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Google Pays Half Million Per Patent for Motorola Mobility
Google just purchased patents as part the acquisition of Motorola Mobility – 24,500 of them to be exact. At a $12.5B valuation that puts the value per patent at $510,204 apiece. But the search giant also gets 19,000 employees on...
Local: Where Apple Must Disintermediate Google
Disintermediation and disruption is fascinating – it is amazing to watch how a company can destroy an entire industry overnight. Case in point is my local florist who is now gone – the last time I saw her she said...
Global Unrest is Tech's Fault
Protests, riots and flash mobs are popping up all over the world from Greece to London and Israel to the US. This past week we even saw a global stock market sell-off due to a Paris-based bank’s alleged financial problems...
Apple Market Cap, Cisco Earnings Beat and Amazon Sidesteps Apple
I am up in Mass visiting some companies in the area and doing a presentation on the state of communications and tech markets - so while I am offline feel free to visit other parts of the TMC network to...
Cablevision Brings TV to iPhones and iPods
A few months back, Cablevision released an iPad app allowing consumers to watch hundreds of channels and thousands of video on demand titles. How successful was it? Well it was downloaded more than 200,000 times making it one of the...
Adobe HTML5 Tool, Edge: What You Need to Know
An in-depth interview with Paul Gubbay, VP of, Design Web and Interactive at Adobe Systems The move to HTML5 is one of the most exciting developments I have seen in tech as it ties together cloud, mobile and the concept...
Anthropomorphized Ads Go Mainstream.
Anthropomorphism or assigning human characteristics to nonhuman objects is alive and well in the world of advertising. Perhaps the best example of advertisements which embody this technique are of the “Mac Vs. PC” variety where the Mac character is...
Living in a Post-OS World
Two of the major drawbacks to a perfect cloud-based existence where the browser serves all your needs are speed of remote apps/services and UI flexibility. It just so happens, two news items have coalesced recently to help usher in the...
iOS Allows Apple to Correct Microsoft "Mistake"
If you look back at the early days of Apple, Microsoft has been a major supplier to Cupertino's customers virtually from day one. Even today, Microsoft is the go to software provider for not only Macs but PCs. So whichever...
GigaOm Tells You Why HTML5 Will Be Huge
It is no secret that HTML5 is important - the question is how big will it be? Word is out at GigaOm, that it will be huge - and moreover it is coming fast. Thanks to an article from Colleen...
Have Apple Laptops Crossed the Enterprise Chasm?
What my Trip to Silicon Valley Taught me About AppleThere is constant debate about what the future is of Apple and Microsoft and after a trip to San Jose, CA this week where my company met with over 175 leading...
Metaswitch Thrutu iPhone App Lets Carriers Become Social Hubs
Earlier this year I came across Thrutu from Metaswitch newtorks - an application development platform allowing carriers to leverage rich social features and provide them as services to customers. In short, this is the exact sort of solution wireless phone...
Survey: Games Most Popular Smartphone Apps
And surprise, most people will pay for appsGames, weather and social networking apps are where people are spending a tremendous amount of their time followed by mapping, news, music and entertainment. These are the results of a new survey from...
Leaked RIM Letter: Apple Nailing us, Our Apps Suck
A leaked letter from a RIM worker discusses how the company is getting beat by Apple and how its apps are sub-par. Suggestions on how the company can improve include focusing on the user experiance, recruiting senior software leaders and...
Cisco Cius and the Need for an Enterprise Tablet
Cisco Cius Telepresence demo and presentation in New YorkYesterday I spent some time with Cisco learning about the new Cius tablet focused on the business market. The company has done its best to make this device a no-brainer purchase for...
How Cisco Needs to Sell the Cius Tablet
I'm on my way to New York to visit with Cisco and learn about the new Cius business tablet. The opportunity for Cisco here is huge as if it is able to sell large volumes of these devices, they can...
Microsoft, Apple & Twitter News June 27, 2011
It’s been a busy day in tech and communications news – so far these are a few of the stories worth knowing about: Microsoft needs to get larger? Scott Rothbort at TheStreet gives us eight companies Microsoft should buy –...
Why the iPad is Storming the Enterprise
What CXOs and technical decision-makers must know about the consumerization of ITIt is widely understood that Apple is a consumer company but the iPhone is taking huge marketshare from RIM and the iPad is becoming an indispensible tool in the...
Are Critics Too Pessimistic on RIM?
Obviously RIM has stumbled and the iPhone instantly changed the world of smartphones making fixed-keyboard devices less attractive. Moreover, the fact that the iPhone was more computer than email device opened up the market for serious web browsing and app...
Quad: The Death of E-mail and Cisco's Social Enterprise Ambitions
Quad moves to the cloud, has native Cius tablet support and offers better interoperability Last week I took a train into the city from TMC’s Connecticut HQ to spend time with the Cisco Quad collaboration team – using Cisco telepresence...
HTML5 Week in Review
Big Facebook, Financial Times and Acrobat HTML5 NewsFacebook declares war on Apple: Its only Thursday and this week has been a huge one so far with regards to HTML5 – with Facebook looking like it will have a new HTML5...
Jabra Freeway Bluetooth Speakerphone Really Rocks
Somehow when Jabra sent me their new Freeway car speakerphone it came to my house instead of my office and when I opened the box I thought ho-hum – a speakerphone and unceremoniously placed it in the pile of...
How Apple May Change the Face of Retail
A single executive defection from Apple - Ron Johnson who will become the new J.C. Penney president is responsible for a 5.11% jump in the retailer’s stock price. This has me wondering if investors believe that some of the Apple...
HTML5 Shines on New FT App
According to Ed Silverstein on TMCnet's sister site TechZone360, The Financial Times recently released a web app at app.ft.com based on HTML5 and in doing so has shown the Splinternet may be reversing course. As you may recall, I...
As if Publishers Didn't Have Enough Problems
TMCnet's Scott Bouchard points out something very scary for publishers and that is the face that the new Apple Reader has the potential to really hurt page view revenue based on ads as it strips the text of articles and...
