Letting videogamers grow up to be doctors. Balmer blames pirates. Former IBM employee blames his friend’s death on his sex addiction.

February 20, 2007

It’s not the first time we’ve heard about the benefits of playing video games, but every time there is a story we have to mention it to offer defense to all the 12 year olds out there that have to suffer the complaints of their parents screaming, “You’re never going to make anything of your […]

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Fox’s response to The Daily Show. Ouch.

February 15, 2007

The funniest discussion online has to be around Fox News’ “1/2 Hour Comedy Hour.” It’s their right wing response to The Daily Show. BTW, it’s such an obvious copy that the set, colors, and opening are all identical. Guys, change one thing. I mean, give us a reason not to see the obvious comparisons. I […]

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Get over yourselves Digg users

February 15, 2007

A lot of discussion online for Yahoo!’s “Suggestion Board,” a recommendation site on a variety of subjects that uses a Digg-like voting mechanism. Digg is a site where users recommend news stories by “digging” and then those stories that get the most “diggs” rise to the top. Well, Yahoo! isn’t the first to steal this […]

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Beatles music online? Intel does a teraflop. Barack Obama’s online dating site.

February 13, 2007

Been talking about the rumor of the Beatles catalog being available on iTunes soon. Well that rumor is heating up and it appears their music will be available for digital download, but across all the sites, like Rhapsody and Yahoo! Music. It won’t just be exclusively iTunes even for a limited time. I don’t normally […]

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Symantec creates a Catch-22 for Microsoft claiming its security behavior is a "conflict of interest."

February 8, 2007

At the RSA Conference San Francisco, a conference about online security, John Thompson, CEO of Symantec took a swipe at Microsoft for trying to be all things to all people. Chronically bundling services, and new applications into its operating system has been a pattern for each subsequent upgrade of Microsoft Windows. Vista has many new […]

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Jobs the leading voice on anti-DRM?

February 8, 2007

Steve Jobs wants to end Digital Rights Management, also known as DRM. In an open letter to the tech community he explains his rationale outlining three possible courses of action for the music industry: keep the status quo, let Apple license its form of DRM, FairPlay, more widely, or essentially abolish DRM completely. Jobs argues […]

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No one will be rushing to Wal-Mart’s online video store

February 6, 2007

In the early years of technology, it was the slow pace of innovation that prevented us from getting cool entertainment and content on our PCs and media devices. In the early 1980s, it simply wasn’t possible to stream high bandwidth video to your computer. Today, the problem is not innovation, but the fact that the […]

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DEMO vs. TechCrunch20

February 1, 2007

Today is the last day of the DEMO conference in Palm Desert, CA. It’s a showcase of 70 new companies, today often Web 2.0 companies. It’s a very exclusive conference. It is the place to be seen. Stealing some thunder from the conference was the announcement from power bloggers, Jason Calcanis and Michael Arrington, of […]

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Vista will succeed, but not immediately. And getting on the YouTube payroll.

January 30, 2007

Vista launch day. 20 countries. $500 million in ad dollars. The trick is can Microsoft’s “Wow” ad campaign surpass the tepid reviews and the five year build cycle for an operating system that nobody can clearly explain why you should get it. New operating systems traditionally boost both the hardware and software market significantly, setting […]

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ContentNext Party

January 27, 2007

I attended the ContentNext Party in SF last night. It’s the company that publishes a few blogs on content, led by Rafat Ali. PaidContent and MocoNews are daily must reads for me. And obviously I’m not the only one. There were between 500-600 people there last night. Quite a crowd. Anyway, I was able to […]

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