February 2007

Renting vs Buying

February 22, 2007

$50 / year for an office suite sounds like a pretty good deal, doesn’t it?  Google is hoping you’ll think that too, as they tempt users to sign up for their new Google Apps bundle.  Various pundits are hailing this move as Google’s entry into the office productivity space, with headlines such as Google Targets [...]

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We don't need to do that… yet.

February 21, 2007

In Matthew Gast’s I wish Apple had taken on the telcos, he writes: The “control your customers and force feed them” model cuts against my entire experience, which is based on open systems and architectures. In theory, an upstart could design a cool GSM phone and sell it directly to end users, bypassing the control-freak [...]

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Privacy and Prejudice.

February 21, 2007

Over on the Skype Journal, Jim Courtney has written a blockbuster post titled Privacy and Prejudice: An Interruption 2.0 Manifesto for the AlwaysOn Lifestyle.  Based on his experiences using a variety of Always-On / Always-Connected devices over the last couple of months, this piece is a clarion call for a simpler user experience, and for [...]

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Grand Central and SIPPhone

February 21, 2007

Grand Central and SIPPhone are announcing an interoperability agreement this morning.  Full text below.  The news, short and sweet, is that if you are a Gizmo Project and a Grand Central user, you can now use your Gizmo 747 number to receive calls from your Grand Central account.  Practically speaking, what that means is that people [...]

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Calling the kettle black

February 21, 2007

Writing as a guest for the BBC, Ottawa Law Professor Michael Geist does a good job at poking holes in the latest broadside from the US copyright lobby.   What I am referring to, of course, is last week’s release by the IIPA lobby group of their latest “Blacklist” of international copyright villains.  They accuse Canada, and [...]

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Y2K Parti Deux?

February 19, 2007

The US Congress’ decision to muck with daylight savings time has IT managers running panicked.  Engadget warns: Smartphone users are particularly vulnerable since they need to update both their phone and computer in order to keep their schedules events on time. Y2K?  Perhaps not.  But just in case, if you’re a Blackberry owner point your [...]

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Nokia Mobile Search

February 19, 2007

Further proving the point that mobile devices are becoming the preferred data terminals of the future, Nokia has released Nokia Mobile Search, allowing you to search for content on your handset.  Targeted at Nokia’s high end customer, this applet is for Nokia N95, Nokia N93i, Nokia N93, Nokia N92, Nokia N91, Nokia N91 8GB, Nokia N80 [...]

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The "Say Everything Generation"? Old hat…

February 19, 2007

Picking through my list of favorite bloggers this morning, I came across Jeff Pulver’s Understanding the Say Everything Generation, which is commentary on a New York Times feature from February 12, titled Say Everything.  The gist?  Today’s kids are different — uninhibited in what they say and do online, they’re forging a new kind of [...]

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Congratulations to Moshe Maeir!

February 17, 2007

Moshe Maeir, the brains behind the Flat Planet Phone Company, dropped me a note to let me know that his company (an iotum partner) has been selected to present at the GigaOm launchpad event at Etel! 

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Picking the right channel to market

February 17, 2007

A couple of years ago my good friend Wendy Kennedy told me she was writing a book about commercializing inventions — a handbook for entrepreneurship,  targeted at technologists.  Titled “So What? Who Cares? Why You?”, it’s published now, and I’ve written about it a couple times.  Don’t look for it at Amazon, or in your local [...]

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