Today InfoWorld’s Randall Kennedy says that Google’s Chrome OS will fail.
What he is missing is he’s looking at the wrong field.
Google is playing a different game. Google Chrome OS is NOT about killing Microsoft or Apple.
What is it about? Developers, developers, developers, developers, developers.
See, what happens if the world [...]
If you're paying any attention to the techosphere today there are two stories dominating the headlines. Both involve non-shipping products.
First, Google showed off the first demo of its Chrome OS. Download Squad does a nice job breaking it down....
"So what exactly is Chrome'" [...] A MacArthur Foundation article titled Selling Museums to a Tough Audience: Teens describes a meeting where 23 leading museum people commiserated about the rejection of museums by the youth:
Even though this group was hardly the ostriches, they all grappled with the constraints of the current system—from physical structures to [...]
American Public Media and Minnesota Public Radio are sponsoring a meeting focused on the Future of News. You can watch a live stream here.
From the intro:
The decline of journalism in America is reaching the point of crisis. Newsrooms around the nation are shrinking [...]
Earlier this month, Peter Kafka at MediaMemo reported that Apple has a new initiative to sell broadcast and cable programming via iTunes for a monthly fee of $30.
Peter wrote that Apple is in the early stages of conversation with programmers but noted there are a number of hurdles.
Last [...]
Hey, Verizon (& Google & Apple & Dell & BestBuy….).
I want to try the Droid but I am already in indentured servitude to AT&T for my iPhone (and have no particular desire to lose it). As much of a gadget geek as I am (I’m no Leo Laporte – [...]
The sphere is abuzz with today's news that AT&T is suing Verizon over those apparently quite effective ads which borrow heavily from Apple's tagline - "There's an App for that..." Verizon has created a map that compares AT&T 3G coverage to Verizon's, and then uses' [...]
There’s nothing geeks love more than to argue mobile phone platforms. Here’s Matt Blaisdell saying that apps weren’t key to iPhone’s success. That’s true, but now that Apple has apps the world has changed and challengers to the iPhone will find it very tough.
Here’s why: everyone is using a [...]
The Wall Street Journal's twice-daily, 8-minute show the News Hub, expanded this week with a live report on Monday's Apple earnings. It was the first live Web video program around earnings. On Tuesday, the paper did a Webcast on Yahoo.
With the paper's television agreement with CNBC winding down, the' [...]
