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Apple has many proprietary products too. Though the operating system for the iPhone, iPod and iPad is proprietary, we strongly believe that all standards pertaining to the web should be open. Rather than use Flash, Apple has adopted HTML5, CSS … Continue reading →

Earlier this month, I glued together two neat apps using parts supplied by two different VoiceXML unified communications companies. The first lets me call in to a VoXMLPHP script hosted by Tropo, which then interprets my voice commands and reads … Continue reading →

Last week David Pogue, The New York Times technology reporter, was perplexed (in a good way) that his local cable company, Cablevision, had been setting up free WiFi hotspots during the last year in the tri-state area (NY,NJ, CT).   Pogue’s … Continue reading →

I wasn’t a big fan of Michael Lewis’s Liar’s Poker. His too-cool-for-school pose turned me off and his core philosophy was that any investment bank who would hire him must be a joke. And he really, really wanted to work … Continue reading →

Were you distracted by iPad mania and overlook this year’s Emerging Communications Conference that was held this week in San Francisco?  I did.  eComm is the successor to the short lived  O’Reilly  eTel conference. The talks and presentations all looked … Continue reading →

That is if you think having your pictures on the cover of trend-spotting New York Magazine means you’ve made it here in NYC, then yes Silicon Alley is a force. Actually,  the writer of the article, Doree Shafrir, got it … Continue reading →

Perusing Apple’s quarterly earnings and commentary, I am almost moved to tears. This is unusual, I know, to feel the romance of strategy and long-term planning, more so than of the iPad per se; to root for the game plan, … Continue reading →

I’d like to put aside, permanently, the debate about the correct classification of cable service, which has been argued in the courts for years.  In fact,  the underlying question—what is digital communications—has been endlessly and unproductively analyzed in legal and regulatory … Continue reading →

John Cleese takes £3,300 taxi across Europe to beat ash flight chaos