I almost missed this one. L&H makes THE speech recognition tools used by everybody from TellMe to BeVocal to AT&T. They were poised to benefit from the emergence of the Voice Web better than most. Apparently they blew it. More articles below.. —–...
I really need to get a life if I find this sort of stuff interesting. Tamiya took the targeting and kill confirmation systems that NATO uses in their ground warfare exercises and made it smaller. If you’ve never seen it before, it’s bullet-free carnage....
Bill Gates unveiled the XBOX at CES this past week. There is an interesting technical comparison between it and the other nextgen gaming platforms on the XBOX web site. http://www.xbox.com/xbox/flash/specs.asp This release would have been a minor event if SONY had...
FOIB rule #342: Any time a company hints towards or declares itself as being repositioned into a fully-buzzword-compliant market strategy, they’re toast. Like Atari and Nintendo before them, Sega is now circling the drain. In this case, the dead cat will not...
Further proof that we still live in a society where loud complainants are rewarded, regardless of the public interest. The alarming subtext of the article below is Yahoo’s buckling under pressure from a special interest group, called LICRA, who succeeded in...
Something dragged me into the bookstore the other day, and $53 later I know what it was. Hunter S. Thompson is a strange bird, and throughout his life he has kept and filed carbon copies of every letter that ever belched forth from his typewriter. He also filed all of...
WAPathy. [see below] I wish I’d thought of this term. Bryan Robertson calls WAP the “Internet in My Pants”. I wish I’d thought of that, too. Those few of you bored enough to read this list know how I feel about WAP. It’s not so much that...
This is suspiciously like what happened to someone I know very well who dealt with an Idealab! company. Perhaps Bill Gross conducts seminars on how to pull the ol’ contract switcheroo when hooking up talent. -Ian....
So, when your company is going belly up, it there really any point whatsoever in suing another company who, in similar fashion, is also going belly up? Well, that’s the Idealab! way. At Idealab! they’re pretty big on patents for stupid things, exploiting...
Ian Andrew Bell has been bending bits into business since 1993. He created Tingle, RosterBot, RingCentral, and other things celebrated and ignominious.
He is also a Hockeyist, Motorcyclist, and Aviation Enthusiast. Follow him on twitter as @ianb or find him on LinkedIN.
