• Facebook IPO: What is in the S-1 to convice you its a good buy?

    Facebook’s IPO is going to be as big if not bigger than Google was a few years ago. The S-1 filling document is a very lengthy dry read that most people will skip. We are not most people. The S1 was very insightful. For one thing we don’t have to wonder if Zuck would still…

  • The word “AppStore” is fair to use by anyone so, says Judge

    Apple’s request that Amazon stop using the word “Appstore”  has been rejected. I am very happy with that. Appstore is so generic that a win would have opened up the door to many more lawsuits.   Apple filed against Amazon in March. They said at that time that Amazon’s “Appstore” infringed on Apple’s “App Store” trademark.…

  • This is an Alert. Had this been a real emergency, you would have gotten a text. A new mobile alert system comes to out

    New York,  FCC and wireless carriers have come out with a new emergency alert system. The system will be called  called PLAN. (Personalized Localized Alerting Network) The PLAN is to notify mobile users in a specific geographic location. So it will use the GPS of your mobile device to warn you of hazardous/life threatening situations around you. Here…