In just-announced fourth-quarter earnings, Google handily beat expectations for fourth-quarter profits. They rose fivefold (thanks to some $1 billion in writeoffs a year ago) on a 17% jump in sales, both considerably higher than analysts expected. But investors clearly had hoped for more, and they were sending Google’s shares down 5% in after-hours trading. I’m [...]
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There’s really not much else to say about Google’s just-announced Nexus One cell phone. You can read more than you want to read about it on Techmeme, plus reviews by Walt Mossberg, Mike Arrington, Tim O’Reilly, Joshua Topolsky at Engadget, and others. The gist: It looks like a very nice but not revolutionary alternative to [...]
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I just foolishly offered some predictions on what will happen in tech and and on the Internet this year (and what won’t happen). Now, I’d like to offer a few things that I wish would happen: * Cell phones provide decent call quality. I really don’t get folks who don’t have a landline, because cell [...]
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Against my better judgment, I just posted a few predictions for the parts of tech and the Internet that I pay attention to. But maybe it’s just as important to note what won’t happen: * Tablets won’t be the next big thing in client computing. Oh, Apple will create a lot of buzz over whatever [...]
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Predictions may be more useful for the writer than the reader. After all, if you’re as specific or as provocative as you should be, you’re going to be wrong at least half the time, and that’s not a very dependable percentage to prove your worthiness as a futurist. For me and other prognosticators, though, predictions [...]
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