There are several reasons why Amazon’s new Kindle Fire – and the larger Kindle line – is disruptive (my take here).

During today’s NFL playoffs game, you may have seen the Blackberry spot featuring Blackberry’s App World and the Urbanspoon application. The advertisement is well done and features small business owners (right in Blackberry’s sweet spot) …

The New York Times is claiming today that iPhone owners do not use their devices for work:
A new report from Compete surveying the behavior of 600 smartphone users found that 73 percent of iPhone …

Three interesting notes from the Blackberry App World FAQ / developer announcement that was released.
Minimum Price of $2.99?
The iPhone has proven that there are pricepoints for three types of apps:
1. Free (ad-supported)
2. $0.99 (consumers consider …

TechCrunch posted this morning about the top tech gadgets as measured by eBay’s top sales (always a good indication of macro-level trending and habits… one reason why I enjoyed working at eBay so much).
Michael …

Want proof that mobile is atop everyone’s mind? First, I was part of a great dinner last night with twelve or so valley entrepreneurs… without forcing the topic, the conversation quickly turned to:
- the iPhone
- …

While at dinner two nights ago, the four of us around the table started talking about our new iPhones… which we had all traded in blackberries for. After some apps were showed off and the …

I’m likely not stating anything revolutionary here, but it is worth noting that what Jobs and Apple have built with the iPhone 3G is revolutionary. I traded my Blackberry in for the iPhone two days …

InGameNow formally launched two weeks ago – giving sports fans the ability to receive real-time scores, analysis and rumors via mobile, web and instant messenger.
Today, InGameNow has launched an important new feature: the ability …

Yesterday, I wrote about how Techmeme’s Leaderboard is shifting dramatically and both the analysis and reader feedback suggested that the biggest risers on Techmeme have been gadget blogs – specifically Apple and mobile blogs.
Robert …

I love my blackberry. And I’ve written about how much I love it.
I am disappointed by the ‘iPhone 2.0′ – it doesn’t have video recording – let alone MMS.
… But today I dropped …

It was about a year ago that Apple announced the iPhone and the tech world traded in their cell phones and blackberries for the slick, full-screened gadget. I was intrigued (and love the UI) but …