Monthly Archives: January 2009

Does Obama have to prosecute?

Posted on January 23, 2009 by Jeff

I’ve been think­ing a lot about legal mat­ters recently. Now that Pres­i­dent Obama (that does sound nice, doesn’t it?) is in office, sworn in (twice, for good mea­sure) and issu­ing all kinds of exec­u­tive orders and pol­icy state­ments (whither K street? or … Con­tinue read­ing →

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First, kill all the lawyers

Posted on January 22, 2009 by Jeff

Palm has trou­ble, right here in River City. Apple’s COO and interim CEO said on their recent earn­ings call that they would aggres­sively defend their intel­lec­tual prop­erty. He didn’t call out the Palm Pre by name, but the sub­text was there. … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Exchanging Exchange

Posted on January 18, 2009 by Jeff

My hosted Exchange provider started act­ing weird again recently, and I decided I’d had enough. At the same time, the new Live Mesh client that was sup­posed to improve com­pat­i­bil­ity with Win­dows 7 started caus­ing my net­book to freeze up (solid, no … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Palm’s accident of timing

Posted on January 16, 2009 by Jeff

It’s about time some­thing went Palm’s way. And now, sud­denly, every­thing seems to be going Palm’s way. They blew every­one away at CES, are get­ting tons of pos­i­tive press in the national media, and now, their biggest rival in the … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Pre-​mature

Posted on January 9, 2009 by Jeff

Don’t get too excited about the Palm Pre, folks. Palm them­selves is going to kill it the same way they they killed the Foleo, which could have been the standard-​bearer net­book: by fun­da­men­tally mis­un­der­stand­ing the mobile mar­ket. When they should … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Palm Pre is close, but no cigar

Posted on January 8, 2009 by Jeff

Don’t get me wrong. Palm’s keynote at CES was impres­sive (I wasn’t there, but thanks to live­blog­ging from gdgt, Tre­o­Cen­tral and cnet, I feel like I was). Palm’s webOS plat­form and Pre smart­phone take the best of the iPhone and Google Android, … Con­tinue read­ing →

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