Media - what is it good for…

So the blogosphere is abuzz with the iPhone 3G and app store launch.  I am convinced this will be a huge success but lots of teething problems are present in the launch.  And the issue I have with this is that very few people (Om Malik excluded) seem to be taking Apple to task for [...]

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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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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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Saw this on GigaOM.  This software is a killer feature for me.  I have toyed with the idea of buying a cycling computer but this much slicker because I always bring a mobile phone anyway.  All the hardware is built into the phone already so essentially this is just software.  I am sure a cycling [...]

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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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Fred Wilson has a post this morning about streaming audio services on the web.  Fred’s point is that streaming music is changing how people listen to and discover music on the web and that this type of use will accelerate.  And I agree with that.  But some fundamental problems still exist with streaming music.  For one the [...]

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The music space news keeps coming.  MySpace is launching a music service with 3 out of the 4 majors on board (EMI curiously sitting this one out).  It could obviously have a huge impact and you have to believe that Facebook will do the same thing.  It will likely not have that much effect on Apple/iTunes but [...]

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The Wall St Journal has an article this morning saying that Google will launch an ad-supported music service in China.  This is in part a response to Baidu’s lead in the Chinese market (where a large share of the searches are for music on the web) but could also be a harbinger of things to [...]

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