One of the hardest things for me to do as a technology guy is to be patient when a new product comes out. When the iPhone was announced, I was torn between my greed to have the latest, and my grown up awareness that the price would drop and the [...]
Back on April 11th I wrote about the future of WiMAX and how I see it changing the way we view the Internet. Since then we have seen some significant movement in the WiMAX space. Sprint's XOHM and Clearwire combined their networks to create a mobile broadband company with an [...]
Let's continue the discussion on where the Internet is headed... An important paradigm to keep in mind is the concept of the Three Screens. These being the television, the computer and the handheld. In the earliest thinking about these devices, we have known that the Internet would be delivered on [...]
It is my observation that one of the hardest things to do as a businessperson is to look into the future and be able accurately see a picture of how things are going to be. As I sit here today, I had no idea I would be paying over $4 [...]
Intel: Honey I Shrunk the Memory All of the mobile Internet devices I've been ranting about lately utilize some kind of tiny memory; whether that is a small form factor hard drive or flash RAM, depends on the maker. Devices like the iPhone, and its iPod cousins, have traditionally used [...]
Google just announced a set of gadgets and standards under the moniker "Friend Connect." I am really intrigued with what they are providing with this effort. The main concept is to provide a set of tools that can easily be dropped into any Website to add eCommunity type features. Because [...]
I like knowing stuff. I kind of make it my job to know stuff, I mean we all do in a way, that is why people pay us, to know stuff; but I take it to the extreme. I read a lot; magazines, books, blogs, sites, whatever, just reading... My [...]
I have long searched for a word to describe the impact of technology on the business world. I now use the concept of "undertow" to get a concept across. The tools that technology has brought, and is still bringing at a high rate, get picked up and applied in ways [...]
I was talking to a new friend of mine, Louis Wing from BeyondROI, recently about email marketing trends and statistics. He was a founder at a company that dealt exclusively with email marketing from the application service provider standpoint. We spoke in detail about his views on email campaigns, technology [...]
I keep thinking about the Internet being in the palm of my hand. It's resting here in my Blackberry, slumbering and groggy; waiting for me to wake it up somehow. I want to use the Internet like I use the television or phone; I turn them on and they are [...]