I have to say, with all due respect to other conference organizers that Lee Dryburgh and his band of advisors, led by the likes of Jon Arnold, Dan York, Brough Turner, Phil Wolff, Alan Duric and others really worked hard to make this year's eComm the best ever. When we ended after three days at six ...

Yesterday I spoke with an upcoming reporter named Jason Hahn from Northwestern Universities Journalism program at Medill, one of the nations better J-Schools. I have an open door policy for students, and even lecture from time to time as without my college experiences at Temple University, and lots ...

Personal computers are complex, beastly machines compared to plug-and-play devices like a DVD player or a TiVo. Cirgon’s Encore Digital Media Server is the latest attempt to tame the animal and reduce it to an acquiescent consumer electronics product. The Encore has more than a few whiz-bang f...

Back in January I crafted my Telco 2.0 scouting report. It included the people whom I felt were the some of the brightest minds in telco who were "available" in the "draft" because the were either not aligned with any one company or they were about to become "free agents" in the same way that colleg...

Onlangs las ik in tbm een interview met Jeanine van der Vlist (CEO van Worldmax), waarin ze vertelde dat WiMAX de nieuwe standaard wordt. Als een blij kind deed ik een sprongetje van vreugde, aangezien ik hier al geruime tijd op wacht. Inmiddels is heel Amsterdam al in staat om online te gaan via ee...

For those of us who travel, access to proper Internet connectivity is not a luxury item. It’s not an amenity like a bathrobe in the room, nor is it something to be taken lightly. Let’s face it. We have wine snobs (guilty here), water snobs (guilty here too) and travel snobs (guilty as charged) s...

Former Valleywag consigliere Paul Boutin offers up a handful of great, low-tech fixes to your high-tech gadget issues. One of them involves getting your cellphone away from your warm pocket to boost its battery life. Photo by hsiqueira. If you're planning to be away from your charger for a stretch, ...

Is it any wonder that sales of netbooks are on the rise? The Guardian posted this at the start of the week and I’ve had the tab open in Firefox since then to write about this. The features race on the regular desktop market has been over for a while. The increases in CPU speed and memory don;t aff...

Clearly this does not matter to Luxor. I mean… as of this writing, it’s been viewed less than 250 times. It’s not going to impact their sales in any meaningful way, right? And who’s this Berkowitz guy anyway? Some loser who comes to Vegas for the WiFi? Yea. This penny ante st...

If there's a must-have mobile technology this year, that's Bluetooth over Wi-Fi. Easy-to-establish, peer-to-peer Bluetooth connectivity seamlessly coupled with Wi-Fi speeds. As the video shows, the......