David Spark (subbing in for Alec Saunders) here of The Spark Minute subbing in for Alec Saunders today on the Squawk Box. My guest on today’s show was Andrew Eisner of Retrevo, the consumer electronics search engine. I asked Andrew to come on and discuss his extremely popular article, “Seven reasons why the new iPhone sucks” and how Retrevo finds and indexes all content online about consumer electronics. We also got to talking about iPhone applications as well and if Apple’s walled garden approach is better or worse than the carrier’s walled garden approach.
Other topics in this show include the insane volume of High Def coverage that will be at the Olympics, the good and bad with Bluetooth and wired headsets.
Alec Saunders is the Vice President of Developer Relations for BlackBerry make Research in Motion. This is his personal blog, with his personal viewpoints. Prior to this Alec was the CEO and co-founder of Calliflower — the easiest way to hold a meeting, online, on a conference call, or on the go. A double-decade veteran of product management and marketing, he spent nine years at Microsoft where he helped launch Windows 95, the first two versions of Internet Explorer, the Universal Plug and Play initiative, the push into home markets, opt-in email marketing and what might well go down in history as the very first direct email list ever.
