links for 2008-01-31
Nec Flask Cell Phone Is Pure Liquid Gold : Chip Chick [cool] The NEC Flask which will be released sometime in 2008, it is powered by a liquid fuel cell that dis...
Author: charlie
IDC is forecasting single-digit handset market growth in ’08
Wow, that’s harsh. The last few years’ growth has been over 10%, mostly above 20%, per year. But, we’ve known that it couldn’t last. I m...
Fjord designing sweet things for Barcelona World Mobile Congress
I was over at Fjord‘s Helsinki office, visiting Christian, who was in town. He pointed out that Fjord is going to have a booth at MWC and that they will b...
links for 2008-01-28
Brazilian Lessons for 2008 – New York Times It’s good to begin the year in a country where coconuts are cleaved with nonchalant grace and the air is salty...
Venter’s team takes the next step toward custom-built organisms
The biology maverick, Craig Venter, has rapidly taken the next step in creating custom organisms (link below to news article). Recently, his team managed to tes...
Paul Saffo on the Rules of Forecasting
Saffo to me was always some sort of weird wizard who thought and saw differently than others. I’ve met folks who channel the future, and it’s always...
links for 2008-01-26
January 30th is International Delete Your MySpace Account Day (tags: activism funny humor interesting internet myspace networking social SocialNetworking social...
The Coral Reef is sick: Twitter is now Stumblr.
Shel Israel is a long time veteran, on the leading edge of internet services. As a big Twitter user, he’s written an open letter to the Twitter team, spea...
Very frank CEOs
As part of my new job, I need to get back into the world of, ugh, corporate blogs. Well, seems like things have moved pretty far since I was watching the scene ...
Nice quarter for the company
Nokia just announced their quarterly earnings. Not bad. What was astounding, as usual, was the scale of sales. Cameras – 200 million? Wow. Link: Nokia Q4 ...