Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category

G1 in the house

Saturday, October 25th, 2008

So I have been waiting for something to replace my T-Mobile Sidekick 3 (2.5 if you ask me) for probably close to a year.  I was dis-satisfied with the browser, really dis-satisfied with the email capabilities and my battery had lost some of its charge-holding capabilities. When I saw that T-Mobile ...

Reference designery, and the proliferation of Android

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

Generally-interesting-guy-I-follow, Hank Williams, talked about the Kindle a little bit in his post on Arrington's great Kindle idea. In it, Hank discusses the merits of creating a reference design based off of Amazon's Kindle for other companies to emulate and create a class of "readers." However, he mentions something about ...

The death of the record label?

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

A lot of people these days seem to be writing about how record labels are dying or how record labels are evil or how the record labels want too much money. And it seems that the fact of the matter is that they may be right on all counts. In the ...

Netbooks - A revolution

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

Technology blogger and generally interesting fellow Hank Williams recently blogged about the new Latitude-On option laptops from Dell.  He writes: The basic idea of the new Latitude is that the machine will have a second ARM based processor and Linux operating system along side the standard Intel processor and Windows OS. ...

The mobile web - aging dinosaur

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

There was recently a post over at Ajax Blog about Japan's super-advanced mobile web. Serkan Toto discusses some of the intricacies of the unique mobile web that has evolved in Japan, a country where most people don't have PCs and almost everyone uses their cellphone to browse the web. Toto writes: The ...

Enterprise Social Networking - Why build when you can buy?

Tuesday, August 12th, 2008

In a recent post on TechCrunch, Erick Schonfeld discusses how an outside organization has designed a new Facebook application to not only replace the university-related features that Facebook removed, but to do so with tighter and direct integration to the university systems. Schonfeld brings up an excellent point in his closing ...

“Network DVR” - Part 2

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

Hank Williams over at Why Does Everything Suck? raised some excellent points about the recent appeals decision in Cablevision's "network DVR" case. While Redlasso can almost certainly not operate the type of clipping service they were operating, this may be an opening to a much bigger opportunity. In essence the Redlasso ...

Appeal allows Cablevision to utilize “network” DVR

Monday, August 4th, 2008

In an article today on Tech Trader Daily, Eric Savitz talks about the ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals in New York regarding Cablevision being able to implement a "network DVR."  Eric Savitz writes: On the other hand, [Bernstein Research analyst Craig] Moffett contends the ruling is “a major loss ...