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Almost Famous: Elemental Technologies' Sam Blackman

in News on November 20, 2009 at 3:01 pm PT

This week: We caught up with Sam Blackman, CEO of Elemental Technologies at the San Francisco NewTeeVee Live conference. Elemental Technologies hopes to become a major player in the future of online and over-the-air video through its high-performance encoding technology.
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Kindle on Campus, Fall 2009: Will You Be One of the Lucky 300?

in Media on May 6, 2009 at 12:24 pm PT

All geared up to use a Kindle DX when you head back to school next fall? The odds are against you: Amazon and six colleges are conducting the most preliminary of tests. Which means only a few dozen students at each school are going to get their mitts on the $489 gadgets.
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When Steve Jobs Said “Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish” — He Did Not Mean This Foolish

in News on January 15, 2009 at 2:53 am PT

The restless frenzy is what is perhaps most disturbing of all about the never-ending obsessive death watch that has centered on Apple CEO Steve Jobs. What doesn’t make your skin crawl about it? That’s why BoomTown thinks it is time to listen to the wise words Jobs delivered at a now legendary Stanford Commencement address in 2005. The last words of the speech came from the back of “The Whole Earth Catalog”: “Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.” I think right about now, that foolish part has gone way too far for Jobs and the rest of us.