Smaller Online Retailers Get Scrooged
You can't swing a dead cat without hitting a headline these days about the booming online sales this holiday season. Too bad it doesn't necessarily includ... Read story
Renee Oricchio
Permission To Dump Online Comments
That's right, I'm validating your deepest desire; give that comments section the boot! After all, when was the last time it gave you anything but a headac... Read story
Gartner's Top IT Predictions
Business techie think tank Gartner put out its annual top IT predictions . This year's list com... Read story
WinPhone 7 Woes
Sales are sketchy. App developers are grumpy. And, the cheeriest news, at the moment, is that there might be a big update coming in January. You know; the... Read story
I Smell Gas: Google
Google Vice President, Linus Upson, recently told The New York ... Read story
Off The Clock Yet?
Awkward! It used to be so simple when we were all pounding sand for the man in our cubicles. Days like today, the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, were... Read story
Reach Out And Cliche Someone
I've been wanting to get this out of my system for sometime. It makes my skin crawl when someone uses the euphemism, "reach out," as in, "we wanted to rea... Read story
Yuck: Jobs And Murdoch?
In case you haven't heard, Rubert Murdoch, with the help of Steve Jobs, is set to launch a digital newspaper exclusively for the iPad by month's... Read story
Crackdown: Teenpreneur Selling White iPhones
Picture this: the geeky, ambitious teenage boy who starts a little tech business out of his home. Michael Dell did it. He got his start out of a dorm at t... Read story
Irony Alert: Google Voice On iPhone
Google is now offering a Google Voice app via iTunes for iPhone users. You can Read story
Ram, This Is Steve
That's "Ram", as in Ram Arumugam, an upset iPhone/iPad app developer from Seattle and "Steve", as in Steve Jobs. The headline is a direct quote from ... Read story
Support Your Local Veteran
Two million U.S. men and women have served in combat since 9/11. Twenty-five million U.S. combat veterans still survive present and past wars and liv... Read story
Facebook Advertising: Mad Huge
The latest figures on online advertising are out from Comscore. In a word, the results are stunning. 1.3 trillion (yes, that's a "t") display ads ... Read story
How Goes WinPhone7 Launch?
I told you so! Some of you took exception to my not-so-sunny take on the launch of Windows Phone 7 earlier this week. Well, lo and behold, its early days,... Read story
Ho Ho Ho Free WiFi
Attention holiday travelers: Google will be offering free WiFi in the skies again this year. Only this ... Read story
Windows Phone 7 On Shelves
It's here. The question is does anyone really care? Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 is now available starting this week. Uh, however, I haven't heard of ... Read story
Mobile And Social Web Merging
I'm picturing a big Venn diagram in my head as I write this. One circle is the mobile Web and the other is the social Web. The overlap seems to be getting... Read story
Lessons From Windows XP
A new survey from Forrester Research shows that 75% of all business-owned computers in the U.S. are running Windows XP. Compare that to Windows 7, which i... Read story
Lessons In Leadership From Twitter
Back in September, Twitter announced it had 145 million users. Staggering, no? Well two months later, it now has 175 million users. Some are pre... Read story
Airport Security and MacBook Air
Attention road warriors: here's some good news about the new 11-inch MacBook Air notebooks. The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has added it ... Read story
Greed Is NOT Good
Why are so many people cancelling their cable subscriptions these days? In an earnings call this week, Comcast had to acknowledge it alone has lost some 2... Read story
White iPhone 4 Sighting
So, what's the difference between a snipe hunt and trying to snake down a white iPhone 4? Answer: not much! Both have the same end result, so far: nada! S... Read story
iPhone Clues From Verizon, ATT
The rumors just won't quit that the iPhone is finally coming to Verizon by January. For those watching Verizon and AT&T's every move, the clues are pi... Read story
RIP Sony Cassette Walkman
Say it isn't so! Sony says it is officially putting the cassette Sony Walkman out to pasture. In fact, the last batch was shipped out months ago. Once the... Read story
MacBook Air On The Cheap
Okay, I think Apple is getting serious about PC market share. This week, CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the latest updates to the line of MacBook Air. Here's the... Read story
7 Inch Vs. 10 Inch Tablets
What's the optimal size screen for a tablet? Short answer: who the h-e-double hockey sticks knows. The tablet is so new, it's too new for things like scre... Read story
Apple Apps Top 300K - NOT
It was widely reported over the weekend that Apple has topped over 300,000 iPhone/iPad apps now for download. Not so fast! The report Read story
Is The iPad A PC?
If not, it begs the question then what is it? Can you really call a ten inch machine a "mobile device"? As widely reported this week, including on this bl... Read story
PC's Die A Little More
Gartner and IDC are both reporting PC shipment numbers for the third quarter. The figures vary slightly, but the trend is the same. Shipments are up from ... Read story
Self-Publish Through Kindle Singles
Amazon is putting out an "All Points Bulletin" for big thinkers with smaller format thoughts. Traditional books are generally over 50,000 wor... Read story
Ben, Jerry and Me
I just spent a lovely weekend in Vermont with my family. Naturally, we visited the Ben & Jerry's mothership in Waterbury. It was well worth the break ... Read story
Cisco's Consumer Telepresence Good For Business
Many are predicting a swift death for Cisco's UMI, a home teleprescence system for high definition video conferences with grandma. Did you ever th... Read story
Nana Nana Boo Boo: Android Spanks iPhone
Hey, Apple! You've got a serious fight on your hands. Android isn't just nipping at your heels, it's starting to kick your butt. Latest Nielsen fi... Read story
Windows Phone 7 on 11
It's a date: Microsoft is planning a Hail Mary pass , er uh, I mean launch events in New York and ... Read story
LG Tablet: Don't Wait Under Water
LG Electronics announced today that it is shelving plans to launch a tablet with Android 2.2 (a.k.a. Froyo). Reuters is quoting an anonmyous sourc... Read story
Busted: Apps Sharing GPS Data With Advertisers
Let me be clear, this study only covers Android apps. Howeer, researchers from Intel Labs, Duke and Penn State have been working together to track the act... Read story
Facebook Plus Skype Equal Juggernaut
What do Skype and Facebook have in common? For starters, they both have more than 500 million registered users worldwide. So when word gets out that ... Read story
Blackberry Throws In The Playbook
So much for rumors. Blackberry's parent company, Research in Motion, has unveiled its answer to Apple's iPad this week, Read story
Windows Live Bloggers To Go To Wordpress
Microsoft today announced it will be phasing out its blogging platform Windows Live Spaces, which currently serves about 30 million users. Starting today,... Read story
Is Twitter A Social Network?
According to Twitter it is not! Oh really? Earlier this month, Kevin Thau, Twitter's Vice President of business and corporate development made the distinc... Read story