Ukulele, Tune-yards, Blake
Another week and another weekend wind their way down the road, never to be seen again! And here I am blogging again. Do you know about shit? was the question Jessica was asked by her son, in one of the...
View ArticleConversation in a cab in San Francisco
Cab Driver: So what are your plans this weekend?Me: Dunno. Go hiking?Cab Driver: No, I mean for the game.Me: What game?Cab Driver: Superbowl?!Me: Oh wow. Who’s playing?Cab Driver: Where do you live?Me:...
View ArticleFeature Friday: Places People Go Next
I'm a data geek. I love data. And I love it when companies do interesting things with data, particularly my data.So a few weeks ago, I was stunned to be told by Foursquare that the ice cream shop I had...
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The Facebook Phone Strategy Explained
Facebook just unveiled, as expected, new software for Android phones that puts the social network front-and-center. It will come preloaded on a new $99 HTC phone and be available right away on a few...
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Samsung Posts Utterly Massive Profits On Stupendous Growth
Samsung operating profit up 53 percent last quarter as smartphones offset usually slow periodSEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Samsung Electronics Co. said its operating profit last quarter rose 53 percent...
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The Breakup Of HP Just Got A Lot More Plausible
Hewlett-Packard’s longtime chairman Ray Lane has attracted blame for many of the company’s recent woes. Critics said he was a rubber stamp for HP’s disastrous acquisition of Autonomy in 2011, leading...
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Advertisers Are Worried Facebook Is Going To 'Invasive, Tedious' Ads On Your...
Advertisers warned Facebook today that its Home application needs to avoid irritating users with its adverts.“Invasive, tedious or over-frequent marketing in such a personal space will be an instant...
View ArticleVideo Of The Week: The UC Irvine Conversation
The Dean of the Computer Science and Statistics School (The Bren School) at UC Irvine is Hal Stern. Thirty four years ago in my freshman year at MIT, I was failing Differential Equations and Hal would...
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This Neuroscientist Worries That Facebook Home Will Change Our Brains
Baroness Susan Greenfield is Senior Research Fellow, Professor of Pharmacology, University of Oxford.Facebook is going to be in your face even more than before. The arrival of the ‘Facebook Phone’ and...
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Judge Gives Green Light To Claims That Apple And Google Agreed To Suppress...
A judge on Friday cited strengths of a suit charging Silicon Valley giants with secretly agreeing not to "poach" each other's workers but shot down a request for broad class action status.US District...
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'The New York Times' Built A Robot To Write Poems
New York Times senior software architect Jacob Harris has a thing for robots and wordplay. You may recall he’s the guy behind @nytimes_ebooks, the Times answer to the elusive and inscrutable Twitter...
View ArticleTechnology predictions
For those of us in the prediction business, it’s sometimes useful to go back and read past predictions to try to discern patterns in what they got right and wrong.Back in the early 90s, a lot of people...
View ArticleDown Time
The Gotham Gal and I took this weekend off and flew down to the Bahamas to see some friends who have a house down here. From the time we landed on friday to the time we return to NYC later today, I...
View ArticleDon't Let A Good Crisis Go To Waste
My partner Albert shared this line on his blog almost five years ago now. I find myself using it all the time. And it is an important lesson that I have learned in my career.When something goes badly...
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Two Tiny Startups Are Trying To Explode The $60 Billion Broadcast TV Industry
Two fledgling technologies could dramatically reshape the $60 billion-a-year television broadcast industry as they challenge the business model that has helped keep broadcasters on the lucrative end of...
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HTC Reported Truly Horrible Profits This Morning
TAIPEI (Reuters) - HTC Corp reported a record-low quarterly profit on Monday that missed analysts' estimates after it delayed the full launch of its 2013 flagship smartphone model, which will now debut...
View ArticleReuters Tech Tonic taping today
A while back, I posted a video of the week of Avner Ronen on Reuters Tech Tonic. In the comments to that post, the host Paul Smalera invited me to appear on the show and then invited the AVC community...
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Microsoft Can't Beat Google Online, So It's Trying European Courts Again
Google's mobile software target of new antitrust complaint filed by Microsoft-led groupBRUSSELS (AP) — Google is using unfair practices to cement its control over mobile internet usage on smartphones,...
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Microsoft Skewers Google For Giving Your Personal Data To App Developers
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Microsoft is skewering Google again with scathing ads that say as much about the dramatic shift in the technology industry's competitive landscape as they do about the animosity...
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Why Fab.com Dominates Social Media Commerce While Other Brands Struggle
With high profile brands such as Gap, Gamestop and, in the US, JCPenney, having opened and then subsequently closed Facebook stores (presumably because they weren't delivering ROI) it would be easy to...
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