Jeff Nolan
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James wrote something yesterday that included this graphic: What caught my attention, as was the intention of the graphic, was the Android traffic number climbing from effectively zero to more than 40% in just a year and a couple of months. Obviously …
Is Discouraging Investment a Good Idea for the Government Right Now?
There is a banking reform bill working through Congress… in case you hadn’t noticed. Fred Wilson points out, rightly so, that the banking reform does a lot more than just reform banking rules, it goes to the very heart of who can …
IT Expansion in China: Thoughts from My Recent Trip to the Mainland
Last week I wrote a post that covered many of the observation I made on my recent trip to mainland China. Given my background in IT, a natural area of interest for me was the build out of IT in China businesses …
Pennsylvania School Spying Somehow Getting a Pass in the Media
The Pennsylvania case shows how even well-intentioned plans can go awry if officials fail to understand the technology and its potential consequences, privacy experts said. Compromising images from inside a student’s bedroom could fall into the hands of rogue school staff or …
Revisiting the Viability of Wide-Scale Electric Vehicles [Greentech]
Over the weekend @Devahaz asked me for my thoughts on current status re a post I wrote over 2 years ago lamenting the optimistic projections of newly minted electric vehicle companies. I realize that I may be guilty of “not getting with …
YouTube and Prop 8: When the Government Backs a Horse in the Online Video Game…
There has been quite a bit of commentary about the decision by a Federal judge to allow video of the ongoing Prop 8 constitutionality trial to be posted on YouTube, a decision that has been stayed by the SCOTUS with a final …
Google is Right: China is Not a Developing Country
Larry wrote this today and I think it pretty much sums up the situation for Google in China. Reading all of this laid out in a blog post can be summed up in one word: Wow. Now let’s look at how Google …
Why is the Government Competing with Google, Yahoo and Navteq?
The Federal government, specifically the Federal Highway Administration, is spending $1.2 billion of your money to nationalize the 511 highway traffic reporting system, replicating what Yahoo, Google, Navteq, and others are already doing. This is a great example of the overreach that …
San Francisco Tries to Encourage More Entrepreneurship [Do or Do Not, There Is No Try]
This is the message that the San Francisco Board of Supervisors is sending: “This legislation is trying to eliminate from the books the complete, unnecessary nickeling-and-diming of our business entrepreneurs during our worst economic recession since the Great Depression,” Chiu said. [From …
Who Really Owns a Community?
Taunton Press is a respected publisher known for a family of publications beginning with “Fine” as in Fine Cooking, Fine Homebuilding, Fine Woodworking, and Fine Gardening, we well as series of hard bound books and a premium subscription online service. Each of …