6 posts and columns on Houston

With Goopon Stealing the Spotlight, Tippr Says Don't Forget About No. 3 (Or Its Patents)

in Commerce on December 2, 2010 at 7:00 am PT

Tippr CEO Martin Tobias hopes that between Google’s potential big-ticket purchase of Groupon and Amazon’s rumored investment in LivingSocial, consolidation in the group-buying space will accelerate as others scramble for a partner.

Steve Jobs: AT&T’s iPhone Problems Should Get Better “By the End of the Summer”

in D8 on June 1, 2010 at 7:56 pm PT

Will Apple ditch AT&T for Verizon or another carrier? Steve Jobs wouldn’t address that directly tonight at D8. But he did say that AT&T’s well-documented trouble handling calls made with his iPhone should improve soon. How soon? “By the end of the summer.”
Steve Jobs at D8

Using Web Tools to Control Legal Bills

in News on January 5, 2010 at 4:30 am PT

It is a challenging time for corporate law firms. The recession has shrunk legal budgets, and big clients are increasingly pressing lawyers to provide the same level of service at a reduced cost. Rarely known for their technological savvy, law firms are nonetheless turning to technology to try to address clients’ cost concerns.

Palm Pre: The Big Day …

in News on June 6, 2009 at 11:03 am PT

The Palm Pre officially went on sale this morning, and judging from initial reports–and my experience at a local northern California Sprint store–neither demand or supply was particularly overwhelming. Certainly, lines for the device were far shorter than those that extended from Apple stores for the launches of the iPhone and the iPhone 3G. Arriving outside my local Sprint store about an hour after they first opened, I found not a queue of eager Pre-buyers, but two kids making forts out of a few Pre shipping boxes left outside the store.
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