Jeff Nolan's take on innovation, entrepreneurship, tech and stuff that interests me
This translates into a subsidy worth as much as $120 ($40 a month for unlimited t-mobile hotspot access if you are not a t-mobile subscriber). So basically, if you use the hotspots at Starbucks a lot, upgrading to Vista actually saves you $20 ($99 for the upgrade) assuming nothing else gets jammed up in the [...]
Waters is right to point to the sea shift that is underway at these large software technology companies, a shift away from big traumatic software upgrades to more frequent component bumps. The points that are often missed in these debates is that the focus on the customer obscures the fact that the companies themselves don’t [...]
Props to Jason for coining a very cool new term – regressive complexity. He is absolutely correct, SaaS pricing is getting too complex which means the title of his post could easily have been “the more things change, the more they stay the same”. SaaS’ early popularity was a function of 1) it’s dramatically lower [...]
This is some cool news on OpenID, the open source identity technology. I first became aware of this through Zooomr and thought it was a very consumer friendly approach to identity management that got beyond the dreaded “what is my username again?” moment we often have. There are many password vault solutions on the market [...]
This article in the WaPo is really interesting. The key factor that affects driving habits isn’t population density, public transit availability, gasoline taxes or even different attitudes. It’s wealth.
Yesterday was the 40th anniversary of the fire that destroyed the Apollo 1 spacecraft, killing astronauts Virgil Grissom, Roger Chaffee, and Ed White. After the fire NASA spent 2 years investigating, improving the program, and appearing before Congress to justify the program. A divided Congress, the civil rights movement, the war in Vietnam, and much [...]
I have to give credit to Sony for taking a disaster and making it even worse. Not only do they have substantially less demand than they manufactured for when they launched the product, but in the UK they aren’t even bothering to make the price close to the U.S. meaning UK gamers will pay over [...]
I thought I would check in on Aboutus.org after writing a pretty negative post about the company last November. Considering how the lipsticking article that spurred my original post focused on Alexa rankings as a proxy for success, it made sense to see how that was going. Aboutus is not a bad idea, it’s just [...]
Regardless of where you stand on illegal immigration and any proposed reforms, you have to admit that it’s jaw dropping that the big operation recently conducted in California by federal authorities to capture and deport criminal illegals targeted, of all places, jails. Yes, out of the 700+ people captured and detained by the federal authorities [...]