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The $200 million Facebook wall post

Ronald O Carlson — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:04:42 +0000

The big news of last week was the announcement of Facebook’s initial public offering (IPO) and the 1,000-plus soon to be minted millionaires that will result. Perhaps the most unlikely of these is David Choe, the guy that took options in lieu of payment for a bawdy wall mural he painted in Facebook’s [...] Related posts:

Let’s play Phone Stack and enjoy our dinner

Susan Wilson — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:00:00 +0000

Being addicted to your cell phone is not uncommon. Many of us have [...] Related posts:

Android users get busy in bathroom

Ronald O Carlson — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:38:51 +0000

Here’s a powerful realization for you to act upon — if you don’t take your expensive, absolutely life critical smartphone into the bathroom, it can’t fall into the toilet. Seriously, keep your business out of your business. That said, though iPhone owners are somewhat less likely to diddle in the loo, smartphone users [...] Related posts:

Now who’s biggest? Apple blows by HP

Ronald O Carlson — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:57:48 +0000

Whoa, nelly. Previously, analysts predicted that Apple’s Mac + iPad computers sales would make it the world’s largest “PC” vendor sometime within the first six months of 2012. So much for those rosy expectations — who thought that the Cupertino, California company would double tablet sales last quarter.

Yesterday, Apple reported its [...] Related posts:

Crap singer unveils crap robot at CES 2012

Dave Parrack — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 05:48:59 +0000

There have been a few trends emerging at CES. One of which is the celebrity endorsement. Justin Bieber is surely the perfect choice to unveil an ugly piece of garbage that flails its arms and legs while trying to [...] Related posts:

Money? We don’t need your stinking money

Ronald O Carlson — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 20:20:16 +0000

So, you’ve created a startup with a great product and you want to grow the business and you need money — then it’s time to find a venture capitalist to get funding, right? Actually, not necessarily. A British entrepreneur has done it all old school, expanding into three countries with scores of employees, [...] Related posts:

File-sharing an official religion, in Sweden

Dave Parrack — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 02:45:11 +0000

Sweden is either a forward-thinking country or a country where any crackpot can get a new religion officially recognized. It all depends on your point of view.

Anyone can start a religion, if they can persuade enough people to join [...] Related posts:

Wendi Deng Twitter fake gets verified

Dave Parrack — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 02:40:31 +0000

Twitter seriously needs to rethink its account verification policy, whatever that policy may be. Otherwise more Wendi Deng-style fakes will sneak through.

In its early days Twitter was awash with fake accounts. Anyone could bag themselves an @username as long [...] Related posts:

RIM’s latest irrational Playbook moment

Ronald O Carlson — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 13:50:02 +0000

When Research in Motion started selling their tablet, they declared that “amateur hour” was over. Never mind that the Playbook didn’t then and still doesn’t have native email, calendar and contact apps. Since then things have gone from bad to worse as sales tanked and inventories built. But don’t think their foolishness is [...] Related posts:

Java ME-powered dumb phones overtake Android

Ronald O Carlson — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 01:00:04 +0000

Here is a theme that just keeps coming up again and again that begs an in depth examination. “Smartphones” running some older, often jurassic version of Android – how many devices offer Ice Cream Sandwich? — just aren’t showing up in web metrics, mobile commerce or otherwise generating the kind of data that [...] Related posts: