Archives for the "Future" tag
Tivo and Digital Media Servers
Back when they came out, I said that tools like Tivo and Replay could change the face of television watching. A couple of years ago, I assumed that game boxes would be the new home media center. What I missed, though, was the end run that Tivo was doing around the game companies. With yesterday’s [...]
Tags: AOL, Connectivity, Data, Future, Microsoft, Music, Networks, Strategy
In Business, Media, Technology
Geeks to English
CNN is running an interesting article about information data stores and the semantic web. A very sad thing was the following statement about the semantic web: One hopeful journalist from the Economist asked Berners-Lee to give an example of how companies could make or save money using it, but he didn’t have an answer. This [...]
Tags: Browser, Future, HTML, XML
In Technology
Cisco acquires Linksys
Today’s announcement about Cisco’s acquisition of Linksys is one that leaves me scratching my head a little. What is the logic behind this? Could this represent a change in Cisco’s strategy? Or is it a realization in the part of the networking equipment vendor that its future may not be enhanced by moving into the [...]
Tags: Acquisition, Connectivity, Future, Markets, Networks, Strategy, VOIP, Wireless
In Business, Technology
History repeats itself
Back in the early-ish days of the commercial Internet (circa 95), we were talking about the browser wars to describe the fight between then-leader Netscape Navigator and Microsoft’s upstart Internet Explorer. Should we start talking about the search engine wars as Overture and Google are about to go head to head in a new set [...]
Tags: Advertising, Future, Google, Microsoft, Privacy, Search, Trends
In Media
Challenging WAP?
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 [...]
Tags: AT&T, Future, Microsoft, Software, Standard, Trends, United States, Wireless, Yahoo, e - commerce
In Technology
