Monday, September 10, 2007

Daily Round-up?

Ring around the ringtone! Apple wants to charge iPhone owners an extra 99 cents to turn songs they've already bought into ringtones. iPhone owners find a way around this. Apple pushes out a new version of iTunes to plug the hole. iPhone owners find a new way around this. Hmm - wonder what will happen next? Meanwhile, the good news is that all these work-around's are legal.

Apple cut the price of the iPhone by a third two months after shipping it, hoping consumers would start yelling "Buy!" Instead they got Wall Street is hollering "Sell!" $11 billion fell from the company's market capitalization in a few short days. Barron's has an excellent roundup of what a dozen analysts have to say about this.

Could Apple's next big price cut be in TV episodes?

Who really knows? The future is unwritten. It's not even burnt into toast.

Perhaps the brilliant toasters of today are harbingers of an imminent takeover by co-mingled human/machine intelligence? A Bay Area gathering ponders this possibility.

Whatever the future holds, we here in the US are tired of being so far behind the rest of the world. Japan has faster Internet, Korea has faster everything -and even the Brits can place a Starbucks order through a laptop.

And soon, they'll be able to do this while editing their photos via an online version of Photoshop.

Sunday, September 09, 2007



Lindsay chats with Mike Volpi, CEO of Joost, to discuss the future of television on the web.