February 2008

Squawk Box Feb 27 Preview

February 27, 2008

Some people are going to be house bound in the great white north today.  It's snowing.  Today's guest on Squawkbox couldn't be more timely!  This morning we're talking with Karel Lukas, from Yugma.  Yugma is a free web collaboration service that enables people to instantly connect over the internet to communicate and share content and [...]

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Lance Ulanoff, did you graduate journalism school?

February 26, 2008

Wow.  'Journalism' has hit a new low with this piece of drivel from Lance Ulanoff.   The Death Spiral for Facebook?  C'mon.  Lance rehashes old news reports from a year ago, and then takes a run at elements like the newsfeed claiming that they're somehow privacy invasive.   a) You clearly don't know, use or [...]

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Squawk Box Feb 26 — the death of mobile apps?

February 26, 2008

We had another very interactive call this morning.  Of our three topics, the "death of mobile application development" was most thoroughly discussed.  We were lucky enough to have William Volk, CEO of MyNumo — a mobile application developer — on the telephone.   William eats, lives and breathes these issues every day.  Afterward, one participant messaged [...]

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Talking up SquawkBox with Hictu!

February 26, 2008

Welcome to a new way to promote the SquawkBox — Luca Filigheddu's Hictu!.  Each morning i'll record a 1 minute preview of the day's call.  You can subscribe to it via this RSS feed.  And this morning's call? Today's topics: 1. The death of mobile application development.  Rubicon's Michael Mace published a lengthy piece over [...]

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Death knell for mobile?

February 26, 2008

I'm not at the point that Michael Mace has reached.  Not yet. In his piece Mobile Applications, RIP, Mace sounds the death knell for the mobile applications industry.  He blames it on the proliferation and splintering of platforms, and operator and distribution channel greed.  He recommends vendors focus on the web, and ignore the operator.  [...]

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Scanr on the N95

February 26, 2008

For the last few days I've been playing with Scanr on the N95. I first wrote about Scanr in October of 2006, but with the low quality camera on my BlackBerry Pearl, and the Rogers high seas pirate pricing on data, it wasn't an option.  With the new 1G data plan from Rogers, and the [...]

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Martin in favour of Net Neutrality?

February 26, 2008

From here it looks as if the FCC is in favour of Net Neutrality.  At hearings held yesterday at the Harvard Law School, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin had pointed questions for the cable industry, and opined that any traffic shaping based on content must be "conducted in an open and transparent way".  Commissioner Michael J. [...]

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Squawk Box February 25 — the Voice Phishing Call

February 25, 2008

In a classic phishing scheme, criminals try to dupe consumers into revealing personal information about themselves using fraudulent emails. Victims receive email purporting to be sent by a financial institution, or a prominent business (eBay is a frequent target, for example). Within the email are links to various websites, including valid links to the financial [...]

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Linking up with LinkedIn … on the road

February 25, 2008

Hey – LinkedIn has a mobile version available at http://m.linkedin.com. Cool!  I'll definitely make use of this. I like the guys at LinkedIn a lot.  But I'm scratching my head over part of this announcement: a mobile version of LinkedIn… optimized for iPhone users.  Perhaps I'm missing something, but I would have thought that a [...]

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Don’t be too quick to trash high definition DVD

February 25, 2008

“Our biggest competitor was that consumers seem to be satisfied” with DVDs, said Toshiba America's Jodi Sally.  Thus, Toshiba's decision to can the HD DVD project.    Toshiba's decision is a great illustration of the 10x rule.  To shift a market, the product being offered needs to be 10x better than what was available previously.  [...]

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