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On Microsoft and Schadenfreude

The blogosphere is all a-twitter about yesterday’s East Texas court judgment, which previously awarded $290 Million to appropriately-named Canadian patent troll i4i (well, OK, not exactly a troll) and further granted them an injunction preventing Redmond from...

MSFT vs GOOG: The New Cold War?

When I was a child growing up in the suburbs of Vancouver, we conducted regular drills to rehearse for what we believed was the inevitability of a nuclear assault at the hands of an evil Communist empire half a world away.  This was the height of the cold war, and as...

Moobella Raises $25M First Round

Baskin-Robbins oughtta be scared.  Easily the highlight for me while attending DEMO 2006 was sampling the wares of the Moobella Ice Cream vending machine.  Yesterday they announced their $25M Series A financing, which is an impressive indicator of how far along they...

Palm gets the gong

Yesterday’s launch of the Palm Foleo probably did not yield the expected huzzahs and praise that normally heralds a product launch from one of Silicon Valley’s product design luminaries, especially one by Mr. Jeff Hawkins. Palm chose to use...

Move Over, iPhone

If, in a few weeks, it turns out that Apple’s iPhone is going to become another delicate rosebud in the AT&T Wireless walled garden, there are a number of candidates waiting in the wings for those of us who’ve seen this as the bazaar’s big...