Archive for July 23rd, 2008
Editorial Advisory Board Appointment - Business Trends Quarterly
Business Trends Quarterly is a pretty worthwhile publication, and is a great read for content from the analyst community across a wide range of business and technology issues. I’ve contributed to BTQ a few times and have posted about them before. I was recently invited to join their Editorial Advisory Board, and this has now been posted on their website. It’s a nice form of recognition, and it gives me a bit of a hand in guiding their future coverage of hot topics. Social media is on...
Live From f8Con
I am hanging out here at the Facebook developer conference, generally taking in the sights and sounds. The venue is getting crowded, even though we got over an hour to go before Facebook executives take the stage. You can check out my preview on what to expect, and also enjoy some of these photos I grabbed with my iPhone. Apologies in advance for not so great quality. ...
Content Offerings Only Reach a Few Million TVs
Over the past few weeks, there have been a flurry of announcements from Microsoft, Netflix, TiVo, YouTube, Roku and others detailing how their devices can be used to play movies and other video-based content, delivered via the Internet, on the TV. Industry insiders are speculating that with these announcements the tide is finally turning, that Internet-delivered video will soon make a big impact in the consumer living room. When looking at any new technology offering, however, market penetratio...
Shape of the Future?
This is good news, right? This convention center in Boston is NOT charging an arm and a leg for temporary roaming Internet access. BTW, it worked pretty well at a little less than one meg in the downwards direction. But, even if access to information is free, the energy to power that access isn’t. See below: I think this may be aimed at people who forgot their chargers because there were plenty of wall plugs you could camp next to and get some free kilowatt hours. But my g...
Yell.com Mobile Aims for Best of Both Worlds: Browser and Phone
In a new post, mobile advertising guru Andrew Grill highlights U.K.-based Yell.com’s new mobile map-based “yellow pages” services. The free-to-use (ad supported) service takes advantage of both browser and phone capabilities to offer a true Web 2.0/Voice 2.0 experience — for example, every number is click-to-call, and you can add contact info automatically to address books and send it to someone else as a text message. Unfortunately for North Americans, Yell Gro...
AT&T: Wireless Grows, Broadband Blows
In its second-quarter earnings call this morning, AT&T highlighted the awesome growth of its wireless business, which surged 14.8 percent to $11 billion and accounted for roughly a third of its $30.9 billion in revenue for the period. The company also said that the 3G iPhone was selling twice as fast as the first one, which given the price cut, isn’t too surprising. Equally unsurprising was the 10 percent rise in the number of smartphone subscribers over the second quarter of 2007 (AT...
Andy Grove Wants 10 Million Plug-In Vehicles in 4 Years
Andy Grove, the former chairman of Intel turned plug-in vehicle advocate, challenged the attendees of the Plug-In 2008 conference on Tuesday to put 10 million plug-in hybrid electric vehicles on the roads in four years. Those plug-ins should be retrofitted from vehicles with poor mileage like SUVs, pickups and minivans, he said. Grove called on the auto industry, Detroit giants and Silicon Valley startups to form an inter-industry task force to achieve this goal. He said the auto industry has m...
Roadcasting with webcams, streaming, 3G and Skype
Roadcasting. Joel Moye, a South Carolina truck driver, streams video and IMs while driving in the American South. Friends read chat room comments to him over Skype. You can follow his GPS. If nothing else, it makes the road less lonely. Toolkit: a laptop, the Gateway Notebook Model: MT6728. A CabCam visor facing the driver’s seat and a visor mount looking forward through the front windscreen are dual Logitech QuickCam Communicate STXs. Garmin USB 18 GPS Cable with GpsGate Installed. Conne...
Oxygen Founder’s New Global Bandwidth Exchange
The first time I heard about Neil Tagare was back in the go-go ’90s, when he was the man behind the international fiber network FLAG Telecom. FLAG went public in 2000, but by then Tagare was already onto his next big idea: building a $1.5 billion global network that would carry Internet traffic from most of the major nations over a giant fiber backbone. It was called Project Oxygen, and it not only received a ton of media coverage but backing from the likes of Lucent Technologies and Bech...
So Who Are YOU?
There are times when you may look at yourself in the mirror and you may not recognize the stranger you have become. This is a sign to sit down, take a deep breath and ask yourself “How did I get here?” What scares me is that I’m not sure if the Jeff of 2008 would even be friends with the Jeff of 1995. But I hope we could find enough things in common to connect and maintain an active friendship. As we get older our tastes change and we grow. Sometimes from the inside out and ...
Let’s Focus, People
There was a story in the Toronto Star earlier this week about how 100 drivers a day fail to stop behind the open doors of a streetcar, putting them at risk of hitting a disembarking passenger. So what’s one the big reasons for the failure to stop? Cell phones. Yup, drivers are so busy yacking away that they often fail to see a large,red public transportation vehicle come to a stop ahead of them. Why people in many places are still allowed to drive and talk is a mystery. There’s no w...
Digg, Facebook Connect To Headline at f8Con
Now that Facebook has announced its redesign that features a new improved news feed, what will Mark Zuckerberg, the enigmatic and somewhat shy CEO of Facebook is going to announce when he gets on stage at the f8 conference in San Francisco, tomorrow, July23rd. No I don’t mean a plain ole a platform upgrade. That is a question haunting many Silicon Valley insiders, especially since there has been a perceptible cooling of investor interest in Facebook Applications that fall in the “poin...
Skypephone 2 at 3 August 18?
While I can find no press release from any of Skype, iSkoot or 3, it appears there was some 3 media event yesterday where it was announced that 3 will be introducing a new Skypephone 2 on August 18. Key new features include: 3G mobile broadband supporting HSDPA a 3.2 Mpixel camera (vs the current 2.0 Mpixel) integration of Skype contacts into the phone’s address book support for email (post-launch date) software to allow the Skypephone to be used as a mo...
GigaOM Acquires jkOnTheRun
In the life of every company, there comes a time when it is faced with the choice of how to extend its reach: Either build a new product or service, or acquire the one that’s already established itself as the best in its class. Larger companies face that question every day, but it is rare for a nano company like ours to have to make such a decision. I am pleased to announce that Giga Omni Media, the company behind GigaOM, has acquired jkOnTheRun, a blog started by James Kendrick and Kevin...
Wireless HD Gets a New Standard Effort
Israeli chip startup Animon, which is pushing a form of whole-home, uncompressed wireless HD, has teamed up with Sony, Samsung, Sharp, Hitachi and Motorola to create the WHDI special interest group. Animon already has products out on the market to offer wireless HD using the same 5 GHz spectrum used by Wi-Fi. But the SIG should give both the company and its technology a boost as it fights off rival wireless HD standards and attempts to make delivering content from PCs to TVs easier. To read mo...
Blackberry Bold with a Skype Client? Introducing Some Truth into the Rumor
Update: It appears that yesterday 3 made some forward looking product lineup announcements that included the launch of Skypephone 2 and Blackberry Bold. On reading some of the coverage I have to wonder if some reporters and/or bloggers got the two products erroneously “interlinked” and seemed to conclude with the rumor that is now spreading on the blogosphere and for which I have addressed some misconceptions about VoIP over wireless carriers below. Also I have to question the entire...
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