the change “a significant step forward toward bringing House rules into the multimedia age and allowing for members to effectively communicate with their constituents online.”
“In addition to their official (house.gov) Web site, a member may maintain another Web site(s), channel(s) or otherwise post material on third-party Web sites,” the [...]
However, he did not elaborate on that intriguing comment, and he was not available afterward for questions.
No, I told him. At an event like this, it’s better to know that, in fact, there is a human underneath the fur.
Indeed, Lucas doesn’t venture into public very often, so for many of the people who had come [...]
You can take various steps to thwart the efforts of Web spies, including using products and services that promise anonymous surfing. This week, a group of “programmers, artists, and designers” posted the full release of a program called AntiPhorm Lite, which attempts to obfuscate your browsing tracks by visiting sites at random. The make-believe browsing [...]
There is no doubt that Spotplex had talented and experienced people behind it, but, in my opinion, there were some key flaws in the site’s core functionality, which really hurt them in the end.
After over a year of operation, Spotplex is closing up shop, according to a message on their site. The company states that, [...]
Matt Cutts, Google’s chief Web spam fighter and a high-profile company blogger, was less delicate about the Hotmail issue. “Normally you think of Web pages being faster to update than client-side software downloads. In this case though, Chrome updates near-weekly, much faster than Hotmail did. Another illustration that velocity and speed of iteration matter,” he [...]
Business models have had time to play out. At the same time, it’s also proven to be the case that, building a sustainable and scalable business around a pure open-source play tends not to work. Many open-source companies have gone down the sell-support-for-the-open-source-bits path. The problem is that not enough customers buy up to the [...]
Nokia still expects its mobile device market share to remain the same for the fourth quarter of 2008.
“As a result of the rapid change in global consumer spending, which has impacted the mobile-device market, Nokia now expects that the industry mobile-device volumes will be lower in the fourth quarter of 2008 than previously expected,” Nokia [...]
The FCC originally dismissed the proposal, mostly because it asked the commission to allocate spectrum for free. But now the commission seems to be reconsidering it.
So in many parts of the country, broadband competition is working. But the problem is that the competitive forces aren’t working uniformly throughout the country. There are still pockets of [...]
