Who is the right customer for the Pre?

Someone who is still enamored and still uses by the Palm Pilot?

Are You the Wrong Customer for a Palm Pre?

• The device can be supported by existing IT infrastructure and will make many IT managers’ standards list.
• [Non-Palm] charging solutions may not work properly.
• Due to anticipated high demand, employee availability will delayed to first meet the needs of our customers.
• The sealed form factor of the device makes repairs challenging and the potential for damage is significant.
• Palm ® Pre™ Smokes the Competition

Sony wants rules for the Internet

It can’t deal with all these users and their Internets needs:

Sony CEO Proposes “Guardrails For the Internet”

What Stringer really needs is the Video Professor series on the Internet.

Simple things to keep the earth cool

Physics! 

Steven Chu, the US Secretary of Energy and a Nobel prize-winning scientist, said yesterday that making roofs and pavements white or light-coloured would help to reduce global warming by both conserving energy and reflecting sunlight back into space. It would, he said, be the equivalent of taking all the cars in the world off the road for 11 years.

The science is out on the color white.

Apple server farm

Is it about all about serving HD or something else?

Zune HD

Now featuring HD radio:

Microsoft would emphasize the new Zune’s HD radio feature, which will let users listen to radio in higher quality than via traditional radio services.

I don’t understand radio on a music player. What’s the point of that when you have podcasts and your own music library? And how is Microsoft going to push its subscription service when you can purportedly get higher quality music for free?

Strange.

Ovi Fail

Sad.

iPod Camera design mockup

iLounge (via DF) posts an artist rendition. Doesn’t seem right. You want the lens near the top (as iLounge notes) behind the screen instead of directly behind the click wheel. That simulates the mobile phone camera experience and is more natural.