Palm CEO Jon Rubinstein: I've Never Used an iPhone
If CES 2009 marked Palm's rise-from-the-ashes rebirth, CES 2010 may well be the beginning of its resurgence, the inflection point at which the company really begins to gain traction in a market that n...
A Deluge of Devices for Reading and Surfing
LAS VEGAS — You've heard of Amazon.com's Kindle. And you probably know that Apple is likely to introduce a tablet computer this year. Soon you may also be hearing about the Alex, the Que proReader a...
Crunchies: Google Voice is coming to the iPhone “one way or the other”
Google's vice president of engineering Vic Gundotra said the Google Voice application, which is still in limbo after Apple declined to give it the greenlight for the app store, will come to the iPhone...
What Blackberry Is For Outlook/Exchange, Android Is For Google Apps
My friend Wil Stephens posted his thoughts on his first day on a Nexus One just now. If you click thru and read it, you'll note the similarity with the review I posted last week. I am not suggesting...
What's going on with OAuth?
Over the past week there's been a variety of incorrect information shared about what's going on with the OAuth protocol. Chris Messina (Google), Dick Hardt (Microsoft), Eran Hammer-Lahav (Yahoo!), an...
Congratulations Crunchies Winners! Facebook Takes Best Overall For The Hat Trick
This year's third annual Crunchies Awards have just concluded, and we're happy to say that it was an overwhelming success. For those that weren't watching, we've included the list of nominees and win...
H.P. Working on ‘Half-Pint’ Android Tablet
Hewlett Packard is currently working on numerous different tablet devices that will come in a variety of sizes, shapes and operating systems, including Windows 7, Google's Android, and possibly the op...
Software Sea Change
2,000,000 Strong — Over the week covering this past Christmas Day a piece of software I had contributed to was downloaded two million times. — I've been writing Pop Software for my entire professi...
Legislators Worldwide Asking Questions About ACTA
Legislators around the world are demanding more information on the secret Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. French Deputy Nicolas Dupont-Aignan raised ACTA questions in the National Assembly late ...
CES: Netflix CEO Hastings Sees 20 More Years Of Mailing DVDs; “Excellent” Chance Of Nintendo Wii Deal
Someday, Netflix (NFLX) will offer more than 100,000 movies on its streaming service. Not yet, of course. They currently offer 17,000-plus pieces of streaming content and counting.