February 6, 2007

More Gmail Storage in Paid Google Apps?

If it's true that Google is about to being charging for Google Apps for your domain, does that mean we will finally be able to get more storage? Inquiring minds -- and holders of 75% full Gmail boxes -- want...

The Shorter Steve Jobs on Digital Rights Management

Apple CEO Steve Jobs has a 1,870-word missive up on the Apple site calling for music companies to eliminate digital rights management. For those of you without the time and patience to read the whole darn thing, here, courtesy of...

Diapers, Love and BB Guns

Lots of people keep sending me links to this story, so I might as well put a link here. This NY Times story today is one of the strange things I have ever read....

Disruptive Automotive Infotainment

Interesting upcoming iSuppli webinar:Automotive Infotainment Market Enters Disruptive PhaseFebruary 6, 2007The three most popular consumer electronics products used in automobiles now are mobile phones, navigation devices and MP3 players. Motorists are moving away from traditional automotive entertainment electronics such as CD players...

CNN Showed 600-Million Online Videos in 2006

Some fascinating data in a Hollywood Reporter piece today, including that CNN leads the way in online news, as well as that it streamed 600-million videos in 2006 (including 67-million around Saddam Hussein's execution alone). By way of context, the...

The Trouble with Social Networks

"People keep asking me to join the LinkedIn network, but I’m already part of a network, it’s called the Internet."[Gary McGraw via Jon Udell]...

Has Telecom -- Read: Cisco -- Already Topped?

Things were just getting going for telecom, and Cisco in particular, and a bunch of people are thinking that maybe this is, at least for now, as good as it gets. As a Bloomberg piece points out, analysts are pulling...

A Foldable Fluidic Lens, and the Rise of Computational Metabolics

Two fascinating MIT Technology Review pieces are out about great work being done by researchers at UC San Diego here in La Jolla:A foldable fluidic lens that could bring telephoto to camera phones (MIT TR)The first complete -- and freely...