In the past week, I attended two events where I had to evaluate startup pitches delivered to investors: a boot camp for the upcoming 3RVF conference in Pittsburgh, and the interim demo day at AlphaLab. Both events were dry-run practice sessions so that presenting companies could be more polished when they were actually on the [...]
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I was heartened to read about the announcement of the new Sony eReader; it was a nice surprise, and the size of the competitive field of electronic book devices is growing and promising. I have written a couple posts about the “tween screen”, and am a somewhat proud owner of Amazon’s [...]
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I couldn’t disagree more!
A quick read of this article (“Why Consumers Won’t Buy Tablets”) by Rafe Needleman over at CNET News leaves me gobsmacked that someone in technology could make so categorical a statement as this. The comments to this post seem to be pretty heated; I think he needled [...]
Another quote from another of Fred Wilson’s posts over at A VC:
I love what Google is doing with Android and while I’ve yet to find an Android phone that can replace my trusted Blackberry, I think Android is going to be a big success. They’ve got the right approach to the market, they are open [...]
No, it’s not an April Fools joke. RIM finally launched its long awaited application store, Blackberry App World, today at the CTIA show in Las Vegas. I took the opportunity to test drive most of the free applications this morning (premium apps start at $2.99).
I thought it would be interesting to list my top 10 free Blackberry apps. [...]