Steve Ballmer said, "The internet was designed for the PC. The Internet was not designed for the iPhone." Let me tell you something, the internet wasn't "designed" for anything. It wasn't designed to handle voice, but it does,.

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Just read the news that Bloomberg is buying Business Week see here. According to the news, Bloomberg is paying $5M in cash plus the severances for 400 people. Lavishly assuming 3 months severance, at $10K/mo, that's another $12M of costs. That's..

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On mother's day we got a Kindle for my wife and she hasn't been able to live without it since. Thank you Amazon. In many more ways than one, it is a wonderful device, so good that it makes me debate whether every family member should have one....

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Last Saturday I was a panelist at the TABCON 2009 conference talking about mobile apps. It was a good panel where the last question was "can you give us an example of a radical mobile application". It was one of those open ended question that...

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I recently got this email sent by an office assistant to every employee in her company. I found it inspiring. People like the person behind this email make a difference between something remarkable and something ordinary. Enjoy the weekend & Happy...

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