Author: Vince Kimball

PC World: What Palm Chiefs Learned From Newton. Palm employs a major cadre of ex-Apple people, with the corporate headcount said to comprise a third of former Apple employees. Palm executives admit they learned from working on Apple's Newton personal digital assistant, which was discontinued in February 1998. [Tomalak's Realm]

CD prices: Leaving the little guys behind Universal Music Group's (UMG) plan to cut CD prices to improve sales has gotten a good deal of coverage. But an interesting Wall Street Journal article (“CD Price Cuts to Squeeze Retailers”, September 18, 2003) presents a postscript to that story. UMG is the largest record company of… Continue reading record company

What music oligopolists really worry about Here's a smart blog article  on the troubles of the recording oligopoly. The article “RIAA Enemy #1: Wal-Mart, Not Kazaa” illustrates well my point that the problems of the music industry are not about downloading (though that doesn't help), but because of a set of factors that together are… Continue reading

What music oligopolists really worry about

Here's a smart blog article

Scoble hangs out with David Temkin of Laszlo. I've been trying to get David Temkin to start blogging for a while now. Hopefully if he starts to see results from me, Scoble and Sarah blogging about Laszlo – that'll tip the scale towards him finding the time.  I think he could easily become one of… Continue reading Scoble hangs out with David Temkin of Laszlo

Yet Another Laszlo Widget – III. Laszlo Booklist Application. The animated book list at the bottom of my home page was written in Laszlo. It's 42 lines of code, and was written entirely in a text editor (emacs) — all the images are courtesy of Amazon. I was inspired to write this by Mark and… Continue reading Yet Another Laszlo Widget – III

ZDNet UK – Microsoft moves to integrate Windows with BIOS. A deal with BIOS maker Phoenix Technologies would allow the operating system to directly control hardware. It also raises concerns over who controls the software in PCs Microsoft has expanded its relationship with BIOS maker Phoenix Technologies in a deal designed to more closely integrate… Continue reading Microsoft moves to integrate Windows with BIOS

Axentra Rumba Server – Home Do-It-All Box [Slashdot] Coming Soon.  Sounds very interesting.

SBS 2003 to be launched next week. Microsoft's new Small Business Server 2003, which includes Exchange Server 2003 is going to be commercially available in just five days time. Details of pricing can be found here. If you're a small business and are considering purchasing this package, be sure to check out the special bundled… Continue reading SBS 2003 to be launched next week

Smart People in the News: Rheingold, Gosling. In “How Will “Smart Mobs” Play Out?,” BusinessWeek asked questions to Howard Rheingold, who published the “Smart Mobs” book at the end of 2002. Q: In your recent world travels, have you noticed any new developments in the year since your Smart Mobs book has come out? A:… Continue reading Smart People in the News: Rheingold, Gosling

Smart Innovations Come with PlanetLab. In “The Internet Reborn” (free registration necessary for this long Technology Review article), Wade Roush says that “a grass-roots group of leading computer scientists is working on replacing today's Internet with a faster, more secure, and vastly smarter network: PlanetLab.” PlanetLab, with its many innovations, will not be part of… Continue reading Smart Innovations Come with PlanetLab