Van Baker

Cisco announced that they are buying Pure Digital the maker of the low cost Flip video camera. Cisco states that this product fits nicely into their home networking strategy. I am not impressed with this purchase for a number of reasons. First Cisco is an enterprise networking company in their DNA. They have never been [...]

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Sony and Google have announced that they will have 500,000 public domain titles available for the Sony Reader for free. This is a very smart move on the part of Sony as it instantly broadens the appeal of the Sony Reader and addresses one of the complaints about the Sony Reader namely that the available [...]

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Apple has introduced a new iPod Shuffle that has no controls on the player. The device is small and is relatively non-descript with the only logo on the back of a stainless steel clip. Instead of buttons that control the device the controls are built into the headphone cord. With the control button you can [...]

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Sony recently announced a new Blu-ray player with integrated 802.11n Wi-Fi connectivity. The networking configuration for the player is different from its networked television sets which have Ethernet built in. The network connectivity is necessary to support BD Live which adds interactivity to recent versions of Blu-ray movies that offer interactive content including integrated games, [...]

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There has been speculation in the trade press that Nintendo is attempting to compete with the iPod Touch with the launch of the DSi which as a music player and two cameras built in. The CEO of Nintendo has denied this in his blog, Iwata Asks Nintendo DSi and states that the DSi with it [...]

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Amazon has made a very smart move with the launch of its Kindle Reader for the iPhone. The Kindle faces a challenging market mostly due to its $360 price tag. While mobile professionals have applauded the Kindle it has little appeal outside the mobile professional segment and this is limited to somewhere between 10 and [...]

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