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I have heard plenty of complaints from friends and colleagues, and seen similar things in the press, that they don’t see the benefit in the iPad because they’ll still need to lug around a laptop and a phone. So now they have even more stuff and another charger to cart around with them. They’re mistaken [...]

In 10 years when we look back at the shape of the computer industry, 2010 will mark the clear start of the post-PC era.

The PC as the primary computing device is dead. They won’t go away, but they won’t be the main way that the average person interacts with data any more. It has [...]

A lot of ink and pixels are being spilled this week about announcements made at the Facebook conference this week.  Many of the new things announced are already live.

Facebook is still lacking in one major area, and until this is fixed I and a lot of other people will remain uncomfortable. We need to [...]

Update: Google has fixed the problem with their site not handling iPad correctly.  You can now configure up to 25 calendars from your Apps or Gmail account to sync to your iPad calendar.

There is a bug/oversight currently affecting calendar sync with the iPad.  If you have already been a user of Google sync in the [...]

As soon as things started looking pretty grim in late 2008 I knew it was time to be thinking about starting new companies. At the time it was mainly intuition, and the knowledge that the majority of great companies in existence today were started during down cycles.  I also believe in the platinum rule of [...]

New startups and ‘seed stage‘ funding are the absolute underpinning of our entire economy.

As I observed in my post months back on health care reform, the vast majority of new jobs created in the US are at small and new companies. The easiest way to understand why this is the case is to look at [...]

Please take a moment and read this message from the Grameen foundation, a cause I strongly support:

Last year, we kicked off a global campaign in hopes that our supporters who believe in the power of microfinance will help us share its importance with their networks.

On the 27th of each month, we ask our supporters to [...]

When the iPhone came out it was amazingly great and obviously stupid at the same time.  No cut and paste? No changeable battery?  No slot for expansion cards?

Now the iPad will have a similar growth curve.  The software that is initially shipping with it suffers from being 1.0.  And Apple 1.0 versions suffer further from [...]