I have been writing about the coming increase in demand for Wi-Fi access from people walking around with iPhones, iPods, gaming devices and Wi-Fi enabled mobile phones. However, how many cities are gearing themselves up for this, especially for tourists and visiting business people?
I wrote a post on Muniwireless about what cities can do to [...]
Paul Bragiel, founder of Meetro, has just posted one of the best post-mortems I have read in a long time, explaining in great detail why Meetro, his location-aware instant messaging application, failed. Read about it here:
Anatomy Of A Failure: Lessons Learned
Very few entrepreneurs ever post anything like this. Many are embarrassed about their “failure” and [...]
The conventional wisdom is that Apple has only about 5 percent of the market for personal computers. It appears that if you break down that market two segments, the sub-$1000 and the $1000-plus, that Apple has a massive 66 percent of the market for expensive computers. That means people who have enough money spend, go [...]
I will admit that I love the printed word. I buy books, love glossy magazines with beautiful photos, especially love books and mags with gorgeous paper. Although I am a gadget freak and cannot live with the Internet, I still love print. So I think I will subscribe to this new quarterly magazine called Dispatches [...]
Andy Abramson reviews the IP communications landscape and surveys the Skype killer rumors, WiMAX and cable companies’ foray into wireless. He says (in part):
So here’s the way I see it. For the most part, the cable guys in the WiMax venture have the most to win because with the mobile WiMax play it gets them [...]