Three Words You Wouldn’t Hear 10 Years Ago: Homebrew Render Farm
It all started when I wanted some new network icons. Somehow all the ones I used in the past were made by an art department I strangely do not have access to anymore, and…
What Do You Mean By Mobile Internet?
A blog post over at ReadWriteWeb and a study by UK-based Essential Research say that “only 76% don’t access the mobile Internet.” Mike Melanson at RWW calls this “combating the hype.” The problem is…
The 18 Best Videos Demonstrating Augmented Reality
Last week I announced that eComm will be Co-Locating the World’s First Commercial Augmented Reality Conference. Below are some AR demos I’ve assembled together, mostly mobile based. Remember, that if you’d like to speak…
Sidestepping the Comscore Brawl
By Tom Foremski
Mathew Ingram has done a nice job summarizing this weekend’s tempest in a tea cup among Jason Calacanis, Mike Arrington, and Fred Wilson, the East Coast VC, over web site traffic metrics provided by…
Legal First: The Supreme Court Addresses Social Media
The U.S. Supreme Court, for the first time, took note of social media last week, observing that “soon … it may be that Internet sources, such as blogs and social networking Web sites, will…
Booth Babes Revisited: Just Plain Stupid or Universally Appealing? [#CES2010 Leftovers]
We’ve seen a number of interesting videos come out of #CES, including the video that our friends Robert Scoble, Michael Sean Wright and Marc Ostrick put together as a part of their Spark Series…
Why Isn’t My Netbook Just a Smartphone Dock?
By Art Fewell
I was thinking about all the devices that we need to purchase and maintain – it gets expensive. Beyond the fiscal concerns, one of things that turns me off about netbooks is the idea…
Even with Android and Nexus One, Google Still has Apple Envy
By Alex Calic
While the media has enjoyed positioning the recent launch of Google’s Android-based Nexus One “superphone” manufactured by HTC as a direct competitive threat to Apple’s iPhone, I agree with Bill Gurley of Benchmark Capital…
Why The World Needs the an Augmented Reality Conference (and Why We’re Hosting It)
[Editor’s Note: Lee Dryburgh runs the Emerging Communications conference, a great source of interesting opinions and cutting edge information on the whole Infrastructure 2.0 world. He is announcing the co-location of the world’s first…
Google Q4 Earnings
Post on Google Earning Q4 from SiliconAngle Here is the post. Google reported revenues of $6.67 billion for the quarter ended December 31, 2009, up 17% vs the fourth quarter of 2008. Earnings for…