Media - what is it good for…

Congrats to Peter Gotcher and the rest of the folks at Topspin!  We need more companies like this one that are actually trying to do something positive for the recording industry.   And I think Topspin might win the coolest cover picture for a company launch.  Follow the link and check it out.  I could [...]

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Jeremy posted this morning about Garmin charging $70 to update the maps on his Nuvi to the latest & greatest maps.  As I talked about before, I believe Apple is aiming to make the iPhone the premiere mapping device and here Garmin is giving users another reason to ditch their devices.
Additionally, do most consumers really [...]

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Steve Jobs to John Markoff:
PA Semi is going to do system-on-chips for iPhones and iPods
I blogged about the acquisition here and my speculation about the purpose of the acquisition is confirmed by the Jobs quote (if you believe that he is honest here).  A couple of interesting things here:

The success of TI in the 1990s [...]

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Steve Jobs may or may not announce a new iPhone today and that’s important but it almost does not matter because the real power of the iPhone is the SDK and apps that get built on it.  Apple has effectively turned the iPhone into a developer platform and that has a tremendous multiplier effect on the value [...]

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Tottenham bought Giovani Dos Santos for £4.7M.  Villareal bought Jozy Altidore for $10M.  So looking at pure transfer fees (I realize there are sell-on clauses etc) that makes these guys supposedly about worth about as much.  There is something wrong with this picture.  While Jozy holds great promise Giovani is much further along.  Here’s a guy [...]

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There is a great article in the NY Times about Jorge Flores of Chivas USA.  It points to something I talked about before: there is great untapped soccer talent in the US in the form of immigrant kids or kids of immigrants.  The article actually downplays the potential of drawing a lot of kids from [...]

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There is a fascinating series of articles about the singularity in latest issue of IEEE Spectrum magazine.  Read them all.  Very interesting.  Intuitively I believe in the possibility of “thinking machines” that exhibit some characteristics of human consciousness.  However, when and how sophisticated these machines will be is very unclear to me.  In terms of [...]

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