Right at the end of the ETel conference, I caught up with Sean Moss-Pulz, a product manager for OpenMoko to show me the FIC Neo1973 GPS/GSM/Bluetooth mobile phone. The phone is expected to ship next month for 350 US...

Google is just not conducive to create products according to Jeff Bonforte. During our conversation last Tuesday, the Yahoo director of Real-Time Communications told us a story about one of his best product manager that went to Google but...

Yesterday, I briefly attended a summit at Mountain View's Computer History Museum jointly organised by Intel and the United Nations Global Alliance for Information and communication technologies and Development (UNGAID). A United Nations initiative to bring the benefits of...

For analyst Nathan Brookwood, Intel has no other choice than to start building discreet graphics chip in order to keep dominance in the chipset market. Even the old integrated ATI or Nvidia chipset provide a better graphical experience than...

Shortly after AMD showed us their latest chipset integrating ATI's graphics engine, we asked analyst Rob Enderle his thoughts on the announcement. It's a significant launch. Not only AMD now matches Intel where they were strong at i.e. in...

Yesterday at O'Reilly's Emerging Telephony conference we sat down with GrandCentral COO Vincent Paquet to talk about the latest features and functions added to the company's personal assistant service....

At an international media lunch briefing, Yahoo Mail (left) and Instant Messenger (right) execs confirmed the company exclusive focus on the consumer market, not the enterprise. A few years ago, Yahoo launched an enterprise version of it's Instant Messenger...

After his Churchill Club chat with Forbes Magazine's Sr. Editor, Elizabeth Corcoran, I sat down with Nathan Myhrvold to talk about his latest company. Intellectual Ventures started in 2000 and is likened to a private equity firm but for...

I caught SAP's chief intellectual property officer on his way out to get his thoughts on software patents. For Tim Crean, copyrights protect the "expression" of an idea whereas patents protect the idea itself. "Both copyrights and patents are...

I'm here sitting at the Tech Policy Summit at the beautiful Dolce Hayes Mansion in San Jose. The Summit was created to offer an independent, non partisan forum to examine and discuss policy issues impacting technology innovation and adoption....