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I recently tried a silicon oracle called GetGlue.  I’m genuinely impressed at how racks of CPUs can quickly navigate through an enormous knowledge graph and grab a suggestion node that matches some characteristic of my preferences. Great searching capabilities, but I’m … Continue reading →

Magic Trackpad: “Swipe me!” For the record, I do most of my work on a MacBook Pro.  One reason I was able to break the spell cast by Dell and live happily ever after in Steve Jobs land is the … Continue reading →

There actually was some significant news last week in the technoverse, and it didn’t involve another episode from Mark Zuckerberg’s reality show: on July 16, Google purchased Metaweb, the semantic database company and the force behind the freewheeling Freebase. No … Continue reading →

Fred Wilson, managing partner of Union Square Ventures (Foursquare), recently called Apple an evil company. The reason?  “They believe they know what is best for you and me. And I think that is evil.” It’s a definition of evil I … Continue reading →

Our analysis of broadband subscribership data and the broadband availability model constructed for the National Broadband Plan indicates that while a substantial majority of Americans have access to broadband connections capable of “originat[ing] and receiv[ing] high-quality voice, data, graphics, and … Continue reading →

On Tuesday, the FCC released its sixth annual report, as required by law, on the state of US broadband. Their conclusion:”… broadband deployment to all Americans is not reasonable and timely.”  This differs from the five preceding reports. The reason … Continue reading →

Why not see three of the newest smartphones during a hot Saturday in NYC? Since the Apple store on Upper Broadway is a five-minute walk from where the Samsung Galaxy S was receiving visitors in the Time Warner building, we could hop from one air-conditioned venue to another without getting broiled. Along the way we could also check out the Motoria Droid at a cell phone shack. It seemed like a good idea when my friend, let’s call him Dr. Smartphone, suggested it. He was anxious to see how Galaxy’s 4” super AMOLED 800x400 display performed, and I had yet to gaze upon the iPhone 4. Continue reading →

Junction Networks is a hosted PBX app provider that lets startups and small businesses pull a VoIP phone systems out of thin air or, more accurately, out of the cloud.  The company was founded in 2004, and open standards were … Continue reading →

The FCC just posted an ex parte filing from Google in which the search giant makes it feelings on net neutrality and Title II reclassification crystal clear. Here’s the money quote: “The FCC needs to assert affirmative oversight and enforcement … Continue reading →