World Cup 2010 on the Web, Cake Walk.
Stephen Colbert may have reminded us Americans how much we loath soccer, but the world wide web has brought the World Cup 2010 to every corner of the world. That includes the United States.…
On Location, Privacy and Risk
By Jay Livens
I was recently listening to the Infosmack Po dcast #50 over at StorageMonkeys and the speakers were discussing location-based social networking applications. Specifically, they talked about Foursquare although the same discussion to could be…
comScore Whoops! Microsoft, Yahoo, Google Still Figuring Out Search
comScore released numbers on Microsoft and Yahoo search engines this week, indicating that the two Google competitors are growing in their market share. The May 2010 U.S. Search Data report shows that Microsoft Bing/MSN…
T-Mobile’s Free Handsets, the Latest Hat Trick?
T-Mobile (in the U.S.) is still just one of the “others.” You know, not AT&T. Meaning, you won’t find any iPhones here. But that hasn’t put T-Mobile completely out of the smart phone game.…
Brocade Copies Juniper, Takes on Cisco and Emulex Tries to Take on QLogic in FCoE
By John Furrier
According to eweek, Brocade is taking on Cisco in the datacenter for switches. This is on the heels of some other datacenter news where QLogic competitor Emulex announced they bought ServerEngines for a whooping…
HTC Evo and Android Out to Save Sprint
Sprint is still struggling to regain a foothold in the treacherous mobile wars, which get especially gruesome around this time of year. Steve Jobs’ annual iPhone upgrades are becoming regular events around which mobile…
Motorola Cliq XT First Impressions
This is my first Google Android phone and I must say that I’m very impressed! The screen is great, the phone itself is very light and the overall design is attractive. I asked myself:…
Android Takes on Apple in Tablet Computing
By Jay Livens
I’ve blogged previously about the importance of a next generation smartphone OS and recently ran across this article over at the Wall Street Journal which reinforces the point. It discusses how multiple vendors are…
Kickin $aa$: Box.Net Announces BoxSync, Effortless Document Collaboration
By Nate D'Amico
Today, Box.net is unveiling the next evolution in their product line, BoxSync. The sync solution will be delivered as a installable desktop service, Windows to start, Mac coming soon. I was able to catch…
Apple Spoils Mobile Ads for Google
For some reason, mobile companies have fallen to advertising battles, despite the industry’s similarities to the early growth of the web. Instead of learning from past lessons, it appears that Apple is looking to…