Alec Saunders wonders about Jeff Pulver's challenge to the internet communications community: why isn't there a good real-time captions application? Answer: cuz it's super-hard (as I've discussed before ). The legal and medical transcription businesses...

I'm proud to say I once worked on this project, now honored by Wired as one of Apple's most notorious flops : The big lesson I learned is not to stick with a product that you don't use yourself. Pippin (named after a type of apple) was supposed to be...

The inevitable is happening, as today's WSJ and TechCrunch observe in the statistics showing China, at 210M users, is close to surpassing the U.S. in total population on the internet. If you don't already read Chinese, maybe this is a good time to set...

I got in trouble the last time I claimed the iPhone will fail , but now I see Garrett Smith is listing all the reasons the iPhone is the worst phone . I don't completely agree with Garrett -- his complaints about battery life, for example, apply to any...

If you haven't seen the video that Bill Gates showed at CES: Bill Gates Last Day CES Clip

Since D-Link's VoiceCenter is an important Microsoft Response Point partner, I had to visit their CES booth and see their new D-Life service. A beta version has been available in Taiwan for over a year, so the news at CES is that they're now ready to...

It was fun to be here in person watching Bill's final CES keynote. I won't repeat all the interesting announcements made here (Read M3's blog for the best summary). But look at the way he did a smooth handoff to Robbie Bach, president of the Entertainment...