Motorola’s new Google-Ga-Ga baby monitors? Google’s planned buy of Motorola Mobility is about patents and the war of mutual destruction in the mobile space. We get that, but it’s also about connected TV and carriers and how the convergence of broadband and data will change our lives. And so I found myself thinking about...
Bravo Google, well played. There’s no denying that Google’s maneuver this morning to acquire Motorola for $12.5 billion in cash is remarkable. Everyone is talking about every possible angle of the deal, as they should. The summertime is usually the doldrums when it comes to tech news. Not this year. Google is pulling off an acquisition that is...
Since shutting down cell service on Thursday to try to quell rumored protests which never came to fruition, the Bay Area Transit Authority (BART) has had an interesting weekend and Monday. Aside from getting investigated by the FCC as to whether it exceeded its authority in shutting off cellphones, the myBART website has been hacked...
This post is part of our ReadWriteCloud channel, which is dedicated to covering virtualization and cloud computing. The channel is sponsored by Intel and VMware. Read the white paper about how Intel Xeon processors help organizations get unprecedented levels of performance. Several vendors are increasing their feature sets to make it easier to manage...
Microsoft announced today that it will discontinue its Microsoft Reader e-book service. New e-books in its LIT format will be discontinued on November 8, and the app itself will be unavailable effective August 30, 2012, although existing customers will still be able to access it. Reader has been around since 2000, long before the...
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On Monday at 5PM PDT, protesters at San Francisco’s Civic Center BART station prompted the closure of one of the city’s busiest transit stations, after an unpermitted march drew large crowds. The civil action was been organized by Anonymous, the hacktivist group who yesterday released the names of several thousand BART passengers, after hacking...
The majority of Time Warner Cable’s subscribers and the bulk of its revenue still come from its traditional pay TV service, but that is changing — and fast. As a result, the company is betting on broadband to lead it into the future, due to wider adoption of high-speed data services at the same...
Although it’s widely recognized that people are spending more time and money on the Internet than ever before, the money spent on online advertising is not even close to the stratospheric spending levels poured into TV ads. But thanks to a new product from Nielsen and Facebook, the Internet could become a first-class citizen...
There was a wonderful conversation two weeks ago on the NY Times’ Room for Debate around “Can New York Rival Silicon Valley.” As someone who spent two years in 2003 and 2004 in NYC selling technology to Wall St trading firms and having my friends and clients wonder what this whole startup thing was...
The battle between Android and iPhone has been hectic indeed. I’ve been in more than enough friendly debates with friends over which smartphone device works better than the other that I could probably fill pages upon pages with reasons. Opinions vary according to each individual user, of course, and many times, you’ll find that...