Internet Phones
Today’s Wall Street Journal story, "Web Phones Go Unplugged", summed it up pretty well. There is a convergence taking place between cell phones and Internet phones. Utopia has not quite arrived but at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas earlier this month there was a slew of new announcements surrounding Vonage, Skype, and various […]
Miscellany – 01-06-06
Just back from sunny Florida. When we left Palm Beach Gardens on Thursday it was 84 degrees and blue skies. It was a bit cooler when we got to Palm Coast and St. Augustine Beach. There was construction everywhere — condos, homes, malls, highways, and infrastructure. Seems like a "bubble" is a legitimate concern. The […]
The Internet Division
In the "old days" — ten years ago — we used to say that a month was three or four Internet months or that a year was three or four Internet years. It was a way of expressing how fast things were moving. Now that it has been ten years since the Internet Division was […]
A Chat With The SAC
In 1980, while serving as branch manager for IBM in Philadelphia, I had the occasion to visit a senior executive at one of our customers — The Campbell Soup Company in Camden, New Jersey. I don’t remember who I met with or what we talked about but I will never forget the executive’s secretary who […]
Power To The Penguin
As discussed here many times, grass roots movements such as the Internet and Linux are hard to stop. However, one of the impediments to very fast adoption of Linux as compared to just the fast adoption that is taking place has been the underlying threat of legal action to a user or vendor of Linux […]