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2009 Predictions: Intro

January 1, 2009

Every year, I try to make some pre­dic­tions about where the year might go. How­ever, in the past I’ve done so in one sin­gle long post. This year, I’m tak­ing a dif­fer­ent approach, craft­ing mul­ti­ple posts out of my thoughts relat­ing to areas I’m inter­ested in.

Google unveils web-based OS

September 2, 2008

A prod­uct long rumored and whose very exis­tence was long denied by Google itself finally launched: the Google browser, aka. Google Chrome. There are a num­ber of things that are good and a few that leaves one scratch­ing his head but ulti­mately, it is very clear that Google is work­ing very hard to ensure that it can […]

No Changes in Mobile

June 24, 2008

Today’s announce­ment by Nokia that it would acquire all of Sym­bian rep­re­sents an impor­tant move in the upcom­ing bat­tle for next gen­er­a­tion mobile devices (to call them phone seems unfair as they tend to do more than just make calls). In this entry, I’ll take a quick look at how the dif­fer­ent play­ers are cur­rently approaching […]

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 […]

Is Techmeme myopic?

June 2, 2008

I’m a big fan of Tech­Meme, a web aggre­ga­tion ser­vice that pro­vides, at a glance, a few of what’s being dis­cussed in the technology-focused part of the blo­gos­phere. It has allowed me to unsub­scribe from a large num­ber of RSS feeds that were pro­vid­ing me with redun­dant infor­ma­tion and I’ve long hoped for a ver­sion of Tech­Meme that would pro­vide me […]

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. […]

Safari: Apple’s New Platform?

June 12, 2007

Yesterday’s announce­ment of Apple launch­ing it’s Safari web browser for the win­dow plat­form was a bit puz­zling and I wasn’t sure of what to make of it at first. So I decided to read more about it and then install it. Of course, day one is always amus­ing. First, it’s clear that the secu­rity claims are not fully […]

Blogger’s Code of Conduct: a Dissection

April 9, 2007

Due to the recent ker­fun­kle over the Kathy Sierra affair, Tim O’Reilly has now pro­posed a “blogger’s code of con­duct” (cov­ered with no less than a front page arti­cle in today’s New York Times.) In this entry, I will dis­sect the code and high­light why I think such a code is a bad idea. June 26th of this year will mark […]

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 […]

2007 Predictions

January 1, 2007

This year marks the 10th anniver­sary edi­tion of the TNL.net pre­dic­tions for the year ahead. In past years, I’ve been bat­ting above 50 per­cent in terms of pre­dic­tions, except when it comes to nam­ing what will hap­pen with spe­cific com­pa­nies. The trends are gen­er­ally cor­rect (or in some case, early) and I always look at this […]