So according to Business Insider Apple just had a "staggering" quarter. Not really surprising. Here's why. A long time ago in a place not too far away a bunch of geeks that I respect a great deal told me to make the switch to Mac as OS X was a Unix based operating system. I […]
Continue reading →Two weeks ago I was asked by The Atlanta Business Chronicle to identify tech trends in Atlanta in 2011. I provided six. The first one is below. 1. Liquidity events return. A few companies could see significant exits via acquisitions or IPOs (Silverpop, SecureWorks, Vendormate) Many smaller firms will be acquired by larger corporations looking […]
Continue reading →Today is a pretty important day for the Internet. FCC Chairman Julius Geneachoski has asked for his organization to adopt rules to protect the open Internet. Net neutrality rules. The draft rules that Geneachoski is proposing have not been seen in public but I do believe something needs to be done. The reason why I […]
Continue reading →For quite some time I have known that I was going to vote No on Amendment 1 on election day next Tuesday. I have kept pretty quiet about this personal decision. I tend to stay away from politics on FoG. The combination of a well funded vote Yes campaign complete with robocalls and an article […]
Continue reading →So I was standing next to this friend of mine the other night when he casually mentioned that he might be joining the board of Barnes & Noble. My first reaction. Dude, the Nook has no chance. No one talks about the Nook. No one uses the Nook. I sit in a Barnes & Noble […]
Continue reading →The hordes waiting in line for hours today to get that new iPhone 4 make it hard to believe that Apple is losing share in the smartphone market. But as I wrote last week, they are and they will continue to do so. Those hordes are merely trading up, not increasing iPhone share one bit. […]
Continue reading →So yesterday, according to The New York Times, Apple took about 600k in new iPhone orders. Rock on. At about $200 a pop that is about $120 million in revenue plus whatever the AT&T sub happens to be. Most likely three x that or $360 mill in total. Not bad for a day when you are […]
Continue reading →"I think people are willing to pay for content. I believe it for music and video, and I believe it for the media." Steve Jobs Steve made the comment at D8 […]
Continue reading →I have been involved in the Internet industry a long time. Much much longer than most people reading this ever heard of Netscape. Much much longer than most people reading this have been online. Well a long time ago in a place far far away the evil empire with its death star logo known as […]
Continue reading →Last night was the airing of American Idol's initial auditions that were held at the Midtown W in Atlanta. The kids love the the show so we were having a little family TV time. As I was watching I was amazed by how much the first round of American Idol is like advising early stage […]
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