The question was familiar, but it was the first time a reporter had asked me to go on the record since I left PalmSource. She said, “Given all the uncertainty about Palm, should people avoid buying their products?”
I asked what uncertainty she meant […]

When I worked at Palm, I was always amazed at how different the mobile market looked in various parts of the world. Although human beings are basically the same everywhere, the mobile infrastructure (key companies, government regulation, relative pe […]

I think it’s very likely that recent changes in Symbian-land will open a new chapter in the soap opera over the company’s ownership structure. At the end, there will probably either be some significant new Symbian owners, or Nokia will finally be ma […]

Computer Outlook is a syndicated radio program that covers various computing topics (it’s also streamed over the Internet, so you can hear it by going to the website). They did a boradcast live from the last PalmSource developer conference, and I h […]

At the end of October, Microsoft’s Ray Ozzie and Bill Gates wrote internal memos announcing that Microsoft must pursue software services. The memos were leaked to the public, I believe intentionally. They drove enormous press coverage of Microsoft’s […]

The Register picked up an article from DigiTimes reporting that Microsoft’s seeking bids to create a sub-$300 Windows Mobile smartphone.
At first the article made no sense to me because it’s easy today to create a Windows Mobile or Palm Powered sma […]

There was an interesting little tidbit buried deep in a recent NY Times story on Microsoft and software as a service:
“For the last few months, Google has talked with Wyse Technology, a maker of so-called thin-client computers (without hard drives). […]

I’m working on a posting about software as a service. During my research, I reviewed Microsoft’s recent executive memos on the subject. As always happens when I read Microsoft’s stuff, I was struck by the loving craftsmanship that goes into those do […]

It’s philosophy time. If you’re looking for comments on the latest smartphone, you can safely skip this post.
One of the nice side effects of doing a job search in Silicon Valley is that you get to step back and take a broader view of the industry. […]