By Mark Evans In many ways, the sale of Radian6 was just a matter of time. As a leading player in the fast-growing social media monitoring business, Radian6 was a big target for anyone looking to quickly establish a strong foothold. So when Salesforce.com rolled in with a $326-million offer, it wasn’t much of a […]
Science and Tech
Xoom vs iPad 2
By Eric Pettifor A couple of posts ago I wrote of the Motorola Xoom tablet, extolling its virtues while trying to convince myself that I don’t need one. And truly, I don’t. My little netbook is all the portable computing I really need. What I might want, and might actually get (if it was in […]
Final Total for F-35?
by Eric Pettifor When buying an SLR camera, the price of the unit is not the entire cost. Will you need additional lenses? Tripod? Camera case/bag? Filters? Additional media? Apparently it’s the same thing when buying fighter jets. You can’t just buy 65 F-35 fighter jets and think that’s the end of it, especially if […]
I don’t need a tablet. Repeat.
by Eric Pettifor Okay, I’m starting to want a tablet. No, not the iPad for which I expressed my underwhelmedness back in February of 2010, but the Motorola Xoom to be released this quarter, perhaps even as soon as next month. What’s so great about the Xoom? Well, if you’re one of those who have […]
In 2011, less tech is more
By Mark Evans In 2011, less is going to be more . . . and that’s a good thing. It’s a decision that comes on the heels of a happily hectic 2010 in which my business surged ahead, and a number of other projects (including the mesh conference) consumed time. It was a great year […]
The Chrome revolution has been postponed
by Eric Pettifor Last year at this time I predicted that a small revolution in web apps would occur in 2010, thanks to the introduction of Google Chrome OS, and may have implied that this would have a negative effect on the iPhone. I also expressed the opinion that, if all went well with the […]
Little Cams: Fatty Beats Flatty
by Eric Pettifor Back in May I wrote a review of the Samsung U10 Pocket Camcorder, concluding “Because of the interface, I would only recommend this sweet little horror if you need something small and cheap which produces high quality vids right now.” Time has passed, and I had the opportunity to look at a […]
Blekko me
By Mark Evans After a lot of hype and venture capital, Blekko launched today. For those of you not familiar with Blekko, it’s a new search engine that, like most of the search start-ups in recent years, has been billed as a new threat to Google. While I haven’t had much of a chance to […]
Beware the Evercookie!
by Eric Pettifor Yea, though ye have taken to heart the teaching that all men shall be as friendly smurfs one unto another, know that not all smurfs are as they seem, and trust no one. I believe that’s from the Book of Ecclesiastes. Or possibly Saturday morning cartoons. X-Files? It’s hard to keep things […]
Vinyl resurgent
By Eric Pettifor A little over three years ago, I wrote here about converting vinyl records to digital audio files. I suggested the eBay record section as a source for vinyl, and noted that, at time of writing, there were 151,436 listings. At this time of writing, there are 2,274,791. What gives? According to Lucas […]
