I actually had lunch with a friend today who had one and I was even more impressed. He showed me two add-on products: one is a dock. You attach it and it becomes a desk clock with access to local...

Thanks for the insightful comments. You pointed some things about this phone and the Moto strategy that I hadn't realized before.

Regards,
Ron

Until Motorola came out with the Droid (http://phones.verizonwireless.com/motorola/droid/), they were the forgotten cell phone company, but it wasn't that long ago that everyone wanted one of their...

Verizon made an ad (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37NKnDRPFKU) making fun of AT&T's 3G coverage (and it's manliness). AT&T wasn't happy because it suggested their 3G coverage was spotty. So they...

loganf, exactly, it's a case of 'Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.'

Thanks for the comment.

Ron

I'm not sure where you're going with this argument, Carling. If anything the proliferation of netbooks would mean more work getting done on the Web on web sites. Further, I see the underlying OS like...

Mark Cuban, the eccentric owner of the NBA's Dallas Mavericks, has a post in his blog (http://blogmaverick.com/2009/11/13/google-murdoch-madoff/) this week suggesting a way to kill Google by paying...

At a time when prices are being driven down across the spectrum of electronics, one company clearly has avoided this trap: Apple. While others struggle to squeeze profits from a market that is...

One of the great things about the iPhone is of course the App Store, which is a growing eco system of interesting applications. I tend to stick to the free ones, and not long ago I went and...

You can always count on Rupert Murdoch, the cantankerous News Corp. chairman, for a good laugh and he didn't disappoint this week during an interview on Sky News Australia...

Good points Derek and definitely something that should be part of the overall discussion. Thanks for the comment.

Ron

I think it's great how people have continued to carry the metaphor out in your own ways. Thanks so much for all the wonderful, thoughtful comments. Fantastic.

Ron

Who knew I came up with a business idea with a post where I was just having a little fun. :-)

Glad it has stimulated a little conversation.

Ron

For the record, I would have put this in a general OS category, but there wasn't one, and since I lead off the post with a note about the Apple Store opening, I just picked that one as the forum.
...

12481The New York Times reported today (http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2009/11/06/technology/tech-us-france-apple-louvre.html) that Apple has opened its first Apple Store in Paris, underneath the...

"If we went into an “evil room” and had an “evil light” shined on us, and we then behaved in an “evil” way we would be destroyed… there is a fundamental trust between Google and its users.”
~Eric...

Sorry skooda, but I don't have any invitations. I didn't' get any as a guest of the first round of people who were invited to test the product. Sorry.

Ron

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Leslie Stahl had a piece Sunday night on 60 minutes on the supposed impact of piracy on the movie industry. (You can watch it here...

There are no guarantees about Google, but the fact is we are using their tools for lots of tasks. As for the cloud questions, well, those are going to sort themselves out, but I think we will see...

You should go to the Google Wave site though and sign up, so when they release another bunch you will be in line for one.

Ron

Thanks for the comment. I would if I could, but they didn't give any invitations to the second generation of users.


Ron

I go on in "The Bad" section to discuss that. It was supposed to be segue, but I apparently didn't do a great job of making the transition.

The fact is that Google Wave is a cloud application,...

Hi:
Your English is fine, not to worry. I think it could be a project building tool. If you think about, my example was a simple instance of doing just that. We were able to coordinate and exchange...

A few weeks ago I received a Google Wave invitation from my friend David Knopf (http://www.knopf.com/) (after publicly begging for one in my post Hoping to Surf the Google Wave...

There was a good analysis in the NYT yesterday (http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/26/microsoft-google-and-the-bear/) regarding the Google Android strategy, which according to author Saul Hansell,...

There was a a lot of news coming out Microsoft and Apple last week:

* On Monday, Apple released its stellar earnings report (http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2009/07/21results.html).

* On...

You're right. The way they released it has taken the air out of the sails as a starting point, but Windows is the flagship product for the company and you think it would warrant at least some respect...

It's supposed to be Windows 7's big week, but other news just seems to keep getting in the way. And it's not just competitors like the news coming out of Apple this week, it's big announcements...

Right that should go over very well, Vanax. :-) But perhaps they can have a panicking PC looking for his data in the next Get a Mac ad. That would be a kick in the head.

Thanks for the comment....

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I've lived long enough to have learned
The closer you get to the fire the more you get burned
But that won't happen to us
'Cause it's always been a matter of trust
~Billy Joel, Matter of...

In a story this week by German news magazine Der Spiegel (http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,655422,00.html), I was surprised to learn that German book publishers are actively...

Network World reports that Microsoft has been able to recover much of the data:
...

Good point Shade01. Definitely not the best name!

Ron

I believe Ken Hess (who is our Linux blogger) writes frequently about virtualization. If we come across meaningful stories in those areas, you can be sure we will be writing about them. Definitely...

I'm not quite technical enough to understand how the encryption key corruption could cause such a problem, but it seems like those who are paid to maintain the data would be aware of such a danger,...

David:
While I appreciate the subtle distinctions of your definition, what you describe is how it was supposed to work. What this situation proves is not that this isn't an example of cloud...

No kidding! How stupid could they be? It's really beyond belief.

To put it mildly, it's been a bad week for cloud computing. First of all word got out that Microsoft, the keepers of the data for users of Sidekick phones completely hosed the data....

I have to say that I really hate the term "fan boy." It's usually used as a dismissive term to put down someone who speaks favorably of a product. It suggests that if you like a particular brand, it...

Nice going, Ken. Great stuff.

Ron