Archives for June 2008
When Mike Arrington posted a story on Techcrunch today, saying that he has heard from multiple sources that Microsoft and Yahoo! are back in talks about a full acquisition, Yahoo!’s shareprice jumped. According to Techcrunch, Microsoft is planning to offer something lower than than previous best offer of $33 per share.
What will that new offer [...]
Details of the O2 packages for iPhone 3G in the UK are starting to emerge. The packages look fantastic compared to the previous deals. Here are the details for the UK:
Pay monthly
iPhone 3G 8GB will be FREE on £45 monthly tariff and above
iPhone 3G 8GB will be £99 on £30 and £35 tariffs
iPhone [...]
Well, Steve Jobs and Apple delivered in terms of content: the 2008 WWDC keynote was significantly better than last year’s. That’s the content, by the way; not the presentation itself, which seems not to have delighted everyone e.g. see the coverage at Engadget. (not enough Steve Jobs, I guess). Herewith, my initial reactions…
New iPhone 3G [...]
Literally, just a couple of minutes ago, during Steve Jobs’s 2008 WWDC keynote, Apple announced two new brands: MobileMe and Me.com
Now, we’ve been dropping clues to the name of one of our forthcoming brands for some months now (for example, see the photos on www.psynixis.com ). Given Apple’s announcement, though, I wanted to get our [...]
In a few hours, Steve Jobs will deliver the keynote presentation at Apple’s 2008 World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC. I hoping (and expecting) it will be much better than last year’s, which I found pretty underwhelming. Why? Well, at the 2007 WWDC, Apple announced no new hardware; and all that emerged was:
The fact that the [...]
The iPhone App Store launch is now imminent, which begs the question - how many third-party applications will be available for iPhone? It’s difficult to say. What we know is that there have been hundreds of thousands of downloads of the iPhone SDK; and that there have been 1700 proposals put into Kleiner-Perkins for VC [...]
Sun Microsystems inc., going from strength to strength? No, I’m not crazy! I’ve seen the share price! Despite that, though, I think Sun Microsystems inc., is actually becoming fundamentally stronger, as it fills out gaps in its hardware line (from high-end to low-end); and steps ever nearer to the completion of its software stack (data [...]
New York-based VC, Fred Wilson has shared his vision for social media:
Every single human being posting their thoughts and experiences in any number of ways to the Internet
This is a clear vision, no doubt; and Fred says, “bullshit” to anyone that responds by saying that most people don’t have anything interesting to say. However, I [...]