T-Mobile Taps “Surface” to Jazz-Up In-Store Experience

T-Mobile USA, the number three domestic carrier by volume, is looking to up the ante with its in-store experience—inking a deal to install Microsoft’s new coffee table computers, dubbed “Surface.”  With its announcement…

The Widgets are Coming! The Widgets are Coming!

It seems that every VC I meet out here in Silicon Valley is talking about Widgets these days. They love the low development costs and easy portability. As personal publishing becomes more wide spread, being able to cut and paste useful little…

Reading A Good E-book?

It is easy to spot the trends of technology based efficiency and cooler, better products. But in the midst of this race to somewhere ‘better,’ one aspect of our daily lives has not changed much – to read a book, we continue to hold a bound bunch of paper the size of our belly…

Apple DRM Brouhaha: Big Deal or Big Yawn?

A topic that has been getting some heavy blog-time this week is the discovery that the DRM-Free music purchased via Apple’s iTunes isn’t really so DRM-Free. True, the music file is actually devoid of any playback preventing DRM encryption, but what it…

The Tale of the Biggest-Ever Tradeshow BlueCast

Like all good stories, this one has ups and downs, love and loss, drama and suspense…Â

(Heavy on the suspense).

It began shortly, shortly ago, in a land not, not so far away (about 10 hours on…

uWink Makes Eating Interactive

In the struggle for eyeballs or butts in seats for all retailers, theater chains and other assorted business that depend on mass traffic, leveraging digital content solutions is on the cusp of an explosion.

More iPhone Hype

I’m going to put $50 on the iPhone not being as huge of a success as everyone says it will.

That’s right. Online gambling laws aside, the first person to respond to this post could win $50 (U.S.) if Apple’s iPhone turns into a stellar hit when it’s released on June…

More on uWink…

From a technical perspective the infrastructure used to make the magic happen at uWink is fairly straightforward. An account is setup on their central computer by the host when you arrive and is temporarily linked to an RFID card you are given. You use a ‘big-button’ UI on a touchscreen to place…