Archives for January 2006
Riya has just raised $15M from Bay Partners. Not sure what their pre-money valuation would have been. A few months ago, the rumour was that Google was going to acquire the company for $40M, and it’s in the public domain that Microsoft passed on a deal at some price (probably below this), because [...]
As well as the Intel-based laptop rumours doing the rounds, the other story is that tomorrow Apple will introduce a genuine competitor to Microsoft’s Media Center product at the Macworld Expo during the Steve Jobs keynote. Now, some battles in the world of the PC have already been won. If we’re talking [...]
Guy Kawaski’s latest post - The Top Ten Lies of Entrepreneurs (following up his top ten lies of VCs) - had me laughing out loud! OK, that’s partly because I misread his Lie No. 2:
Every entrepreneur has a few slides about how the market potential for his segment is tens of billions. It doesn’t [...]
The consensus seems to be that Steve Jobs will introduce at least one brand new Apple laptop product at his Macworld keynote presentation in a couple of days. The rumours are that the product(s) will be the first Intel-based Apple hardware.
Some people are betting on a new low-end product that will aim [...]
Bred Feld points to a great post by Guy Kawasaki entitled - The Top Ten Lies of Venture Capitalists. It’s very useful for entrepreneurs that haven’t dealt much with VCs.
And to complement Guy’s post, here’s my Single Truth of Venture Capitalists:
If the VC isn’t chasing you after your first meeting, what you have [...]
What is going on?! And I quote from a joint Motorola/Google press release :
Motorola and Google today announced a global alliance… Motorola will integrate a Google icon onto select devices.
And yet again, I’m forced to wonder! Motorola will put a button, sporting a Google logo, on some of their handsets. Pressing this [...]
Yahoo! with all its resources, has managed to develop their “Yahoo! Go Mobile” system for mobile phones based on Nokia’s Series 60 platform (which is actually called S60 these days). Sometimes I wonder… I really do.
I don’t have a S60 handset. Well I do. But I don’t use it, because, right now [...]
Google has just announced a downloadable software bundle called Google Pack. It’s billed as an “essential” bundle of “safe, useful software” for your computer, that is “simple to download and install”. The bundle includes some Google software (Google Earth, Google Desktop, Picasa, Google Toolbar for IE, Google Pack Screensaver); and non-Google software (Firefox [...]
Now that people are starting to understand that picture quality isn’t a killer feature of the next generation disc formats Blu-ray and HD DVD (because upscaled DVD is good enough), arguments are starting to rage over what the “next” killer feature of the new formats might be.
I’ve said that I don’t think there is [...]
If you didn’t believe me when I wrote that there are few, if any, significant benefits to consumers in adopting the new Blu-ray and HD DVD formats, check out what the early adopter geek crowd is saying.
These people are early adopters of new technology. They have already bought HD televisions and think they’re great. [...]