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Archive for November, 2008

Lots of Sweet iPhone Candy

According to 148Apps, 10,000 applications have now been launched for the iPhone.
The ability to personalize the iPhone and extend its functionality is the iPhone’s “killer app”. I do wonder, however, how many of the applications that people happily download onto their iPhones are actually used on a regular basis.
I suspect most of the applications [...]

Two Thumbs Up for Mr. Tweet

Of all the Twitter-related services to be launched - and there are literally hundreds of them - the amount of buzz about Mr. Tweet has been particularly impressive.
It’s not surprising given Mr. Tweet is all about helping you find new people to follow on Twitter - something Twitter doesn’t do at all. And while there [...]

A Good Thing if LBO for BCE Fails

There’s a lot of hand-wringing going on over growing concerns the $52-billion leveraged buyout of BCE Inc., Canada’s largest telecom carrier, is going to fall apart.
If the deal does go kaput, it will be the best thing to happen to BCE and its customers.
How come?
Well, if the deal is consummated, BCE will $32-billion of debt [...]

No Twitter SMS for You, Canada!

Twitter’s troubles with SMS - otherwise known as its a huge expense that it can’t really afford - have now seen it eliminate outbound SMS message for users in Canada.
The move comes a few months after Twitter was forced to shut down SMS service for U.K. customers.
It’s comes down to simple economics: it costs [...]

Who’s Watching All That TV?

I watch no television….if you don’t take into account NFL and NHL games.
But according to the Neilsen Co.’s “A2/M2 Three Screen Report”, the average person in the U.S. watches an astounding 142 hours of TV a month.
What I want to know is what are these people watching? It may be a 500-channel universe but [...]

Goodbye Thunderbird, Hello GMail

I’m a big fan of Google services - search, blog search, finance, news and images. But until recently, I was only a quasi-GMail user, mostly because I didn’t want to commit all my e-mail to a third-party service supplier.
As a result, I was using Thunderbird. It was an unorthodox decision because it’s not like Thunderbird [...]

Who’s the Right Buyer for Twitter?

Regular Geek asked a good question: what is the right price for Twitter in wake of Facebook’s reported $500-million offer for the world’s leading microblogging service.
A different - and perhaps better - question is who’s right buyer. For whatever reason, Facebook doesn’t seem like right choice to carry the Twitter to the next level. [...]

Seth Godin’s Plan to Fix the NYT

As a former journalist, it is painful to see the newspaper business quickly deteriorate due, in part, because of its inability to understand how the Internet was going to change everything, and what they needed to do to survive/thrive.
What is particularly interesting when looking at the newspaper business and the blogosphere is how much bloggers [...]

Harmony One is the One

Somehow, the remote control devices for my TV and digital box disappeared.
The silver lining was it gave me an excuse to test the Harmony One universal remote, which lets you control a wide variety of devices using a single remote control. Harmony, which was started in Canada before it was acquired by Logitech, has a [...]

Chrome to Kill Firefox? Be Serious

Microsoft Watch’s Joe Wilcox must believe in conspiracy theories, that there was a mysterious shooter in Dallas on the grassy knoll, and that aliens landed in New Mexico.
How else to explain his contention that Google’s Chrome browser is going to kill Firefox based on the fact Google accounts for 80% of Mozilla’s revenue through a [...]

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