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The 2012 Crystal ball

January 1, 2012

With a new year kick­ing in, it’s time for a new batch of predictions.

Google Acquiring Motorola

August 15, 2011

Why Google acquir­ing Motorola makes sense.

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 […]

2005 Predictions: Keeping the Score

December 19, 2005

So it’s that time of the year. As is the case every year, I’m review­ing the pre­dic­tions I made last year and look­ing at the score. Voice Over IP The big sur­prise here was the acqui­si­tion game. When I made the pre­dic­tions last year, i thought that the acquir­ers would be larger tel­cos. How­ever, com­pa­nies like Ebay and Yahoo! have […]

Apple moves to Intel

June 6, 2005

So we can finally put an end to the rumors and start look­ing at the impact: Apple, in a move that has been rumored for a long time, has announced that it would start using Intel proces­sors begin­ning in 2006. The 5-years out­look The inter­est­ing thing is the tim­ing of the move, a bit over 10 years from the […]

The Mac Mini platform

January 14, 2005

So it took me some time to fig­ure out what the Mac mini is about. Not so much what it is but what it’s impact in the long run may be and why and how it mat­ters. Size mat­ters My first thought, when I read the specs, was about the size of the device. My Shuttle […]

Why Apple should consider Wintel

November 19, 2004

Last week, two major events showed the decreas­ing power of the Oper­at­ing Sys­tem: the first one was the release of Fire­fox and the sec­ond was the release of Kon­fab­u­la­tor on the Win­dows plat­form. All this got me think­ing about how we relate to our oper­at­ing sys­tems and in par­tic­u­lar, about how I relate to the operating […]

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 […]

Wireless: A confusing Landscape

March 4, 2000

The lack of clear stan­dard­iza­tion and leader is imped­ing the progress of mobile inter­net technology.

Transmeta Changes the Landscape

January 19, 2000

Mor­ph­ing soft­ware could allow com­puter chips to change based on soft­ware upgrades. A new com­pany, Trans­meta, enters the space and could rede­fine how chips are produced.