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Apple is the new China

April 29, 2010

Apple’s large pres­ence in the mobile space leaves devel­op­ers with two choices: agree with Apple’s increas­ingly closed approach or for­feit access to a very large mar­ket of consumers.

Apple: Of Tablets and TVs

January 7, 2010

In all the frenzy about the Apple Tablet, peo­ple may be for­get­ting AppleTV.

2009 Predictions: Media

January 4, 2009

Con­tin­u­ing through a series of pre­dic­tions for 2009, in this entry I exam­ine the media space and present some of my thoughts about what might hap­pen in the com­ing year.

Reshaping TV

June 11, 2006

How TV could change.

Future Tense — IPzation

May 12, 2006

The con­cept of IPza­tion, in my view, is that every­thing elec­tronic inter­ac­tion is mov­ing to a level where the com­mu­ni­ca­tion will hap­pen over an Inter­net Pro­to­col layer. We are already start­ing to see the begin­ning of that phe­nom­e­non with Voice Over IP, which moves the tra­di­tional phone com­mu­ni­ca­tions over to the Inter­net. Sim­i­larly, tele­vi­sion sta­tions are starting […]

2006 Predictions

December 28, 2005

Since 1997, It’s been a long run­ning game here at TNL.net cen­tral to make wild pre­dic­tions about the upcom­ing year that have turned out to be only some­what off (and, as always, I promise to revisit them around the end of next year to assess how far off base I was) so here goes this year’s edi­tion. Broadband […]

Doing the numbers on the AOL-WeblogsInc deal

October 6, 2005

AOL bought Weblogs inc., the two year old weblog net­work founded by Jason Cala­ca­nis and Brian Alvey, for a num­ber that is rumored to be any­where between $25 mil­lion and $40 mil­lion. In this process, Time Warner may be pro­vid­ing some ideas as to the val­u­a­tion of blogs by tra­di­tional media. The power of the network […]

RSS and Media: Can’t we all just get along?

June 29, 2005

I keep try­ing to work on an entry to close the loop on the search engine and links research but RSS news is get­ting in the way. Last week, it was Microsoft’s wel­come endorse­ment and a new set of exten­sions and this week, it’s Apple and its announce­ment of a new spec­i­fi­ca­tion to add more data to […]

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 […]

2004 Predictions

January 2, 2004

With a new year start­ing, it’s time to jump back in the water and make a few pre­dic­tions as to what’s com­ing next. I sus­pect 2004 is going to be a big year in tech­nol­ogy and here are some pre­dic­tions for the com­ing year. Apple Apple will come out with a new lower-powered, lower-cost ver­sion of the iPod. The idea here […]