REAL SILLY The following op-ed piece in the San Francisco Chronicle is worth some attention involving an initiative called RealDVD* by Real Networks.  Titled the "Movie industry's shortsighted fight", it explains: "Thomas Edison, probably America's best-known and most prominent inventor of all time...

TOTAL HIT Like so many iPhone geeks, I'd been waiting for this long-anticipated game to be released and it doesn't disappoint.  IGN has a review that puts it in context and explains: "A few years ago, an oft-asked question at mobile games conferences was, "Where is mobile's Mario?" It was essential...

STOP TO SMELL A ROSE Use something several times a day, everyday for half a decade or more, and you can't but help take it a bit for granted.  I'm talking here about Google Search, which so many of us have become so addicted to in living our daily lives. For that reason alone, it's interesting ...

MULTI-TASKING NO NOs ABC News ran a story on a recent silicon valley trend with the titillating title "Going Topless to Office Meetings", wisely adding the sub-title, "Why Silicon Valley employees are going to meetings Laptop-less". Here's the gist: "In the headquarters of D...

BESPOKE BLOG POSTS HERE As I highlighted a few weeks ago, I've been blogging here consistently for over three years now, and it's been a terrific experience thus far.  I've tried from the beginning to hopefully have something interesting to say and/or point to in a post every single day. That's...

TRUE TO FORM So much for the wireless carriers paying lip-service to being "open".  TechCrunch reports T-mobile apparently has started to block Twitter, the popular messaging application (especially amongst the geek set): "A T-Mobile representative replied to a customer’s servi...