Dustin Puryear
Dear Entrepreneurs: Is Russia The Next China?
Sometimes I wonder if we’re a tad hyper-focused on China. It’s difficult, if not impossible, to go a single day without reading an article about China, either as the up-and-coming industrial nation or as the future cure to all of our...
The Apple iPhone is more about the experience than the technology
The Apple iPhone is more about the experience than the technologyThe move by Verizon and Apple to release the iPhone 4 to the unwashed Verizon masses is great, albeit expected. (We all knew it was going to happen, we just didn‘t know...
Attachmate Buys Novell
In a somewhat stunning development, Attachmate Corporation just bought Novell. The press release boils down to: “Novell, Inc. (NASDAQ: NOVL), the leader in intelligent workload management, today announced that it has entered into a...
You have no friends on Facebook
So, I’m not going to focus this blog on the already widely circulated news from Facebook about @facebook.com. That’s a done deal. And, honestly, not a bad deal. I’ve personally complained to my friends and peers about the hassle of...
Google and Apple Are Smart, Microsoft Is Dumb
Tim Bajarin at pcmag.com just wrote an excellent article on the OS wars entitled “The New OS Wars: Winners and Losers”. It’s an excellent read and highly suggested.To break it down simply, Bajarin writes that while the previous OS...
Why the Sony Walkman is Another Microsoft Windows
Poor Sony. They just can’t kill the Walkman. It’s hard to believe that the Walkman is still a high-profit product in Sony’s portfolio, but continued consumer need, however small, seems to be strong enough to keep Sony’s production...
Is RDP Turning Back From the Grave?
If you’ve ever dabbled with virtualization for the desktop (by dabble, I mean “spent thousands and thousands of dollars making it work”), then you should already know that it’s not as easy as people chalk it up to be. First off,...
Super Wi-Fi Coming to a Store Near You
Television broadcasters may not be happy about it, but as a consumer this could turn into some serious wireless bandwidth. The FCC is opening up the spectrum typically reserved for broadcast TV, with certain caveats on how that...
Outlawing e-personation May Be a First Amendment Issue
Ars Technica has a great if brief article on California’s attempt to make “e-personation” illegal. E-personation basically means someone impersonates someone else on the Internet. This could be via Twitter, Facebook, or any number of...
Blackberry Is Going the Way of the Dodo Bird
So, yes, I was doing my early morning round-up of cool articles, and came across “25 essential BlackBerry tips and tricks” on techradar.com. Good article!One problem though: BlackBerry seems to be going the way of the dodo bird.Let’s...
The Google Legal Juggernaut
I think we all saw this one coming: Oracle is starting a round of lawsuits to “protect” the intellectual property it bought during the Sun acquisition. The first victim, at least for Java IP, is Google. (Another good article on the...