Monday, April 27, 2009
Why Email Clients Need to Change
My inbox is broken. Not in an I-can’t-check-my-messages kind of way, but in a fundamental, inboxes-will-never-be-the-same-again kind of way.
Monday, April 20, 2009
Oracle-Sun: Whither MySQL?
As investors and analysts digest this morning’s Oracle-Sun news, some are wondering what will happen to Sun-owned MySQL, and whether combining the Oracle and MySQL database businesses would represent an antitrust concern.
Apple Is Approaching a Defining Moment
Come Wednesday, it will be Apple’s turn to discuss its results for the first three months of 2009.
Friday, April 3, 2009
Why Bit.ly Will Upstage Digg
Yesterday, New York-based start-up incubator Betaworks raised $2 million in funding for its URL-shortener project, Bit.ly, and spun it out as an independent company.
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Downturn or Not, Mobile Broadband Is Growing Fast
Earlier this week, comScore reported that daily web usage on mobile devices had doubled in the last 12 months, with nearly 22.4 million U.S. mobile users using their devices to go on the web.
Today, another research firm, Infonetics Research reported that despite the global economic downturn, the demand for mobile broadband is only going to increase. They expect that there will be more than 1 billion mobile broadband users by 2013 vs. 210.5 million at the end of 2008.
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Will a Shift to Cloud Computing Create or Cut Jobs?
I don’t often look to movies about beer for poignant macroeconomic commentary, but as February ended with an 8.1 percent unemployment rate (and rising), a line from “Strange Brew” struck me as particularly relevant. As they’re introduced to their new jobs as the only two workers on the bottling line, the Mackenzie brothers are told: “Welcome to 1984, the age of automation and unemployment. The rise of the machine and the fall of man. The end of the human era.”
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Should Google Be Added to the Dow?
A provocative story from Reuters Monday ruminated on which companies are likely to replace Citigroup and General Motors in the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Its conclusion: Google and Cisco are the most likely contenders, with Apple and Visa having a less likely chance.
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Broadband Speeds Our Economy
Now that President Obama has signed the $787 billion economic stimulus package into law, the real hard work begins: using that money to create jobs. To accomplish its many goals, the country needs the infrastructure to support them. That’s why the funding for broadband was so vital.
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Your Mobile Carrier Will Sell You for Pennies
Five major U.K. carriers are banding together to pool customer data so that it can be put into a giant database and then be used to sell advertising, The Register reports today. How long do you think it will take before this “database” idea lands on American shores?
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Why Facebook’s Future Is Mobile
With nearly 2,000 “friends” on Facebook, I should be a regular visitor to the site. I am not. Instead, I prefer to use Facebook’s mobile application on my iPhone to send messages, update my status, upload photos taken on the go and sometime even scroll through the news feed to see what my friends are up to. We are at the cusp of a new era in which the mobile and the wired web converge.
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Netbook Is Nothing But a Cheap PC
You know that saying–if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, then it must be a duck. Same goes for portable personal computers–whether you call them netbooks or laptops. Jen-Hsun Huang, CEO of Nvidia agrees. “Netbooks are not a new category, instead they are just cheap PCs,” he said at a dinner last night with a handful of technology journalists.
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Beta Is Dead
Beta, as it pertains to Web sites, has seen better days. Not long ago, saying the word as part of your Web development cycle could help land venture capital even faster than claiming “community,” “paradigm shift” or “disruptive technology.” Now, the term is dissipated and confusing.
Thursday, January 8, 2009
Bad Things (or Layoffs) Happen to Other People
Americans, by nature, are an optimistic bunch. Even in tough times, there is something to be optimistic about. Where others see the glass half empty, we see it as half full. That is probably the only reasonable explanation for the findings of this survey conducted by Glassdoor, a Sausalito, Calif.-based start-up that ranks employers by taking anonymous feedback from their employees.
Friday, January 2, 2009
With 2008, Let’s Say Goodbye to Mediocrity
As 2008 takes its final breaths, I am sitting in my apartment, which is enveloped in a thick fog that’s hiding both the ugly high-rises and the beauty that is the San Francisco Bay. The fog is also muting the sounds of the city–a good enough reason as any to ponder the year that was.
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Even Bigger Nightmare on Tech Street
The technology sector, already rocked by the credit crunch and slowing global economies, is facing a bleak 2009, the impact of which is going to be felt across the entire ecosystem. From PC makers to chipmakers to chip equipment makers, almost everyone is bracing for a stomach-churning ride.
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