The gray lady reports today that Tivo was close to a deal with Comcast (free registration required) to put TiVo technology into Comcast’s set-top-boxes, but TiVo’s board backed out based on the recommendation of Michael Ramsey, then CEO and Chairman. Now, Ramsey has resigned the CEO position, but remains as chairman. An interesting read, for sure. If TiVo continues to make boneheaded moves like this, the company won’t be worth much more than the spiffy plush TiVo mascot I have on my office shelf. Sad, really.
Is that an Elbow?
Baby Trotz is coming along nicely. Amy still has plenty of energy – enough to play two gigs daily recently for the Fox Theater production of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, anyway! A bit tired from time to time, but nothing too bad. And sleeping is getting tough. Anyway, we’re now at the point where we can feel the little one stretching their legs/feet/hands – enough so that we can feel it when we touch Amy’s belly. Crazy stuff. My brother described his twins looking like sharks under his wife’s stomach in their later stages, so I guess this is typical, even without twins.
G5 Powerbook/iBook by Q2?!?
Despite Apple claims just last week that ‘thermal challenges‘ might delay the announcement of portable G5 laptops, Taiwanese tech magazine DigiTimes reports on two manufacturers there ready to ship G5 portables in quantity by the end of Q2 2005. The report is headlined in ho-hum fashion: ‘Sources: Taiwan makers receive Apple’s Mac mini and iPod shuffle orders.’ Yawn. Well, what the report fails to highlight is that two Taiwanese vendors are on track to ship 200k+ portables to Apple by Q2 2005.
Asustek Computer is making the iPod shuffle, and is tapped in this report to ship G5 iBooks in quantity before the end of Q2. Quanta is reported to be on track to ship 30-50k Powerbook G5s per month in Q2.
I’m keeping my fingers crossed.
Bill Gates: Teen Idol
BoingBoing reports on this posting from monkey methods’ blog: photos allegedly from a ‘Teen Beat’ magazine story on Bill Gates, circa 1983. My favorite part of these is not the vintage nostalgia, yadda yadda, but rather the fact that what looks like a 512k Mac appears on the desk next to his stinky AT in the background. I seriously doubt that you’d find a Dual-G5 and Cinema Display sharing space with Mr. Gates P4 if you visited his office at Redmond these days…