Moments after Steve Jobs announced the new Apple TV yesterday, I sent out a status update that said, "Time to pre-order the new Apple TV. DLNA needs to worry, right freakin' now. And I'm a HUGE DLNA fan." I made it nearly an entire minute before my phone rang; that call was shortly interrupted by another, followed by a slew of e-mails, tweets, and Facebook comments. Pretty much everyone wanted to know, what the heck did I mean? The more I thought about it, the more I decided that the best response DLNA could make is in the form of a press release. So, here we go--the release *I* might write if I were in a position to do so: DLNA Welcomes Apple to the Living Room, Congratulates Apple on Decision to Enable Content Enjoyment in a

No sooner had we posted this morning on the offer / counter-offer bidding war between Dell and HP for the ownership of 3PAR that the Financial Times began reporting that the war was over, and HP walked away the winner. Hewlett-Packard appeared to have won the bidding battle for data storage technology company 3Par on Thursday, after Dell said it would not raise its offer and was ending talks. I spoke with John Furrier briefly before he went on the air this morning at VMworld on #theCube, and he took great joy in pointing out that he was on record predicting the outcome of the auction. “HP wins big here, mainly because 3PAR’s technology looks is set to become an essential piece of HP’s thin provisioning segment,” said John. �

It’s all about the screens, baby. With PC desktop and mobile screens locked down already by major OS developers, we’ve still got one huge screen looming on the horizon: TV screens. And, in light of today’s big announcement by Apple—which might include information about Apple TV—the various OS giants appear to be circling, girding for a battle. The current contenders for this title would probably come from the three heavyweights of the industry already: Apple, Microsoft, and Google. According to Andrew Eisner at Retrevo, TV manufacturers really need to standardize on the OS, for the sake of the customer—and this will probably lead to the ultimate showdown. He writes, A TV OS vacuum exists at the moment and unfortunately fo

By Sol Tzvi, CEO of Genieo As a young CEO and Co-founder of a startup company I often find myself thinking of the path I chose and the destination I lead myself to. Thinking of all those lonely times, when I’m traveling around the world in the middle of the night - sometimes even in the middle of nowhere really; crossing the world from one corner to another; scheduling meetings with different people from different cultures; speaking in a foreign language which forces me to concentrate not only on what I have to say but also on how to build a proper sentence, all in the cause of reaching out and touching these different cultures. This is my idea of living: exploring, learning, teaching others, sharing thoughts and ideas, braking

Tune in today (August 30)  as we kick off our wall-to-wall coverage of VMWorld 2010, live from SiliconAngle’s “The Cube” (see below) at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, California.

Last April, Dave Donatelli shocked the storage world by defecting from EMC to join HP. EMC's savvy lawyers locked him into his non-compete for a year. What a difference a year makes.... At the time of Donatelli's move, I wrote: So HP just put a storage person in charge of servers and networking. Finally, HP makes a management move that acknowledges storage spending accounts for half of people’s hardware budgets! But there’s more to this chess match than storage and HP just moved a pawn on the board. The question is what can the Rook now see that it couldn’t before? It's becoming more clear. Donatelli wasn't hired just because he's a storage guy. There's a bigger picture that involves building out what folks in the Wikibon commun

The first set of videos is from the game called Harvest and it is no wonder Microsoft has put its foot down when it comes to the handset specs. [Cross-posted at Winextra]

The Twittersphere and storage industry are abuzz with the ongoing bidding for 3Par.  HP and Dell are aggressively pursuing the company and have a vested interest in 3Par technology. I believe that HP is more motivated to acquire 3Par and will prevail. Both Dell and HP believe that a 3Par acquisition will generate additional business value, and they both must realize that the losing party will be placed in a difficult situation.  I believe that HP has more to gain by acquiring 3Par and more to lose by failing to do so.  Here is my assessment of the gains and losses by each bidder: HP gain if they win: HP has a broad storage portfolio and 3Par’s products would replace/augment the EVA and XP product lines.  EVA was de

For all the talk of dramatic change in the smartphone landscape over the last two or three years, they pale in comparison to the impact of what's next: The shift from circuit-switched voice to VoIP, or Voice over Internet Protocol. This has been talked about for 10 years, but the stars are finally aligning to hit with full force right now. Here is why: The average U.S. smartphone monthly bill is approximately $100, plus tax. Of this $100, approximately 2/3 goes to an unlimited voice plan, and the other third to a broadband data fee for service ranging from 2 gig to unlimited. Think about this for a moment. All the excitement of new and old apps alike, ranging from email to simple Web browsing to Facebook, Netflix, Dropbox, Twitter and

How much media content should I produce? As a professional journalist this has been a question that I've struggled with over the past five years since leaving the Financial Times. I can produce a lot of media content, and hopefully, it is all quality media content. But my concern is that if I produce too much, it will cause my readers and subscribers to switch off because there is too much from one source. I know that if some of my sources are too noisy on Twitter, Facebook, even on their blog or web site, I will switch them off because it is too much -- even if all their content is good. I don't want my readers doing the same to me. This question of how much media is too much media is not just my concern, it should be a concern for ot