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Does anyone remember Real Networks and ultimately what happened to them? It’s a history lesson that Plam could learn from. During the early years of the online music battle a cat and mouse game between Apple and Real Networks broke out when Real built a player capable of playing music purchased on iTunes. Apple responded by [...]

Many of you read about my poor experience with the Carbonite online backup service. After that experience I was ready to throw in the towel on online backup and not think about it until the market got a little more mature. This plan was cut short when my already favorite home backup solution CrashPlan lowered [...]

There have been a lot of rumors on the upcoming “Apple tablet” and a few reports as to what it’s going to look like and be capable of but so far none of them have me totally convinced. Unfortunately I haven’t been able to totally convince myself either on what exactly this new device from [...]

Have you heard of the CrunchPad? It’s the brainchild of Michael Arrington of TechCrunch fame and despite having created what looks to be a very attractive device that would look great on my couch the device is going to be an absolute failure. Let me be clear, I’m not rooting for this failure. The folks [...]

When I was at HP a small group of the former SPI Dynamics team had the opportunity to speak with Ann Livermore and share our thoughts and experiences on life inside HP. The conversation was free flowing and unstructured and we spent way too much time complaining about how hard life was inside HP but [...]