If the odds were against Palm already, they're now even worse. You would have a better chance of hitting '00' on a roulette table, twice in a row, then Palm surviving this much-hyped third (or fourth?) comeback. It's starting to rival Elvis... "looks good", "sounds good", "hardware's a little flaky",...

As Yogi Berra once said, it's déjà vu all over again. With Bing, Microsoft's latest salvo against industry giant Google, we have yet again another tired, lesser quality impersonator. Why bother? I wouldn't be surprised if Bing is Microsoft's shining example of innovation. Really? Really?! Really. Hundreds of thousands of engineers. Three...

I've been following the latest announcements on the Netbook front over the past few months. The perfect storm — bad economy, demand for portability, emergence of cloud computing — has resulted in an explosive market segment. Consumers are devouring these things like mad. The days of the $1,000+ laptop are...

A while back, I had written about CreditKarma.com, a company that gives approximations on your credit scores based on the major credit reporting companies (Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion) with what they claim is a +/-50 possible differential. I consider this latter caveat negligible if you factor in the convenience of...

Loni forwarded an email to me the other day about this new app available for the iPhone. It connects in to your solar system and enables you to track energy production on the fly, and on the go. I like it! Too bad I don't have an iPhone. I'm...

Guy Kawasaki must be a really busy guy, right? A well known entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, of Garage Technology Ventures, and now as I'm continuously reminded on Twitter, a new web site called Alltop. Turns out it's pretty interesting. A news aggregation service that allows you to quickly view the...

The Kindle is a curiosity. It seems to generate more hype than it deserves, and yet I can't help but think there is something there — I don't know what — that will transform something to something, or someone to something... or something like that. Maybe the newspaper industry will be saved....

An evening with economist Jeffrey Frankel requires a bottle of wine

Talk about portable! I came across this coffee gadget — there are a lot of them — on Gizmodo. It caught my attention, partly for the sheer absurdness, but also partly because I wondered if it was even possible to brew an espresso using something that looked like a slightly pregnant...