Media - what is it good for…

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 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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Adobe and Qualcomm announced a deal today to integrate Flash into the BREW developer platform.  The most significant parts are:

going forward Flash developers can count on Flash being present on Qualcomm powered handsets (most prominently Verizon’s handsets)
that there will be no Flash royalty that handsets will have to pay to include the Flash runtime which [...]

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I should have written an update about this long ago but better late than never.  Anyway, I solved this problem on my macbook pro by replacing the memory with “authentic” apple memory.  Costs more but apparently Apple memory is better.

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There is a really interesting article the IEEE Spectrum by Clayton M. Christensen, Steven King, Matt Verlinden, and Woodward Yang. It basically tells the story of them apply the TPS (Toyota Production System) to semiconductor manufacturing and results of doing this.  Pretty amazing results.  The most amazing change is that this methodology allows smaller [...]

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By now it’s fairly well-known that selling digital music downloads is a tough business with thin margins. However, across both online as well as brick-and-mortar retailing, music and video is being used more universally as a loss leader and it’s not clear what this trends means for content in general. For example:

for Apple, [...]

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Live Mesh was introduced yesterday by Microsoft.  It is the brain child of Ray Ozzie and really seems like an out-growth of the work he did with Groove.  At its simplest, Live Mesh is basic file sync.  But another way to think about Live Mesh is as the ultimate P2P platform.  When people think of [...]

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I am not sure what to make of this but Apple has apparently bought PA Semi for $278M.  When Apple made the switch to Intel, PA Semi was supposedly in the mix, so I am not sure what it means that they have now acquired  PA Semi.  Apparently, it will give them differentiation in the [...]

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Backing up your data is a pain.  And so not many people do.  This is very broken in this day and age when hard drives are cheap.  Jeremy tells you why you should.  Add to this that more people have more DRM’d data on their hard drive.  In theory it’s no harder to back up [...]

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In a review of the Ibiza (another new MP3 player with some cool features), Michael Gartenberg points out something that I totally agree with:

Actually, what would even be more interesting is a wireless device with EVDO like the Kindle for refreshing content and acquiring new stuff wherever I go. Think iPod Touch meets Kindle but [...]

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