Archives for the "Software" tag
From Scandinavia With Love
I was recently speaking at a conference called Escandinavia 2000, which covered the state of the Internet in Scandinavia. During that conference, I had a chance to speak to a number of people about the state of wireless in the Scandinavian countries. Here’s what I’ve learned and how it can help those of you who [...]
Tags: Content, Europe, GSM, SMS, Software, Standard, Trends, United States, Video, Wireless, e - commerce, hybrid computing
In Business, Politics, Technology
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
Boo.com Goes Bust
As many of you may have heard already, Boo, the company for which I used to work, has closed its doors. I’ve been looking at the press coverage and it seems that some of the coverage does not work out. For starters, Boo.com’s failure is not an example of why B2C E-commerce will fail, it’s an [...]
Tags: Content, Currency, Europe, Integration, Languages, Process, Software, United States, e - commerce
In Business, Technology
AOL’s dark little secret
When AOL acquired Nullsoft last year, it probably didn’t expect them to develop software that wouldn’t fit the corporate line. However, last week, all that change, with Nullsoft’s release of Gnutella. With the release of this little piece of software, AOL unwittingly became a Napster competitor. What was surprising about this was not only the [...]
Tags: AOL, Google, Music, Search, Security, Software, web server
In Media
Wireless: A confusing Landscape
New Orleans was very much in the news this week, and not just because of Mardi Gras. In a level of excitement reminiscent of that felt in the early days of the Internet World trade shows, the CTIA Wireless 2000 conference opened its doors. AOL started moving further on its AOL Anywhere Strategy by announcing partnerships [...]
Tags: AOL, HTML, HTTP, Java, Microsoft, Motorola, Nokia, PDA, Palm, Software, Sony, Standard, WAP, Wireless, XML, e - commerce
In Technology
1994-2000: How Things Have Changed
The year was 1994. I had just moved to New York city the previous fall and was caught into the glory of Gotham. In the process, I had managed to start making friends in the online community there. This was the year Mosaic had been born and the first year of the modern net, as far [...]
Tags: AOL, History, Java, Linux, Microsoft, Software, XML, Yahoo, eBay
