The following is a list of rumored/obvious products that could be made today with available technology but haven’t been due to some marketing or other non-technical reason. We have the technology, we can build it, TODAY! In case an executive from any of these companie’s comes by (haha), just know that in the even these products were made available, I would camp out like an Apple fanboi to get one on the first day.
Top 5 ‘OH GOD YES’ Products That Should Be Marketed
July 20th, 2010 — Apple, Cameras, General, Phones, Rant, iPhone
Still no Bilski
June 21st, 2010 — Uncategorized
Another day of oppinions. Another day without SCOTUS deciding Bilski v. Kappos. What is the holdup? Is this because the court is trying to go out (of this term) with a bang? There are only 2 dates left (from what I’ve been told). It’s becoming more and more likely that this will be the ultimate opinion authored by Justice Stevens. It seems the longer it takes to get an opinion the more likely that some fundamental shift is coming.
iPhone 4
June 7th, 2010 — Apple, Phones, Technology, Uncategorized, iPhone
Well the blogosphere just came to a halt for nearly 2 hours. The iPhone 4 has been announced and demoed in glorious detail. It looks pretty swanky. The details:
- 300ppi 960×640 screen (largest on a 3.5″ device)
- .37″ Thick
- Increased battery life
- Front & Back Camera
- Antenna built into the body
- Gyroscope
What was not announced
- No Verizon (more on that after the break)
- No increase in capacities
All in all a big (and mostly non-disappointing) announcement
Patent Fun
May 25th, 2010 — Apple, Google, IP, Programming, Technology
It was only a matter of time. Nero AG, a German company responsible for the popular Nero Burning software suite that has ballooned to such incredible bloatware that it now includes integrated transcoding and a media player. Of course when video is involved that means MPEG LA is involved. MPEG LA is the licensing consortium responsible for the MPEG2 and MPEG 4 H.264 codec’s patent pools. Nero is alleging anti-trust and patent abuse violations. With MPEG LA now being assaulted on multiple fronts with the release of WebM by Google, we could be seeing the beginning of a full scale nuclear war between the major software players that, just like nuclear war in the real world, can only end in mutual destruction.
Fundamental Flaw with Chase Remote Banking
May 21st, 2010 — Banking, Rant, Security, Technology
I found a charge this morning on my bank account statement. I called to report the activity and the customer ’service’ agents seemed sketchy as hell. They started by asking for my social security number. This is not an ID number. You don’t have the authorization to use it as such. They ask for my account number. Ok, not a big deal. Just a string of numbers. They ask for my name. I give them my first. They ask for my last. I provide it. But by this point I’m feeling a bit unsecure, and it just gets worse. Continue reading →
Finally, Somebody ‘Gets Me’
May 4th, 2010 — Apple, Programming, Storage, Technology
A guy with way too much cash and an obviously patient wife in NYC has built the dream apartment. Through the help of a custom home installer he was able to conceive and execute what might possibly be the perfect home. The winner of the Electronic House Gold Medal for Integrated House of the Year in the $50k+ category this thing likely cost about 10 times that or more. I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that it was a million plus. Click through to see some photos and some choice excepts from the article.
Big Ten; Vissionary or Villain
April 22nd, 2010 — Basketball, Sports
Jim Delaney is looking to add to the Big Ten. The conference currently has 11 teams and is arguably the most financially successful conference across all sports due to the SEC’s relative weakness in Basketball and the Big Easts weakness in football. The Big Ten’s cable network offerings are an incredible cash cow that means that each member school gets paid more for a saturday afternoon football game share on the network than Notre Dame gets from NBC, even though Notre Dame can eat the whole pie. However, as the Big Ten looks to merge into a super conference some are questioning that the moves may not be in College Sports’ Best Interest.
This just in: Paying Taxes Sucks
April 15th, 2010 — Rant
It’s that time of year. April 15th. The deadline for filing taxes in the United States. Or the last day before summer break if you’re a CPA. The news is filled with tax stories about procrastinators and tips of where to get your envelopes stamped so you can mail your returns on time. Shocker, we do this every year, maybe you should figure it out by now. As annoying as these news stories are, they aren’t the most annoying thing about early April. The most annoying thing is the people bitching about taxes.
Oh Apple!
April 9th, 2010 — Apple, Programming, Technology
Big scuttlebut in the news last night about the press event that Apple held to announce their new iPhone OS 4.0. NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, MSNBC, New York Times, FoxNews and all the major tech publications were all over it. Obviously everyone is intrigued/excited about the major feature announcements including:
- Multitasking
- Enhanced Mail
- App Folders
- GameCenter
- iAd
- iBooks
- New Enterprise Security Enhancements
- More than 1500 new APIs and
- a host of customizable user features and wallpapers!
But there are a few subtle changes in the licensing that is going to piss off some developers and more likely some big third parties that are banking on tieing their tools into the Apple ecosystem.
Apple iAD
April 8th, 2010 — Apple, Technology
So Steve just unleashed another major revenue stream on the world: iAd. They are coming for Google. iAd is a mobile ad network that is giving apple some serious skin in the mobile ad game. Some interesting questions abound and we may see the FTC show up and spoil Apple’s fun.