iPad Has User Log-In Flaw
Amazingly, nobody has yet pointed out a severe usage limitation on Apple’s iPad that surely will cause grief with the very first reviewers. I’ll get right to the bottom line: Just like the iPod…
HP Storage Play? My HP V8 Moment
Wow—HP is finally getting its act together in storage. For years HP has talked about leveraging the systems and storage business but that vision has never materialized as a serious differentiator. Guess what? It’s…
Leo Laporte Visits Austin. Has Lunch.
By springnet
Lunch with the greatest podcaster of our generation? Why not. He tweeted. “Lunch at Ironworks.” Leo Laporte and his entourage and some fans are in Austin for SXSW. It’s Leo’s first. He’s already boggled…
EMC Does the Vision Thing: Federated Virtualized Storage
Last October I wrote: “By late 2012, federated storage will be the architecture of choice for large new storage deployments. These capabilities will dramatically improve IT’s ability to respond to business needs with minimal…
Twitter Data Suggests A New Class Of Web User – 80/20 Rule Applies
By John Furrier
A report by Mashable that walks through data researched by Barracuda Networks Labs speaks volumes on what I call a new class of web user. The fanatic, engaged early adopter. We (SiliconAngle labs) were…
Starting this Friday: The Cube, Broadcasting Live from Austin [SxSWi]
In case you haven’t heard, there’s a little gathering of geeks taking place in my home state, starting this week, called South by Southwest. Naturally I’ll be down there attempting to bring relevance from…
Open Identity Exchange Launch [Social Web TV]
John McCrea and Chris Messina are joined by special guests — Don Thibeau of the OpenID Foundation and Drummond Reed of the Information Card Foundation — to discuss the launch of the Open Identity…
Crowdsourcing and the Design Community
This is an issue that I simply cannot wrap my head around. Spec work appears in the design field infinitely more times than any other industry. It absolutely floors me that people think that…
Retrans-Consent: Be Careful What You Ask For!
By Len Grace
With the recent battle between Cablevision and Disney over Retransmission Consent in New York regarding WABC-TV carriage on Cablevisions 3.1 million subscribers, and thereby producing a coalition of Cable Providers to petition the FCC…
How the Mobile OS Wars Will Be Won
By Alex Calic
The future of the mobile industry is pretty clear- it’s all about data. Data revenues have allowed U.S. carriers to keep subscriber ARPU’s relatively stable in the face of 30% declines in voice revenues…