For the past month, I have been using an app on my DroidX called Overdrive that allows me to access a digital library of titles at my local library. I just finished listening to the MP3 version of Master and Commander by Patrick O’Brian, and I loved it. I have been a sailor since my [...]
Yesterday, I spent a bigger chunk of time than I care to admit trying to get my wife’s 3GS iPhone back in working order after a failed attempt to upgrade to the iOS4 operating system. Luckily, we got it working without having to send it in to Apple and without spending the $199 they told [...]
I wrote recently about the rise of what I call agile hardware and this is a trend and industry that continue to fascinate me. I am always on the lookout for startups and investments in this nascent industry.
One of the most fascinating aspects of agile hardware are the set of hardware accessories that work with [...]
If you see me in the next couple of days and hear a strange buzzing noise, that isn’t my new massaging socks I got for Christmas – that is the blood pressure monitor strapped across my arm, or the activity sensor on my wrist, or the PDA that is attached to my hip that is [...]
It is a snowy day in Western PA, and the schools are closed and the kids are happy…
Last year, my venture capital firm came very close to making an investment in a neat little company in Wilmington, NC – New Potato Technologies (“…a name that raises more questions than it answers…” to quote the founder; [...]
I have been watching some of the activity out at CES (Consumer Electronics Show) and I finally saw a tablet computer that I must have, one that will get me a base camp in the tablet revolution. It’s called the XOOM and it is made by Motorola.
I have written about tablets before, but have been [...]
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Well, now it’s official – Amazon has finally broken a tiny crack in the tough outer shell of their Kindle, a nearly microscopic one… the BIG news about allowing lending your Kindle eBooks from one device to another is official.
The upshot is that I can now choose to make the eBooks that I [...]
A couple of nights ago I was invited to CMU to judge some elevator pitches (along with Dave Mawhinney and Mel Pirchesky – Mel is considered by most to be the godfather of the elevator pitch, and you can read a guest post he made here at Pittsburgh Ventures about a year ago) from undergraduates [...]
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As I mentioned in one of my last posts, I am a happy new owner of the Motorola Droid, running the Android OS on Verizon. I promised to spell out which apps I am enjoying most, so here is a list of some of my favorite ones:
Screebl – top of my list, one [...]
I was overcome by “Open Platform Fever” and decided to ditch my Windows Mobile phone – my HTC Touch Pro (available now, gently used and in excellent condition, on eBay). Our CFO was kind enough to let me purchase my second new phone in less than a year (thanks, Dave!).
I have been jealous of [...]