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Last week, I was in San Francisco on a panel moderated by Rackable Systems at LinuxWorld, and not only did I walk away alive, I was impressed by the solid work that was being done at the event and amazed at how well Microsoft was fitting in The new iMacs were announced, and it is becoming increasingly clear that Apple's attention for advancement is...
The iPhone continues to do well for a device of its price and class, but the product that is likely to really break open the segment for Apple is the anticipated lower cost, more limited, smaller nano (picture based on patent application here) offering The product in the market that is most similar to what the nano is likely to be is the Neonode. I...
Summer is typically a quiet time, as the industry takes a breath prior to the back-to-school rush This year was a bit of an exception, with the launch of the Apple iPhone, which may get credit for revolutionizing much of the tech and consumer electronics (CE) industry. While sales are well below expectations, expectations were set unreasonably high...
This last week, I was introduced to a Linux-based PC that has the potential to out Apple by using a combination of open source software, Linux and Web 2.0 concepts I revisited another product that I think could free us from image management and enable us to use whatever PC we want at work or home -- safely -- with most of the benefits of virtualiza...
Last week should have been a bigger week than it was with E3, but that show is now a shadow of what it once was, and many of us struggled to pull anything meaningful out of the event There are simply way too manylazy game developers right now, and I think that could kill this market. Sony continues to be in serious trouble, and now the fight appear...
Let's just say the iPhone is the best generation-one product I can recall in the tech market -- ever -- in terms of hardware design and execution. But, much as Japan did in World War II, Apple merely stung the heck out of a number of big companies -- and most of Asia as a geographical region. It wasn't, by any means, a killing blow Even FOSS (free ...
In the U.S., a lot of folks are off this week because the 4th of July, which marks the Independence Day holiday, comes on a Wednesday this year. An impressive number of Americans have been spending the last few days scrambling to buy a US$3,000 phone, and I think it is time to begin talking about the impact of this event In addition, last week Gat...
This week, if forecasts are to be believed, 19 million of you will line up to buy fewer than one million first-generation iPhones from Apple. Given Apple's history with first-generation products, I'm not so sure that beating each other silly in a line at an AT&T store is going to be worth the trouble Besides, there's already way too much conflic...
Last week was kind of a disappointment, because I think most of us expected more from the Apple developer conference than it delivered. This is particularly true of the iPhone, which is way overhyped for a generation one product. Most tech companies -- and particularly Apple -- suck atgeneration one products You may recall that the Microsoft Deve...
Last week, I was on the road at Microsoft's TechEd conference and had a chance to chat with a number of my peers, some Microsoft customers, and a large number of Microsoft executives. Things are changing rapidly at that company: The Windows group is largely new, Bill Gates is mostly gone, and the company's strategy is increasingly driven by folks who seem to understand open source...
Last week, history was made.Steve Jobs and Bill Gates were physically on stage together -- for just the second time ever -- in what many have described as something of a love fest, with Bill repeatedly praising the Mac. Kind of makes you wonder what the two of them could have done as close partners As if to prove that point, Microsoft launched wh...
Last week seemed incredibly long, because we were looking forward to a three day weekend, which, by the time you see this, will likely have gone by incredibly fast. The vendor that builds a tool to address that problem will make a fortune Speaking of a fortune, the PS3 hasn't been doing well and has been losing one for Sony. It has been getting th...
Last week was busy:Microsoft supposedlythreatened open source with patent infringement, and it supposedlysaid Linux was dead. I'll come back to the word "supposedly" in a moment If that didn't piss off enough people, Engadgetfalsely reported delays for Leopard and the iPhone, trashing Apple's stock, and if there was anyone in tech not pissed off ...
Looking back at last week, I had a lot to choose from, but the two things that I thought were the most interesting were Sony's dropping the PSP (PlayStation Portable) price to a very attractive US$169, and the resignation ofPC World's editor in chief over a throwaway Apple piece, which got me thinking about ethics in technology journalism The first...
I've been spending a lot of time talking to folks who want to try the Dell Linux solution. I'm getting the sense that we have all been looking at Linux on the desktop wrong, and that products likeLinspire are simply wrongheaded Last week, Research In Motion may have actually destroyed the BlackBerry's growth opportunity in large enterprise and gove...
Last week was painful to watch. Don Imus made a statement that is common -- but inappropriate coming from an old white man -- and got shot for it, repeatedly, and is now off the air. This dovetailed with a now broad effort to create a code of conduct for the Web somewhat similar to what the broadcasters did decades ago. While it probably will fail, it shouldn't be allowed to, because the alternative may be far worse...
Sometimes it really is about competition and changing the game. In the business space, victory in the race to be the most green has been awarded to one company, while another -- with Al Gore on the board -- continues to come in last Ever since Apple launched the iPod, companies have been trying to duplicate its success. Unfortunately, most tried to...
Last week, there were three events worth talking about, but I'll mention one of them only in passing. The first was the entry of the Xbox Elite into the market, positioned against Sony. It is almost a great product -- and for new buyers, it may be good enough -- but Microsoft could have hit a home run and didn't HP launched its small business initi...
Last week Apple TV launched, and it appears Apple is following a similar script to what made the iPod a success -- but will it work this time? With the U.S. primaries coming up, and the incredibly well done remake of the famous 1984 Apple Ad playing a big role, I thought it would be good to remind you that not everything you are likely to read or s...
I'm spending some time thinking about missed and anticipated opportunities this week. In looking at Windows Server, I've become convinced that it is the wrong product for the Unix displacement market. In fact, in my head, it really always has been -- I just don't talk about servers much, so it doesn't come up On the desktop side, Dell is considerin...
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