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All Hail the (Malicious) Human Brain

I am forever amazed at the creativity of human beings. Look at all the companies we have produced. The trillions of dollars of wealth we have created. It is amazing that our combined genius has dramatically raised the standard of... Full Story

Posted on June 26, 2009 3:02 PM

Microsoft Stops RIM/iPhone Reimbursements

I just learned that Microsoft will stop reimbursing employees for use of non-Windows Mobile devices. I had heard at a dinner with Microsoft employees at ITEXPO last winter in Miami that use of an iPhone at the company is an... Full Story

Posted on June 18, 2009 9:56 AM

Bing, Will You Bother?

While I am impressed with Microsoft's Bing search engine it lags Google in Blog and news searches, and is not as accurate as evidenced by it returning screen-scraped versions of original content instead of filtering these results like Google does.... Full Story

Posted on June 2, 2009 6:00 AM

Lost Smartphone? Take These Precautions First

I spent much of Sunday in Manhattan with the family and while there stopped by one of our favorite restaurants for lunch. A bit later in the day my wife realized her iPhone had gone missing. The last place she... Full Story

Posted on June 1, 2009 9:35 AM

Will Google Wave Transform Communications?

Google Wave is an ambitious project from Google which allows true real-time communications by integrating chat, email, a wiki, social networking tools and more. In many ways it competes with other services such as Facebook and as such it really... Full Story

Posted on May 28, 2009 6:43 PM

Following Apple and Keeping it Simple

My friends, we are in the midst of a tech follow the leader game the likes of which we have never ever seen. First Apple comes out with a mobile phone with a large touch screen and everyone; I mean... Full Story

Posted on May 26, 2009 1:42 PM

More Google Antitrust Talk

Back in January of this year I mentioned the possibility of antitrust moves towards Google from the Obama administration. I even mentioned Eric Schmidt bodying up with Obama to protect the search leader. A new article in the New York... Full Story

Posted on May 18, 2009 10:58 AM

Pufip Aggregates Web Metrics

  If you are interested in seeing how much a website is worth - especially one that takes advertisements, check out Pufip, a site which summarizes a great deal of information on backlinks and other important metrics from various sources... Full Story

Posted on April 28, 2009 4:24 PM

Jodange Opinion and Sentiment Analytics Gets Funded

Google is the scariest company in the world from the perspective of knowing the future. The information the company sits on - especially all those search queries and toolbars, not to mention Gmail, etc is enough to know what the... Full Story

Posted on April 27, 2009 8:53 AM

Avoiding Google AdWords Mistakes

I would like to start this self-promotional blog entry with a thank you. You see the last time I told you about a TMCnet webinar, you came out in force. You may recall it was a Zenprise/Blackberry webinar on... Full Story

Posted on April 20, 2009 8:28 PM

How Google Can Win The TV Wars

Last night I saw Seal in concert at Radio City Music Hall in New York City and as I watched and heard some songs which I didn't like, I pictured myself clicking the thumbs down button on Pandora - the... Full Story

Posted on April 17, 2009 11:05 AM

How Google Handles Outages

One of the most challenging issues for companies which provide service over the net is keeping systems up and running 100% of the time. No company has been able to keep their services running constantly but certainly Google is one... Full Story

Posted on March 26, 2009 6:54 AM

Stories Rich Tehrani Finds Interesting

If you are interested in the stories and headlines I find useful, I invite you to bookmark my Google Reader feed which I update fairly regularly. I occasionally will add comments as well. In fact, since I started using this... Full Story

Posted on March 25, 2009 12:01 PM

Nokia Cuts, HTC Gains New Androids

HTC Magic, Android-Based PhoneWhile Nokia layoffs mount with the news of 1,700 more being let go as well as other requested concessions, HTC acts bullish saying they will release three new Android phones. This on the heels of the fact... Full Story

Posted on March 17, 2009 8:56 AM

SimulScribe/PhoneTag Founder Sounds off on Google Voice

After a long 20 months, Google took its purchase of Grand Central and launched it at Google Voice and added a nifty feature, voicemail transcription. When I heard the news I was curious as to what Jamie Siminoff of SimulScribe/PhoneTag... Full Story

Posted on March 16, 2009 9:22 AM

Selling SaaS is Hard to do

You hear me go on and on about how hosted providers are having a field day selling in this economy. Apparently it is not as easy as I thought... Peter Radizeski in fact tells us firsthand how difficult it can... Full Story

Posted on March 14, 2009 11:59 PM

Grandstream GXV3140 IP Phone

 One of the most feature-rich phones around has to be the Grandstream GXV3140 IP Multimedia Phone. Grandstream was initially known as a low-cost provider of communications solutions but over time they have proven that they make low-cost solutions with solid... Full Story

Posted on March 12, 2009 6:03 PM

Why We Needed This Economic Reboot

It is impossible to watch the news or read the paper these days without feeling a sense of fear. Will I keep my job? My house? My investments? My car? And I am with you. I feel the pain of... Full Story

Posted on March 9, 2009 5:17 PM

Suing Google for Fun and Money Owed

What happens when you think Google owes you less than $1,000 and they don't respond appropriately? You sue them. Excerpt:   Ms. Milani reiterated her previous arguments, but the judge didn't buy them. "I don't think I have the power... Full Story

Posted on March 6, 2009 11:08 AM

Escaux Brings Unified Communications to Google Android

Escaux, a European unified communications software provider for SMB and enterprise customers has a new mobile UC solution which allows Asterisk to Interop with with multiple IP and cellular phone types. For example, Nokia and Polycom are some of the... Full Story

Posted on February 28, 2009 5:22 PM

TMCnet Blogs Add New Social Networking Features

Great news for readers of TMCnet blogs. As you know we now have 40 bloggers and continue to innovate with technology and integration additions to our blogs which allow you to use your social networking login to comment on our... Full Story

Posted on February 27, 2009 3:01 PM

Gmail Outage, Safari, Skype go 4.0 and Neutral Tandem Outperforms

This has been a very busy news week and I have tagged dozens of stories to cover but haven't had time to write about them all in separate entries so here is a summary of what you need to know... Full Story

Posted on February 24, 2009 3:59 PM

Soros a Communications and Tech Fan

Billionaire investor George Soros seems to be a fan of tech and telecom as evidenced by the recent Soros Fund Management SEC filing. Holdings include a ton of familiar tech and telecom names and I listed some of them below.... Full Story

Posted on February 18, 2009 7:32 AM

Ng Connect's Broadband Industry Convergence Opportunity

In 1998 I was walking the halls of a prepaid calling card trade show in New York's Javits center and I mentioned to one of the vendors that the future for service providers was enhanced services. The reply from the... Full Story

Posted on February 16, 2009 6:20 PM

Google Backs off From Industries it Helped Kill

It should come as no surprise that Google online advertising solutions are one of the reasons newspapers are struggling. Job sites like Monster and classified sites like Craigslist/eBay are other culprits of course. The irony of course is Google went... Full Story

Posted on February 13, 2009 9:19 AM