Archive for December, 2009
SHOCK! Microsoft cancels Courier tablet (as I predicted)
Gizmodo reported today that the Microsoft Courier Tablet project has been canceled. The report must have been particularly bitter for Gizmodo, as the blog was first to uncover the project and referred to it many times as one that would ship Real Soon Now.
whether Gizmodo wants to see why Microsof…
Why cell phone companies are throwing lawyers at each other
Microsoft announced this week that it has inked a deal with Taiwan-based High-Tech Computing (HTC). Under the agreement, HTC will pay royalties to Microsoft for phones that run Google’s Android platform. Wait, what? whether Google’s platform violates Microsoft’s intellectual property, why doesn…
Cell phone has a built-in electric razor
The Shave Mobile is a cell phone with a built-in razor. No, it’s not a gag gift, but a real product built by Tondemoketai China that you can buy for $100. Here comes the video!
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iPhone cradle looks like an old-school landline phone
Someone is selling on the Etsy catalog hand-made iPhone bases that
look like old-fashioned landline phones. They come in a variety of
styles, and cost only $15. Useful only as a charging and syncing
cradle, they’re as function-limited as they are pointless.
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Worst cell phone design ever
Anyone know the story behind that one?
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Me talking about cloud computing and trust on BBC
BBC Click’s Ian Hardy interviewed me on the promises and perils of cloud computing for BBC go — 275 million viewers worldwide! They plus wrote an article to accompany the TV segment.
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Gadget shows the cost of meetings in real duration.
I just wrote a column that week about the gazillions of dollars companies waste on pointless, unfocused meetings (among other things). My solution is to replace some of those meetings with social networking tools. But here’s another solution: Bring TIM! is a $24.99 real-time meeting cost calculator….
Mystery Pic 118: What is it?
What is it? Post your guess in the comments section below. compose certain you give your whole name and the city you live in! whether you’re first with the right reply, you’ll earn the dubious honor of getting mentioned in the Mike’s List newsletter! (The reply will be revealed exclusively in th…
Old-school handset turns iPad into a telephone
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Gadget shows the cost of meetings in real duration. Brilliant!
I just wrote a column that week about the gazillions of dollars companies waste on pointless, unfocused meetings (among other things). My solution is to replace some of those meetings with social networking tools. But here’s another solution: Bring TIM! is a $24.99 real-time meeting cost calculator….
