Blu-Ray and HD-DVD Prices Plummet, Crickets Chirp

What’s more interesting, that high definition DVD players have suddenly plummeted in price or that nobody seems to care. Maybe the reason that the prices have gone off the cliff is that consumers don’t actually care… high def DVD is the new laserdisc.

Syria blocks Facebook access

The people have Syria can sleep safe tonight. Rumor has it that everyone’s start page was set to dilbert.com in order to quell the masses.

Syrian authorities have blocked Facebook, the popular Internet hangout, over what seems to be fears of Israeli “infiltration” of Syrian social networks on the Net, according to residents and [...]

Wifi on Planes, Bout Time

To borrow a phrase from Brad Feld, American can now legitimately claim that they suck less.

Starting next year, transcontinental 767-200s will be equipped with Wi-Fi and broadband access via Aircell, who has a similar deal in place with Virgin Airlines. The technology has been around for awhile, and I must say “It’s about [...]

SPAM Not Just A Meat By Law

The future of spam is now certain given that the owners of the Spam trademark lost their case against SpamArrest.

A Date Which Will Live in Infamy

Today is Pearl Harbor Day.

While the various oral history projects seek to capture the history of WWII in that generation’s own words and spoken voice, the fact remains that their numbers are dwindling and Pearl Harbor Day is but a far away historical event to many generations today, indeed it is somewhat telling that the [...]

Wikis and Spammers

My blog has been offline for a little over the last hour with a message stating that “this account has been suspended”.

Upon reaching Bluehost.com support via chat I was told that someone was using my Tikiwiki site to run scripts and because of the excessive CPU usage my account was suspended and deactivated. It was [...]

The Experts

Michael Dukakis, a former Massachusetts governor, says he’s “baffled” why Barack Obama’s campaign has not turned his grass-roots following into a more powerful ground organization.

Because if there’s anyone you want to call on for campaign advice, Dukakis would be on that shortlist considering the bang up job he did in 1988.

Maybe get Walter [...]

Tesla ousts co-founder Eberhard

There’s no Christmas cheer over at Tesla Motors this week, it’s rare that to see things become this public.

On a related note, and in the interests of full disclosure I don’t have any confirmation of this, but I heard the delay in delivering the cars had to do not only with the additional engineering for [...]

New Media and Politics

It would be nothing new to write about how new media has changed politics, indeed the first bloggers were techies who were also political junkies. But something really cool happened today that should frighten network executives in deep dark places they don’t like to talk about at cocktail parties, Mitt Romney delivered a major speech [...]

VC Trends

I was at one of the Dealmaker Strategy Series events last night. Lot’s of talk about a bubble, some agreement that if there is a bubble it’s almost certainly in clean tech. LOL.

Lot’s of grumbling about Facebook being valued at $15 billion and “how could Microsoft do this to us?”. Let’s be clear about something, [...]

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