Lauren Goode in Commerce on December 29, 2011 at 9:30 am PT
While many are offering their tech predictions for 2012, we thought we’d take a moment to remember those that have gone to the tech-product graveyard.
Liz Gannes in Commerce on August 29, 2011 at 1:13 am PT
The first of Flip videocamera creator Jonathan Kaplan’s The Melt line of grilled cheese restaurants, first announced at this year’s
D9 conference, will open in San Francisco on Tuesday.
Joan E. Solsman, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on August 10, 2011 at 3:07 pm PT
Cisco Systems Inc.’s fiscal fourth-quarter earnings fell 36 percent, though the decline wasn’t quite as steep excluding significant charges and severance costs from restructuring, as the networking giant’s weaker margin offset a modest revenue increase.
Peter Kafka in D9 on June 19, 2011 at 10:11 am PT
In the fall of 2008, Sequoia Capital declared “RIP: Good Times.” Flash forward to present tense: Sequoia is now putting millions into The Melt, a new grilled cheese shop chain from former Flip CEO Jonathan Kaplan.
Kara Swisher in D9 on June 8, 2011 at 2:34 pm PT
Personally, I preferred “The Walt” over “The Kara.”
But the attendees of the ninth
D: All Things Digital conference seemed to like the grilled cheese sandwich made of “sharp” cheddar over more “experienced” gruyere, courtesy of a new start-up demo called Melt.
Arik Hesseldahl in D9 on June 1, 2011 at 10:17 am PT
Jonathan Kaplan still doesn’t know exactly why Cisco Systems opted to shut down its Flip Digital video camera unit rather than selling it. But he has a pretty good guess.
Drake Martinet in D9 on June 1, 2011 at 9:54 am PT
What do you do when Cisco buys your consumer product company and abruptly closes it down?
If you are Jon Kaplan, creator of the popular and now discontinued Flip camera line, you make a lot of grilled cheese.
Kara Swisher in News on April 12, 2011 at 1:08 pm PT
Right after BoomTown heard the sad news this morning that Cisco was jettisoning its Flip digital video camera division–part of a transparent effort to assure Wall Street that it was no longer serious about its wacky foray into the consumer market–I lobbed in a call to its founder Jonathan Kaplan to get him on video talking about the loss.
The Flip, of course, has been my go-to tool to harass and annoy Silicon Valley moguls, since it appeared on the scene many years ago. The technique for the simple device was to essentially stick it up someone’s nose until they cried “Uncle!” and told me what I wanted to know.
Drake Martinet, Associate Editor, All Things Digital in News on February 4, 2011 at 11:11 am PT
Today, the mark of smartphone obsession is bringing one everywhere with you–to dinner, to bed, to funerals, to the altar at your wedding.
If fledgling accessory maker Satarii has its way, the bar on obsession may be raised to having your phone follow you, even when you aren’t holding on to it.
Katherine Boehret in The Digital Solution on November 9, 2010 at 2:26 pm PT
Katie compares digital cameras for potential buyers as they begin their search for gifts during the holiday season.
