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10 Tech Deals that Defined the Decade — Part 2

December 9, 2009

Con­clud­ing our series on the tech deals that defined this first decade of the 21st cen­tury, here are my top 5.

iPhone 2: More than meets the eye

June 11, 2008

There has been much writ­ten about Steve Jobs’ keynote on Mon­day, intro­duc­ing a new ver­sion of the iPhone, a rebranded ver­sion of .mac, and a new ver­sion of the OSX Oper­at­ing Sys­tem. How­ever, amid all the praises, there seems to have been a few items miss­ing from the dis­cus­sion. iPhone: 3G OK but not every­where As expected, Apple did […]

Non-obvious winners and losers in Microsoft Yahoo Deal

February 1, 2008

The tech com­mu­nity is buzzing at the news that Microsoft has made an unso­licited US$44.6 bil­lion offer to acquire Yahoo and word is that Yahoo is actu­ally con­sid­er­ing it very seri­ously. The poten­tial merger has long been rumored and there are many rea­sons for which it could actu­ally make a lot of sense for both companies. […]

Palm responds, Part 2

January 12, 2008

In part 2 of a 2 part inter­view, John Moses, global Vice Pres­i­dent of Cus­tomer Sup­port for Palm, answers ques­tions about Palm’s unit replace­ment pro­gram and about other issues relat­ing to Palm’s tech­ni­cal support.

The iPhone is here

January 9, 2007

So it’s offi­cial: Apple now is a phone man­u­fac­turer. With the announce­ment of the Apple iPhone, we can now finally assess that new prod­uct and I have to say, color me impressed. The com­pany has man­aged to over­come a lot of the prob­lems sur­round­ing exist­ing mobile phones and cre­ated a device that is close to what geeks like myself […]

2004 predictions: Recap

December 26, 2004

With the end of the year upon us, it’s time to do a quick san­ity check on how well I did on last year’s pre­dic­tions. Apple Scored well on the intro­duc­tion of the Apple mini, which rep­re­sents Apple’s entry into the lower end mar­ket. How­ever, no video iPod this year, only a photo one, leav­ing Apple far, far, […]

Modular by Design — Telephony

August 12, 2004

Another area where the mod­u­lar approach is start­ing to have an impact is in the tele­phone ser­vice arena. Tra­di­tion­ally, tele­phone ser­vice was offered on a land line and was divided into local ser­vice, long dis­tance, and extra fea­tures like caller ID, call for­ward­ing, etc… The model was pred­i­cated on the con­cept of one device (the phone) receiving […]

Paid Content on a tiered structure

April 9, 2003

Reports that AT&T is plan­ning on intro­duc­ing a pre-paid card for online con­tent show some poten­tial new devel­op­ments in the online space. If we were to fol­low the model fur­ther, we could see some­thing new devel­op­ing, with com­pa­nies offer­ing a bas­ket of con­tent for a fixed price. For exam­ple, imag­ine you would like to get a sub­scrip­tion to the […]

Challenging WAP?

May 28, 2000

As reg­u­lar read­ers of this newslet­ter know, I’ve been look­ing a fair amount at how to get unteth­ered from the Inter­net lately. While I have played with a wire­less Palm and looked at WAP, there seemed to be some­thing miss­ing to the whole uncon­nected Inter­net issue. What I came to real­ize is that what works for a com­puter does not necessarily […]

It’s Connectivity, Stupid!

May 11, 2000

Here in New York City, I take my wire­less con­nec­tiv­ity for granted. The same thing was true of my trips in Europe. Car­ry­ing a cell phone and a wire­less Palm has never really been a prob­lem and, for a while at least, I was con­vinced that the wire­less rev­o­lu­tion was upon us any minute now. Last week, while on a busi­ness trip […]