Good Goes Global?
Published Saturday, July 15, 2006 by Technology Monster.| It's hard to say anyone's putting a dent in RIM's gi-normous Blackberry mobile email business, but rival Good Technology appears intent to give the company a run for the money. Good announced today it had signed deals with Telstra's, Australia's largest wireless carrier, and Bell Mobility of Canada to offer its service to denizens of those countries. We're not talking huge business here, since Canada and Australia have relatively sparse populations. |
ABC Says People Wouldn't Mind If TiVos Can No Longer Fast Forward
Published Saturday, July 08, 2006 by Technology Monster.| Slashdot points out that ABC TV execs have been talking about ways to ban people from using their DVRs to skip commercials. In fact, ABC's head of ad sales actually claimed that consumers don't really care about the commercial skip feature: I'm not sure that the driving reason to get a DVR in the first place is just to skip commercials. People can understand in order to have convenience and on-demand (options), that you can't skip commercials." |
Not Your Dad's Mainframe: Little Iron
Published Thursday, July 06, 2006 by Technology Monster.| Now, though, the mainframe is heading towards a much larger potential market.In IBM's latest effort to keep Big Iron relevant in a fast-changing computing world, it's retooling the technology for small- and medium-size businesses. They met up with some IBM technical wizards and talked over their dreams and were stunned to hear that the mainframe might be the best computing choice for a small company with a massive project like they had in mind. |