The New Palm Pre - My early obesrvations after taking it for a spin - I have been working with the Palm Pre now for awhile and have some early observations about the prod...    more

Understanding Apple Parts 1 and 2 - How to predict what products Apple will bring to Market - Part One Following Apple for some 28 years now, I've seen the Mac maker grow from a very small company (launched with a computer thought of as a hobbyist toy) to one of the most powerful technology companies on the planet.    more

The Netbook Conundrum - Is the netbook good or bad for the PC industry - Most of the PC industry dismissed the ASUS EeePC when it was launched—some considered it a 'toy" lap...    more

Our Economy Explained - An Explanation I can understand - Subject: our economy explained!  It all makes sense now, Subject: Derivative markets, an und...    more

What will it take to make eBooks Successful? - Innovation, Innovation and more Innovation-From PC Mag - I've been fascinated by recent media reports and chatter about Amazon's new Kindle, especially the decision to create an iPhone application for delivering digital books.    more

Steve Wozniak on Dancing with the Stars - I give him some dancing tips - I happened to run into Steve Wozniak at the San Jose airport a week ago and gave him some dancing ti...    more

8 Predictions for 2009 - Windows 7 as Tech Saviour to Apple's Gain in Market Share - The current economic crisis makes forecasting much more difficult this year than in the past, yet December still seems like a good time to ponder the year ahead.    more

Netbooks are really Mini-Notebooks - There is not a Netbook category in the US - By now you have probably heard about these newfangled netbooks, products like the ASUS EeePC and Del...    more

Warnings about Netbook Positioning - Why the Industry needs to get Netbook Positioning right - In 2007, ASUS took a gamble and introduced a new type of portable computer. Called the EeePC, it was...    more

The March from Client Server to Client Cloud Computing - The Future is in the Cloud - I've been fascinated by the Web 2.0 concept and what it potentially means for the next generation of...    more

Where are the Mobile OS Standards? - What will drive the success of smart phones - Smartphones like the Apple iPhone, the BlackBerry, and Windows Mobile and Windows Mobile–based devices represent the next major computing platform.    more

The Real Impact of the iPhone - Blazing new trails in mobile computing - MY Column in PC Mag, June 13, 2008 In 1989, I worked on a project that eventually led to the introduction of the Poqet PC.    more

The Next PC Platform - Meeting the Internet Demands of Emerging Markets - Over the past few months, PC Magazine Editor-in-Chief Lance Ulanoff, columnist John C. Dvorak, and I...    more

Smart Photo Frames - The New Digital Screen in the Home - I envision a wireless mobile system connects you to the Web and lets you communicate with family an...    more

Predicting the next PC - The result of Two Major Announcements - There were two landmark announcements in our corner of the tech world recently that have the potential of changing the definition of mobile computing.    more

Apple's MacBook Air - It's real importance and why everyone missed it - I have been intrigued by the various comments on the MacBook Air and the views that it is underpow...    more

Predictions for 2008 - Predictions and Trends for 2008 - Every year at this time I venture forth with my predictions for the New Year. Early in my career, I would foolishly try and predict as much as ten years out, but in a world where technology changes so fast, ten-year predictions are almost worthless these days.    more

Google Rules - Why I call them the G-Force - Google continues to hold an increasingly powerful place in the tech world. I call it the G-Force. I ...    more

Google's IDominance - Part II - Last week I wrote about what I call the G-Force, Google's ever-increasing influence on the world of technology, politics, and, soon, the world of communications.    more

China Rising - Is This China's Century - As I write this column I am sitting in my hotel room in Southern China, looking out the window at ...    more

Are E-Books Ready for Prime Time? - Testing the New Sony E-Book - A couple times a year I board an international flight, which usually involves being stuck on a plane...    more

Processing Power vs Bandwidth - A Disruptive Technology or Technology Evolution - I have been studying the impact of disruptive technologies on our future, recently, for a panel I wi...    more

The SmartPhone OS Wars - The Bloody Battle Ahead and What it Means for Apple - There's an operating systems war in the works, and it has nothing to do with Windows, Linux, and OS X.    more

Media On Smart Phones and Mobile Devices - Driven by Media Snacking - About four years ago, at a conference in San Diego, Steve Jobs was asked about putting video on an i...    more

Social Networking 3.0 - The Next Generation of Social Networking - I recently attended the AlwaysOn Stanford Summit, a yearly event in which leaders from Silicon Valley and the venture-capital community come together to discuss industry issues and trends.    more

Social Networking 4.0 - The 3D Future of Social Networks - I recently wrote about the future of social networking, or Social Networks 3.0. Some people think i...    more

Why Apple Needs to Open Up the iPhone - It Needs Third Party Developers to Succeed - The term "platform" is often used in tech circles to represent everything—a new device, an OS, or ev...    more

Hands on with the iPhone - My First impressions - When Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone in January, he said that Apple was “re-inventing” the cell phone.    more

Can Technology Change the World? - A Personal Perspective - I have had the privilege of serving as an industry analyst and market researcher for the personal-co...    more

Report from Apple Developers Conference - My Overivew of Leopard and WWDC News. - Over the last six months, many in the Mac community have gotten a sneak peek at Apple's ambiti...    more

HTC's New Touch - Ben's Video Reviews - My son Ben got an HTC Touch Windows Mobile 6.0 Smart Phone to work with recently and has posted a vi...    more

WSJ All Things D Conference Overview - Jobs and Gates Together Again - One of the more important (and exclusive) tech industry events each year is the Wall Street Journal'...    more

Palm's New Foleo - Jeff Hawkins and I disucss his new device - In the spring of 1995, I was invited to the office of Jeff Hawkins, who had recently founded a company called Palm Computing.    more

Microsoft and Yahoo - What could happen-And it's not a merger - I was fascinated with all the speculation that surfaced last week around the idea that Microsoft and...    more

Should PC Companies Fear Apple? - Yes, and Yes - Back in June 2006, I had an interesting conversation with Dell CEO Michael Dell. We discussed the nature of the consumer business, and I introduced some findings from the research that my company, Creative Strategies, had carried out.    more

Re-Inventing the laptop - Looking back to look forward - As a serious business traveler, I'm a big fan of small and light portable computers, often referred ...    more

The ZenZui Mobile User Interface - My Hands on overview from the CTIA Show - In the opening keynote session at CTIA, AT&T Chief Operating Officer Randall Stephenson told an audi...    more

Challanges for the Cellular Phone Market - News from CTIA - This week, some 40,000 people (myself included) will head to Orlando, Florida, to attend the annual ...    more

Overcoming Tech Generation Gap - PC Mag article on Gen X and Gen Y - About six years ago while at my sister's house for Christmas dinner, my nephew, who was 10 at the time, came up to me and asked "Uncle Tim, when you were my age, what was your favorite Web site?    more

Drop DRM or Become Irrelevant - Gerd Leonhard's Open Letter to the Music Industry - An interesting perspective on the DRM debate- Drop DRM or become irrelevant - Why the music industry needs to drop DRM, and sell unprotected digital music, NOW by Gerd Leonhard Music & Media Futurist, Author DRM - a question of believe systems?    more

Apple TV is Soon to Ship - Why it Matters - At CES in early 2005, I hosted a Super Session panel entitled "The Battle for Control of the Digital Living Room" in which executives from Best Buy, Charter Communications (Paul Allen's cable company), HP, Philips, and Zoran discussed how digital technology would eventually affect the living room.    more

Kodak's New Photo Printers - Finally, Kodak Enters The Photo Printer Market-my PC Mag Analysis - After years of letting competitors gain access to what should have been “their” customers, Kodak is ...    more

Nintendo's Wii-An Adictive Game System - Casual Gaming for the Older Generation - Unlike my colleague Rob Enderle, who is a serious gamer, or my son Ben, who is a hard core gamer, I ...    more

Apple iPhone User Interface - Are we looking at the future iPod? - When Apple introduced the iPhone at MacWorld, all of the attention was focused on this revolutionary...    more

Apple's New iPhone and Apple TV - Initial response to these new products. - Comments on Steve Job’s MacWorld 2007 speech- On Apple TV Apple’s TV solution is an indus...    more

A New Year, A New Column - Launching a Weekly Column for PC Magazine - I am pleased to announce that starting today my newest column is being launched on PC Magazine Onlin...    more

2007 Predictions and Trends from Tim Bajarin - A Lively Year Ahead for the Tech Crowd - For those of us in the tech market, 2006 was a relatively good year. Apple gained market share, laptops moved past desktops in terms of units sold and HP and Dell both sold more PC’s this year then last.    more

Tim Bajarin's CES Preview - Hot Products and Trends at CES 2007 - Well, its time to start thinking seriously about CES 2007. Very soon, 150,000 or so people will head off to Las Vegas to attend the largest consumer electronics show in the US and experience a lot of frustration and anxiety as they wait in long cab lines and rush to-and-fro to see everything that is new in the CE world and try and get to meetings scattered all over town.    more

Microsoft: Copy Cats or Innovators - An Important Set of Viewpoints - One of the more interesting arguments I have had over the years with people in the industry and especially the media is whether Microsoft is innovative or are they just technology copycats.    more

The $100 Laptop for Third World Children - A New Controversy Around the Project - A couple of years ago, former MIT Media Lab director, Nicholas Negroponte, launched a program to develop a $100 laptop for kids with an eye on bringing computers to third world nations to help them educate their young.    more

Tim Bajarin's Holiday Gift Ideas - Tech Toys for Holiday Fun - 2006 has been a very good year for technology. A lot of new and exciting products have come to market that would make great gifts this holiday season.    more

Connected to the Internet at 40,00 feet - How cool Is This???? - As I write this column, I am 40,000 feet somewhere over Poland, on my way from Frankfurt to Hong Kon...    more

Apple Gains Market Share - The Reason Why is Signficant - I recently looked at the new Gartner PC market share numbers and was somewhat surprised to see that ...    more

New York's Digital Life Show - A Smashing Success - I spent part of last week at the Digital Life show in New York City checking out tech toys that will...    more

A Cautionary Note to Microsoft's Zune Team - Get it right the first time as consumers are not forgiving - If you are in the PC industry, you know that there is a maxim that says if Microsoft doesn’t get it ...    more

The PC Is A TV - The New Role of a Personal Computer - Don’t look now but it appears that the PC is rapidly becoming “a” TV. That is if you define the TV a...    more

The Future of HP Depends on Hurd - He Must Be Allowed to Fix HP and Gain Back Public Confidence. - The ongoing saga of the HP leak investigation has been quite disheartening to those of us who have c...    more

Apples New iPods, iTunes 7 and iTV - Big news from Apple - After months of speculation, Apple Computer finally rolled out their iTunes Movie store as well as new iPods and, perhaps even more importantly, their own version of Microsoft’s Media Center PC architecture currently code named iTV.    more

The Dell Dilemma - New Growth vs Current Business Model - I have been covering Dell since its inception and I can’t remember a time in their history when it h...    more

HP's Board Investigation and the "Pretexting" Problem - The Silver Lining That Could Come From This - Much has already been written about the current legal woes of HP’s board and the issues surrounding it, including a good piece by my colleague Rob Enderle here in Pundits.    more

The Zune Swoon - Why Microsoft's "Zune" is Not a Slam Dunk - For the last six months I had been hearing rumors that Microsoft was going to bring out their own MP3 players and compete with Apple directly.    more

Apple’s New OS Leopard Sets New Bar for PC Operating Systems - "Hasta la vista, Vista" - In his opening keynote at the Apple Developer Conference in San Francisco,Steve Jobs showed off Appl...    more

Vista's "New" Ship Date - Another Possible Scenario to Consider - Over the last couple of months, all of us at Pundits have been asked to weigh in on our Vista consum...    more

The IBM PC Turns 25 - eWeek's 25 products that defined the PC in the last 25 years - Believe it or not, the IBM PC turns 25 years old this year. For me, it also marks my 25th year at Creative Strategies.    more

Apple's Dual OS Personal Computers - What They Really Mean to Apple and the PC Industry - My son Ben and I have taken the plunge and loaded Windows XP on our Mac notebooks. What seemed like a heretical move to Mac fans not long ago is now starting to become a routine move by folks like us who have to live in both a Mac and PC World.    more

Whole Home Media Servers - Is this the Future of Home Networks? - There is a story in Electronic News about a new research report from ABI that suggests the market for Home Media Servers will have substantial growth through 2011.    more

Gates to Leave Day-to-Day Role at Microsoft - Why this is good news for the world - I should have seen this coming. Two weeks ago, just before Gates spoke at the WSJ conference in San ...    more

Are Operating Systems Becoming Irrelevant? - Web OS vs PC based OS - The concept of an operating system’s value is highlighted in an interesting article in the L.A. times in which the reporter, Charles Pillar, makes the case that in time, operating systems will become irrelevant and all of the navigation and applications will be strictly Web based.    more

WSJ:D Conference Day 2 - Sir Howard Stringer, CEO of Sony-Terry Semel, CEO of Yahoo, Robert Iger, CEO of Disney - Day two of the WSJ D: conference was supposed to start off with an interview of Brian Roberts, CEO o...    more

WSJ:D Conference-Bill Gates Keynote - Gates Introduces New Concept of "Augmented Reality" - For the next few days, I will be blogging from here in San Diego where I am with some 400+ industry ...    more

FCC Commisioneer Backs Net Neutrality - Says FCC Can Impost Net Neutrality - Net Neutrality is a hot issue these days and the FCC has officially weighed in on their position. Here is an important article in Multichannel News that states FCC commissioner's views on this issue: COPPS: FCC CAN IMPOSE NET NEUTRALITY [SOURCE: Multichannel News, AUTHOR: Ted Hearn] The Federal Communications Commission has authority under current law to ensure that broadband-access providers -- currently mainly cable and phone companies -- do not discriminate against Web-based providers of content, search services and applications, FCC commissioner Michael Copps said Tuesday.    more

Microsoft's Prepaid and Subscription Computing - Reaching 1.5 Billion New Potential PC Users Around the World - Microsoft’s announcement of its new initiative to extend their PC franchise to at least another ...    more

Apple's New MacBooks - Solid Thin and Light Offerings for Consumers - With the release of the new MacBook series of laptops, Apple finally enters the world of thin and li...    more

Sony, Apple, Microsoft, and others form Digital Exchange Group - New group to create standard for sharing music data - There was an important announcement made recently about a new consortium with goals to capture and share metadata about digital music distribution and related assets.    more

If Consumer Confidance Dips, Sales of PC's and Consumer Products Could Slide - How This Could Impact End Of Year Sales - All of us in the market research business are looking closer at our end of year forecasts and now have to factor in something that was only mildly on our radar last fall when we put forth our 2006 PC and consumer market forecasts.    more

Give PC 's Away for Free - A Radical Approach to PC Distribution - I was reading a story in the New York Times earlier this week about Jonathan Schwartz, in which the writer of the article, John Markoff, makes this statement: “Jonathan I.    more

Dvorak Suggests Apple Open Up OS X - Could OSX take on Linux? - John Dvorak's recent piece on Apple opening up OS X to take on Linux in this weeks PC Mag is a fasci...    more

Will The Real Inventor of Wireless Email Please Stand Up - Wirreless Email-Tracing its Roots - I met Geoff Goodfellow in the early 1990's in Boston at one of the first mobile shows I did and he was championing the idea of wireless email before most of us could even envision the idea of getting email wirelessly.    more

Disney does IPTV - Disney kickstarts the IPTV Revolution - Eureka, they’ve got it!!! Finally, one of the big television networks understands that the Internet is just another distribution medium for their broadcast content.    more

The Mac Does Windows - Apple's New Bootcamp lets a Mac Run Windows Software - Apple’s decision to create Bootcamp, a piece of software that makes it easy to run Windows XP on an ...    more

Apple's 30th Anniversary-A Different Perspective - How John Scully Influenced Apple and the PC Industry - Apple’s 30th anniversary is in the news these days and a lot has been written about the second comin...    more

The $100 Dollar Computer - Two New Offerings In the Works - About two years ago, I heard former MIT’s Media Lab director, Nicholas Negroponte, give his vision for a $100 laptop computer.    more

Mac-to-Mac Brain Transplant - Another Thing Apple Got Right - One of the privileges I have in my work is the ability to work with and test hardware and software on both the Mac and Windows platforms.    more

Intel and Microsoft's Ultra Mobile PC (UMPC) - An Important New Mobile Computing Platform - A short perspective: The Ultra Mobile PC, at the right price point, could become a broadly accepted mobile computing platform with a lot of potential beyond traditional vertical business markets.    more

Hot New Adult Game to Hit US Market - It's Not What You Think - When it comes to games, I will be the first to admit that I am much too old to understand its draw a...    more

HP's Q1 2006 earnings - Mark's Hurds focus on Operational Excellence is Paying Off - It looks like the decision of HP’s board to bring on Mark Hurd as CEO was not only the right one, bu...    more

Tiger Woods Learning Center - Tech Leaders could learn a Thing or Two from Tiger Woods - One of the big concerns of technology leaders, educators and politicians these days is the fact that...    more

Google in China - A balanced perspective - I was in China on the day Google launched their Chinese site and saw all the Google bashing going on...    more

Disney Buys Pixar - What it means for Disney and Apple - What it means for Disney: Disney gets access to some of the top brains in digital animation and the purchase of Pixar will guarantee that Disney, who defined and pioneered analog animation, will also be the leader in digital animation as well.    more

Samsung to Spend Millions to Try and Gain Marketshare in MP3 Players - Why This Will Fail - I recently read an article in which a top Samsung executive lamented the fact that Apple had spent some $165 million marketing their Mac and iPod products while Samsung spent a paltry $ 1 million trying to get customers to buy their MP3 player.    more

Google's Video Store - Putting the New Store into Perspective - I wrote this particular blog last summer but in light of Google's recent announcement about hosting their own video downloading service, I felt that it is worth posting it again with some updates.    more

Predictions for the New Year - 2006 Should be a Very Good Tech Year - Each year at this time, all of us at Pundits are asked for our predictions for the New Year. This...    more

Tim Bajarin's Preview of CES 2006 - Trends and Gems to look for at this year's CES - This year's CES is expected to be the largest ever as well over 130,000 people descend on Las Vegas ...    more

On Our Own Dime - What Gadgets We Would Buy with Our Own Money - One of the questions we get asked during the holiday season is what product or gadgets we would buy if we were spending our own money.    more

Blue Ray and HD DVD vs Holographic Storage - Could Holographic Storage Represent the Future of Digital Media Recording? - Could Blue Ray and HD DVD already be obsolete technology? That is the proposed claim in a recent article in Game Daily Biz.    more

The Silver Lining from Sony's Rootkit Fiasco - Why Consumers Will Benefit From Sony's Missteps - I spent part of my week in Southern California meeting with various Hollywood media folks looking at...    more

Congressional Hearing on New Telecommunications Bill Impacting the Internet - Vinton Cerf's Letter to Congressional Commitee Chairman Barton - Congress held a hearing November 8th, on "network neutrality" and a big new telecommunications bill ...    more

Creative Strategies for Developing Consumer Products - A Product Planning Guide - You may not know it but we are right in middle of a 50 year journey that will take the world from its analog roots to one where everything becomes digital.    more

Which Company Should the CE Vendors Fear the Most? Microsoft or Apple? - The Answer May Surprise You. - For the past few years, conventional wisdom has been that the one company the CE industry needed to ...    more

Palm Licenses The RIM Blackberry Platform - Treo on Track to Be Top Enterprise Smart Phone - Research in Motion’s decision to license their push email platform to Palm for use on their Treo is ...    more

Apple's iPod Video and new Consumer UI - What It Means for the Industry and Apple's Future - When Steve Jobs took the stage here in San Jose today, most people expected him to release a Video...    more

Sun and Google take on Microsoft's Office - How it Changes the Software Landsacpe - If you ever had a question about Google taking aim directly at Microsoft’s applications business, yo...    more

DVD Wars - Questions and Answers on This Important Battle - One of the major battles brewing in the world of digital is the format to be used for recording HD c...    more

Palm's New Treo Now a Windows Mobile Smart Phone - Why Palm Decided to Back Windows Mobile - The decision by Palm to introduce a new version of the Treo using Windows Mobile 5.0 should not come...    more

USB Thumb Drives-BORING - USB Thumb Drives with Software- EXCITING - I have a prediction to make. By the beginning of 2007, over 50% of all USB thumb drives and USB one ...    more

Apple's iPod Video - Why we will not see it anytime soon - When Apple sent out invitations to the launch of their new iPod Nano and iTunes Phone late in August, speculation was high that perhaps an iPod Video device would be at the center of this special event.    more

New Uses for P2P File Sharing - P2P services for file synchronization - When you hear the term P2P these days, most people think of its use as an illegal music downloading technology.    more

Apple's iPod Nano - The Replacement for the iPod Mini - Apple Does it Again - The Mac world was buzzing in advance of Apple’s iPod launch event on September 7, 2005 in San Franci...    more

Apple's Previously Announced iPod Phone - Microsoft's Response - The Apple rumor mills are working overtime these days with speculation that Apple is about to releas...    more

IBM's SoulPad - Innovation is Alive and Well at IBM - This coming October will mark my 24th year at Creative Strategies and long time readers of my column...    more

The Real Time Enterprise - The Future of IT - Mobile and wireless technology is finally ready for prime time. Actually, to be more accurate, mobil...    more

This Speed Dial Could Save Your Life - In Case of Emergency - Here is a great suggestion sent to me from a family member about adding an "In Case Of Emergency" sp...    more

Announcing: Real Time CRM Solutions Conference - Our New CRM show with IDG - I am pleased to announce that my partner Barton Goldenberg and I have inked a long term agreement wi...    more

Mobile Consumer Bill of rights - A reasonable proposal with a potentially positive impact on consumers. - Although this release is self promoting, the actual recommondations for the Mobile Consumers Bill of Rights is resonable and makes sense.    more

HP Drops Apple's iPod - Good or Bad move? - The news that HP plans to discontinue selling Apple’s iPod should not come as a surprise to anyone who understands new HP CEO Mark Hurd’s view of the world.    more

Silicon Valley's Newest Employee's - A New Way to Cut Costs - Chalk this one up to "only in Silicon Valley" lore. The SJ Merc is reporting that Network Appliance ...    more

HP's Reorganizes to Simplify Management - 14,500 WW Layoffs Over Next Six Quarters - From the time Mark Hurd joined HP four months ago, it was expected that he would make sweeping chang...    more

TV on Mobile - Fad or Serious Market Opportunity - First of all, I have a confession to make. After years of trying to think young, I am finally admitting that I am old.    more

Could Apple become the next phone company? - Apple as a Moible Virtual Network Operator - My colleague Rob Enderele recently posted a good piece on Disney becoming a wireless phone company. After seeing the news on this, it got me thinking that if Disney could do this, why couldn't Apple do the same thing.    more

The Media Brokers of the past, ABC, CBS, and NBC, are on their way to extinction - So, who will be the new media brokers of the new century? - ABC, CBS and NBC are media dinosaurs and are well on there way to extinction. By now you have probably heard that statement before since many have made this observation in the past.    more

iTunes 4.9-Setting Podcast's Free - Newest Version of iTunes Will Drive Podcasts Into The Mainstream. - A few weeks ago, at the WSJ All Things Digital Conference, Apple CEO Steve Jobs showed off a new ver...    more

Ringtones and Ringbacks - A $3 Billion Dollar Business - At last years CTIA show, various people from the cellular industry pointed out that the business for ringtones had recently exceeded $2 billion and that it could climb to $3 billion in the next 12 months.    more

What Do Wikis, Weblogs and RSS Mean For Business - The New Internet's impact on Business - As an individual, I have become a fan of Wikis, Weblogs and RSS. I often check out content at Wikipedia and read various Weblogs each day and use tools like Bloglines to aggregate my RSS feeds into a single page view.    more

The Importance of Real Simple Syndication (RSS) - Putting RSS into a New Perspective - One of the more important and interesting developments in the world of technology is the emergence of blogs and RSS.    more

The Future of Media - A Provocative Look at Media in 2015 - I recently ran accross a most fascinating flash presentation created by the Museum of Media History ...    more

VC's Find Consumer Religon - Why VC's are now financing consumer start-ups. - For the last few years, I have had quite a few calls and discussions with VC's about the hot trends in the market, and more to the point, the fact that I believe that the next big market opportunity lies in finding the right companies who take aim at consumers.    more

Apple's London Store - Redefining Computer Retail - While I was in London recently, I decided to check out Apple’s store on Regent Street. Those who kno...    more

Test Driving the PalmOne LifeDrive - A New Portable Computing Platform is Born - One of the more interesting products to come to market recently is the LifeDrive from PalmOne. It is...    more

The Third Screen - Redefining the Cell Phone - In my recent column in Mobile Enterprise Magazine, I discuss the idea that the cell phone is becoming the "third" screen in our digital lifestyles.    more

Who Invented Podcasting? - Will the real "Podfather" stand up? - There is a fascinating war of words going on between industry pioneer Dave Winer, who is the father of scripting and claims to be the first person to "podcast" and Adam Curry, former MTV star who claim's he started the podcasting trend.    more

Wall Street Journal's D: All Things Digital Conference - Steve Job's Opening Remarks. - Each year at this time, the Wall Street Journal holds a major industry conference called D: All Thin...    more

The World Is Flat - A Silicon Valley Viewpoint - There is a most interesting interview in Sunday’s San Jose Mercury News with Thomas L. Friedman, the NY Times writer who penned The World Is Flat, in which he talks about his book in terms of its impact on Silicon Valley.    more

Podcasts Hit Mainstream Radio - SF Radio Station Starts Airing Podcasts. - San Francisco radio station 1550 KYCY-AM began airing programming today created exclusively by listeners with podcast technology, as new and old media start to collide.    more

Google Owns the Media by 2014 - A Cautionary Tale - Yahoo has a fascinating story about the idea that someday Google could own the media. Well Written by John Leo, this is a thought provoking piece about the current fears of traditional media and a toungue-in-cheek look at what things might be like 10 years from now.    more

XBOX 360-More Then a Game Console - Microsoft's Trojan Horse - When Microsoft decided to create the first XBOX three years ago, they pretty much engineered it arou...    more

Watching My Home TV While in Beijing - Orb Networks Disruptive Technology - One of the curses of international travel, besides being away from home and family, is that in most ...    more

The New China - Returning to China after a nine year absence - During the late 1980’s and early 1990’s, I often traveled to China due to my work with various PC companies as well as my writing for multiple IT publications that are based in Singapore and Hong Kong.    more

Hollywood Vs. Grokster - Washington Post article on this Important Supreme Court Case - One of the most important cases in the world of technolgy was argued before the Supreme Court recently and the outcome of this case will have major ramifications for Hollywood and the technology community.    more

The End Of TV As We Know It. - MSNBC Article On The End Of Analog Television - A good friend of mine, Michael Rogers, formerly of Newsweek and now known as the "Practical Futurist" has written an excellent piece on the future of television and an upcoming congressional hearing that will impact the mandated cut off date of analog television on Dec 31, 2006.    more

Star Wars Fan Film - Knight Ridder Story on "Star Wars Revelations." - I am not a big Star Wars fan but I am interested in the creative process, and more importantly how a...    more

New Mac OS Tiger ships April 29th - Why this is a "great" OS. - I spent some time over at Apple yesterday taking a closer look of their new OS known as Tiger or Mac OS 10.    more

Cable Industry's Desire To Control The Digital Living Room - News from the NCTA Show - In my yearly predictions column, I stated that one of the trends over the next 18-24 months will be ...    more

IBM VC Calls For Open Hardware - EE Times Story from EDP Workshop in Monterey - EE Times has a story on something called Open Hardware.. I consider this a very interesting idea and one worth noting.    more

HP Chooses a New CEO - Former NCR CEO, Mark Hurd, to lead HP into the future - At this point in HP’s history, Mark Hurd is the right man for the CEO job at HP. Without a doubt, he...    more

Sony's PSP - The Birth of a Mobile Entertainment Revolution - My son Ben and I have been playing with the new Sony PSP for a couple of weeks now and have been abl...    more

Cellular Phones go Multimeida - News from the Cellular show in New Orleans - I recently spent a couple of days in New Orleans at the large CTIA show and spent most of my time meeting with companies who have new products and services in this mobile cellular telecommunications space.    more

Wireless USB - Could it kill off Bluetooth? - I spent part of last week at the Intel Developers Forum in San Francisco and although the big news f...    more

Youth Intelligence - Gen X Gen Y Research - Over the last three years, Creative Strategies has been looking very closely at the Gen X (ages 25-3...    more

PDA's in Decline? - Death of the PDA is Greatly Exaggerated - When I was in high school, the term PDA stood for ‘public display of affection.’ But by 1992, these ...    more

Red Herring's GSM report - Music on Cell Phones - The Red Herring did a great piece on GSM World news and specifically the multiple announcements about cell phones becoming music players.    more

Washington Post on Bit Torrent and Grokster - High Tech Tension Over Legal Issues - Jonathan Kim at the Washington Post did a great piece on Bit Torrent and Grokster and the legal issues surrounding them.    more

Tivo To Go - Great Product for Road Warriors - As a mobile road warrior that has to travel close to 100,000 miles a year, I don’t get a lot of time...    more

Breaking Up HP - Why I Believe This Is a Bad Idea - Now that the dust has settled a bit from the dismissal of Carly Fiorina, HP’s former CEO, I wanted t...    more

Blogging "Sucks" - Two Blogging Trends To Watch - One of the more fascinating trends in this Internet age is blogging. Interestingly, when the Internet started gaining popularity in the late 1990’s and it looked like it was going to become the next major publishing medium, the idea of creating your own Web pages and allowing them to become a main source for personal content and commentary started to take off.    more

US Government scrutinizes IBM/Lenovo deal - What took them so long? - Now that the US government has had some time to think about the IBM/Lenovo deal, it finally struck t...    more

Intel's New Business Units - Why This New Structure Is Important to Intel's Future - Intel just announced a re-org that represents a more practical approach to creating products for the...    more

HP's Re-org and Its Market Impact - Why PSG is now under VJ - The HP re-org that sees VJ take over the personal systems group is a very wise move for HP and it sh...    more

Mac Mini and iPod Shuffle. - Why They Are Big Winners For Apple - The Mac Mini ($499/$599) and the iPod Shuffle ($99 for 512mb and$149 with 1 gig memory) are products...    more

CES 2005- What to expect this year - Top Themes, Trends and Procducts - CES has become one of the largest trade shows in North America and is now the center of the tech sho...    more

Oracle and Peoplesoft Deal-Not just industry consolidation - Bigger Trend represented by this deal - The Oracle Peoplesoft deal represents more then the consolidation of the software industry. Although...    more

Tim Bajarin's 2005 Predictions - Top five predictions for the New Year - Each year at this time I am asked for my predictions for the New Year. I have been making my yearly...    more

IBM Selling off PC business - The Real Challange in Selling the PC business - The news that IBM is looking at selling off their PC business should not come as a shock. IBM’s inte...    more

Global Planetary Computing - AMD's goes after new market - One of America’s funniest comedians was a fellow named Rodney Dangerfield whose one liners where leg...    more

Recordable Media - New Pact Could Change Use and Functionality of DVDs - I have some interesting news about upcoming advances but, before I give you the answer to this quest...    more

Thin is In - Mobile Enterprise Magazine - Part of the problem with early laptops was it felt like you were dragging around a desktop in a bag....    more