A Kindle arrives

Sweet spouse Linda gave me a Kindle for Father’s Day - we’ve been spending the last 48 hours fiddling with it. Initially, I’m getting the NY Times and Wall St. Journal daily, and have a Kindle ‘Howto’ book. The ‘electronic ink’ display is amazing - and legible in just about any light. It’s very light [...]

Your iPhone and registration, please

This minor hack came along to Father’s Day brunch as a conversation piece, but I’m thinking, with the right security features, this might not be a bad idea. You could keep credit cards and other small personal documents in a special secure area, which docs would be able to send a special, encrypted ‘handshake’ at [...]

A Father’s Day thank you….

I have just been gifted with 3 perfect days thanks to my dear spouse, our family and close friends. Great company, great food (and wine) and a whole lot of fun! Thank you Linda, John, Julie, Grace, Mike, Cathy, Ingrid, Cleve and the whole supporting cast and crew…

Cell service providers: the end is nigh?

Aaron Vronko hinted at this in our interview last Thursday: once a mobile device has IP access, do you really need a cell phone company in the loop? Especially our current batch of providers, mostly former landline companies that completely missed the IP turn in the technology road. Few of these companies, seeking to recreate [...]

Image issues

This is bad.
This, however, is fun. I’ve been trying out the new, fast Mac by pouring over satellite images of Mars, looking for crashed spacecraft. Really, it’s fun…

iPhone 1.0: cheap, carrier-free phone?

Had a very interesting conversation with Aaron Vronko, a founder of Rapid Repair, a firm that specializes in fixing iPods and other small electronics. There hasn’t been a huge market for used phones in the past, but Aaron thinks iPhone will change that, and his company wants to help build that market by refurbishing and [...]

What about our 6 million iPhone 1.0s…?

So my $400 iPhone has just been rendered ancienne by the newr, faster, half-price iPhone 2… even by Silicon Valley standards, this is a jolt, and probably not great marketing by Apple (but more about this later). I’m starting to be afraid to buy anything Apple lest a half-price, better, faster version show up a [...]

The end of print?

Friend Lonn Lorenz sent this link to Steve Balmer predicting the full demise of print within a decade, in a Washington Post video (guess that says something right there). Over on the Apple side of things, John Markoff reports on the new iPhone (but also check out the MSNBC Flash video on that page, as [...]

Apple vs. Google

So, Apple finally noticed that the Internet is a powerful medium, and rapidly becoming the only way people work and play virtually (at least). So long-time orphan .Mac, which, for $100 a year, offers a fraction of the storage and other features that Google gives away for free, is now MobileMe, and Apple wins, right?
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New iPhone: Half the price

Great. Our ‘bargain’ $299 iPhone is now overshadowed by the new $199 3G iPhone. We’re expecting to have a little expert commentary on what’s in store for original iPhones, plus a walk-through of .Mac’s replacement MobileMe. Like mine…

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