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November 30, 2010
Predictions for 2011
I'll be appearing on stage this week at the Media Predicts 2011 event at the Computer History Museum in San Jose, Calif., with my old buddy Quentin Hardy from Forbes, plus Eric Savitz, formerly of Barron's and now also at Forbes, and a bunch of other tech reporters. We're supposed to talk about what was hot in 2010 and then make predictions about 2011. My game plan is to sit quietly and just let Quentin do all the talking.
May 14, 2009
The Sancho Plan
I am writing this live from the Thinking Digital conference in Newcastle. Just saw a "band" called The Sancho Plan and they are mindblowing. Their web site is here. Hard to describe but they play electronic touch pads, making both music and video at the same time. Words fail. But they are worth checking out.
March 23, 2009
Recommended reading
A brutal, ruthless monopolist resorts to hardball tactics, including lawsuits, license revocations, and finally its multibillion-dollar acquisition power to kill off upstart rivals. Nope, it's not Microsoft. Great piece by Ashlee Vance in today's NY Times about IBM killing off threats to its incredibly lucrative mainframe monopoly. Will be interesting to see how IBM responds. In the past they've often just gone dark on publications that run critical articles. That's one reason you don't...
March 19, 2009
Schwartz: We've got those bastards at IBM right where we want them
Yes, the ultimate conquest is about to take place, as Sun launches a daring reverse takeover of IBM and completes its journey to rule the industry. This anyway is how I expect MLP might position the deal. Sure, IBM will try to describe it as buying up a weaker rival for a few billion dollars. But internally, the Kool-Aid drinkers at Sun will know better — what's really happening is that IBM is finally waving the white flag of surrender, and Sun is just letting them save face. We'll hear all a...
March 10, 2009
March 9, 2009
Alley Insider closes the gap — today only 9 minutes behind AllThingsD
Check it out, people. My man Dan Frommer of Alley Insider is slowly gaining on his Apple-watching nemesis at AllThingsD, John Paczkowski. This morning at 7:16 a.m. PT, Paczkowski was the first to re-report the non-news coming out of some Chinese publication that Apple is preparing an oversized iPod Touch, aka a netbook. Just nine minutes later, at 10:25 a.m. ET, Frommer struck, re-reporting Paczkowski's own re-report. It's an amazing performance by Frommer, who last week was running a full...
March 6, 2009
Benioff steals a page from the Jobso playbook
A reliable source at Microsoft informs me that this Maybach parked in a handicapped space belongs to Salesforce.com CEO (and supposed student of Eastern religion) Marc Benioff. This happened at the Borg's Silicon Valley campus where Benioff was attending a TechCrunch roundtable. Photo was snapped and Twittered by someone else at the show. See the original photo here and the Twitter feed here. I'm just taken aback that a humble, modest guy like Marc "Bodhisattva" Benioff would drive a...
March 5, 2009
Kutiman's YouTube jam
I just discovered this cool video on Andrew Sullivan's blog. Go check it out here. Guy takes random YouTube music clips and combines them into a mashup. Brilliant.
March 4, 2009
Daily blog roundup
To save you the trouble of reading them all, here are the highlights.
Palm earnings suck. See AllThingsD, or for a vastly different take, AlleyInsider.
Amazon does a Kindle app for iPhone. See AllThingsD, TechCrunch, or VentureBeat.
A bigshot is leaving MySpace. See AllThingsD (6:15 p.m . ET last night), Alley Insider (6:25 p.m. ET, a full ten minutes later), GawkerWag (7:14 p.m. ET), TechCrunch (no time stamp but seems to be a few hours later).
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