An observation: While driving I am either listening to the radio or talking on the phone. Furthermore, the car is the only place I actually listen to the radio and is the place I do most of my music listening. And by the looks of things when I see what other drivers are doing, I would say I am part of the majority.
Shouldn't the XM radio listing be shown on the NAV screen,
Visual Voice Mail
Satellite images
Weather report
Sports scores
Bills to pay
Alarm system on and off control
Updates to the maps
Nav should record where you have been, along with fuel economy, then provide feed back on driving habits to improve economy
Shouldn't the iPhone or Touch be built into the nav system… i.e.… the Touch would sync with iTunes over 802.11 when the car is running and all the content, etc. would be available in the car… which btw is the locale where most humans with cars listen to music (except when they are at their computer).
The car needs to be networked. This would be good for the car companies, carriers, consumer, and cell phone industry. Add another account to my bill... and charge me another $10 a month, plus some coin for each application.
Friday, April 04, 2008
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Investment Ideas
Energy
Oil dependence is a huge issue. At the same time energy use will contine to rise for use with data centers. Solar and wind can help hugely. Plus rails if they can improve their point to point delivery. Big issue of course is oil for transport. Boone Pickens believes oil will fall to $85 in Q2 before raising. Is there a way to short via a fund?? Data Centers are huge power users, and growing. Servers use power and turn it into heat that has to be removed. And the mega trends are to make more processing in data centers and less at the end points.. particularly mobile endpoints.... with SaaS, collaboration, content access with consistent experience. etc.
I still don't understand why there is not a car that is built for efficiency. A car needs something like 75 HP to go 70MPH, so make a car with a 100HP motor, and provide acceleration with a battery. It should be intelligent, knowing in advance based on GPS where you are going and knowing when to start the engine, based on where you are headed and its battery level.
Oil dependence is a huge issue. At the same time energy use will contine to rise for use with data centers. Solar and wind can help hugely. Plus rails if they can improve their point to point delivery. Big issue of course is oil for transport. Boone Pickens believes oil will fall to $85 in Q2 before raising. Is there a way to short via a fund?? Data Centers are huge power users, and growing. Servers use power and turn it into heat that has to be removed. And the mega trends are to make more processing in data centers and less at the end points.. particularly mobile endpoints.... with SaaS, collaboration, content access with consistent experience. etc.
I still don't understand why there is not a car that is built for efficiency. A car needs something like 75 HP to go 70MPH, so make a car with a 100HP motor, and provide acceleration with a battery. It should be intelligent, knowing in advance based on GPS where you are going and knowing when to start the engine, based on where you are headed and its battery level.
Sunday, February 04, 2007
Start up Services
why are there not business services that really cater to startups? in a web2.0, SOA sense
real estate, utilities, janitorial
startup level services like voice services
HR-- documentation, policy,
Benefits-- all online
payroll
purchasing-- something that generates PO's ... approved vendors, routing of approvals,
banking-- sweeping cash, minimize checks
expense reporting
payments-- paytrust, matches to PO, all pdf, vouchering/accounting
accounting, budget
network, routers, servers, phones
real estate, utilities, janitorial
startup level services like voice services
HR-- documentation, policy,
Benefits-- all online
payroll
purchasing-- something that generates PO's ... approved vendors, routing of approvals,
banking-- sweeping cash, minimize checks
expense reporting
payments-- paytrust, matches to PO, all pdf, vouchering/accounting
accounting, budget
network, routers, servers, phones
Hyperconnectivity
It's been talked about... its really about personal connectivity. Seems like there are two levels...
High-speed low latency (gaming, voice, real time video, security)
Low speed, sooner or later (sync of files, back up, temp sensors)
Shouldn't something at the originator id what the requirements are for latency, and QOS
What devices come out of this?? sensors, that turn off and on and sip small amounts of power
Add the auto to the network
High-speed low latency (gaming, voice, real time video, security)
Low speed, sooner or later (sync of files, back up, temp sensors)
Shouldn't something at the originator id what the requirements are for latency, and QOS
What devices come out of this?? sensors, that turn off and on and sip small amounts of power
Add the auto to the network
Saturday, January 13, 2007
Come On Steve... take my money now!
An iPod is so old school.... why do I need to carry it, charge it, plug it in ????
I want to get into my car (keyless), have the car know its me (the fob), adjust my seats, stations, mirrors... and my system in the dash sync ... my music, podcasts, voicemail, weather, maps, recent searchs, etc.
Connecting by 802.11 b/g/n, 802.16d/e, GPRS, Edge, HSDPA, 1X, EVDO rev A/C....
a networked car... no pieces are missing. Just the glue.
Steve, its a gold mine. People are spending $3000 on systems for the car and fretting over spending an extra $100 on a phone. And the carrier can get a data account that does not have to be always on (wow, so they can use free air time!!!!).
I want to get into my car (keyless), have the car know its me (the fob), adjust my seats, stations, mirrors... and my system in the dash sync ... my music, podcasts, voicemail, weather, maps, recent searchs, etc.
Connecting by 802.11 b/g/n, 802.16d/e, GPRS, Edge, HSDPA, 1X, EVDO rev A/C....
a networked car... no pieces are missing. Just the glue.
Steve, its a gold mine. People are spending $3000 on systems for the car and fretting over spending an extra $100 on a phone. And the carrier can get a data account that does not have to be always on (wow, so they can use free air time!!!!).
iPhone, AMEX application, my Portal
Apple is going to roll out OSX 10.5 with TImeMachine which will require an external hard drive, and their only external hard drive is 40G? Stick a 400G drive, increase the price by $125 and suddenly there is new reason to buy. I would prefer the hard drive to be in the router, but they didn't offer that either.
When are we going to hear what OSX iPhone has? and what tools to develop to the UI are available. I want my phone to be my remote... I want to interface with my Tivo via my phone by touching the TV guide on my phone... I have this already in a $300 device... but its a separate, dumb device that I can't take to work. With iPhone I can!! Drat those walled garden, ATT types. I thought they would be the experts on closed systems after Carter Phone, then the Break Up... allowing Whittaker to roll them all up is really rolling back the clock. Come on Web 2.0 crowd... we really need move them to the current century.
... When am I going to be able to get on My Web Page, and be able to see my contacts from my wireless phone, my voicemail, my bills that need to be paid, my bank accounts, the stocks I own, my EOBs from my insurance company, my calendar, my email, my grocery list, the notification that my cleaners has my stuff ready???? It's my portal... This is not what Yahoo has.... yet.
... when is my iPhone going to get a pop up everytime I hit my company AMEX card??? it should show up, and I should be able to gesture it into a category... Meals, Airfare, Local Transport, Parking& Taxi.. Office Supplies... what are the other silly categories??? and when it pops up... the thing knows the date, it knows the vendor (so it should suggest the same category as last time). And because this will be so awesome and a realitve pain in the ass to spend cash, users will use the AMEX and not cash!! Huge value add!!
When are we going to hear what OSX iPhone has? and what tools to develop to the UI are available. I want my phone to be my remote... I want to interface with my Tivo via my phone by touching the TV guide on my phone... I have this already in a $300 device... but its a separate, dumb device that I can't take to work. With iPhone I can!! Drat those walled garden, ATT types. I thought they would be the experts on closed systems after Carter Phone, then the Break Up... allowing Whittaker to roll them all up is really rolling back the clock. Come on Web 2.0 crowd... we really need move them to the current century.
... When am I going to be able to get on My Web Page, and be able to see my contacts from my wireless phone, my voicemail, my bills that need to be paid, my bank accounts, the stocks I own, my EOBs from my insurance company, my calendar, my email, my grocery list, the notification that my cleaners has my stuff ready???? It's my portal... This is not what Yahoo has.... yet.
... when is my iPhone going to get a pop up everytime I hit my company AMEX card??? it should show up, and I should be able to gesture it into a category... Meals, Airfare, Local Transport, Parking& Taxi.. Office Supplies... what are the other silly categories??? and when it pops up... the thing knows the date, it knows the vendor (so it should suggest the same category as last time). And because this will be so awesome and a realitve pain in the ass to spend cash, users will use the AMEX and not cash!! Huge value add!!
Sunday, January 07, 2007
Apple, Own the Living Room and Car
Common Steve... you own the teenagers pocket, have the interface, design, and brand.
People do not want and ugly computer in the living room with wires, and yet, MSFT is about to provide a GUI that competes... get on with it and own the living room. Just buy Tivo, move it to your interface, charge $200 and make it make money. 10.5 requires an external harddrive to make Time Machine useful, and the heavy weight content is intended for the living room (video, gaming and music) where should it be store (my vote is connected to the media center). Why not fix the media center interface issue at the same time.... use the iPod interface, or a Tivo remote... the hardware has connectors on the back side. Provide a MIB, and API, and get the user community to tie it to a hardened user GUI for the audio and video controls. Apple wins!! then use that platform for home automation (intercomm, security/HVAC control, lighting control). I want a iPod mini like controller at the wall switch.... it will sense my presnese (maybe based on my touch or based on the bluetooth signal, or based on my car fob signal... ) and do things... my music, my temp, my mail, my alerts, my schedule, my pictures and photographs....
Deploy Tivo/auto... this concept of carrying a device (iPod) around to have our environment is ridiculous. You have to plug it in the car?? or worse plug it into another device so it can send radio waves to the car to hear it on the speakers... that is even more clumsy and inelegant and very unApple like. Put a Mac in the dash, provide the interface, get 4 firms to build the apps: navigation (Garman/Google search), music (iTunes), vmail (Nortel), traffic (Google), weather. Network the thing (Intel/Nortel).
People do not want and ugly computer in the living room with wires, and yet, MSFT is about to provide a GUI that competes... get on with it and own the living room. Just buy Tivo, move it to your interface, charge $200 and make it make money. 10.5 requires an external harddrive to make Time Machine useful, and the heavy weight content is intended for the living room (video, gaming and music) where should it be store (my vote is connected to the media center). Why not fix the media center interface issue at the same time.... use the iPod interface, or a Tivo remote... the hardware has connectors on the back side. Provide a MIB, and API, and get the user community to tie it to a hardened user GUI for the audio and video controls. Apple wins!! then use that platform for home automation (intercomm, security/HVAC control, lighting control). I want a iPod mini like controller at the wall switch.... it will sense my presnese (maybe based on my touch or based on the bluetooth signal, or based on my car fob signal... ) and do things... my music, my temp, my mail, my alerts, my schedule, my pictures and photographs....
Deploy Tivo/auto... this concept of carrying a device (iPod) around to have our environment is ridiculous. You have to plug it in the car?? or worse plug it into another device so it can send radio waves to the car to hear it on the speakers... that is even more clumsy and inelegant and very unApple like. Put a Mac in the dash, provide the interface, get 4 firms to build the apps: navigation (Garman/Google search), music (iTunes), vmail (Nortel), traffic (Google), weather. Network the thing (Intel/Nortel).
National Issues for Congress
competitive issues
The cost of health care in the face of an aging baby boomer demographic is huge. Several things must be done. The cost of the system must be reduced. Insurance, administration needs to be cut. The actual use of health care must be reduced and become more efficient. The delivery (huge cost in moving from dr to dr, to test, waiting for test results, referals... it is insane. the patient has not econimic value in the process. This must change. there was an article a year ago in Business Week based on a book suggesting that computer modeling and partient/family history could be modeled and greatly impact the use of and cost of health care and pharma. This is in the national interest, and must be funded.
Transportation Systems. Rail for freight and passengers in urban and suburban areas must be funded. A rail corridor from Mexico to Texas for a new deep water port is obvious, but not nationalistic. This must be made a priority if goods from China are key for the next century.
The biggest consumer of oil, and the biggest polluter in the world is the automobile. Firstly we must get big polluters off the road. Old, grandfathered cars and trucks have got to go. Allow fines, impounding, pay credits.
On the wars, protecting our way of life. We soiled our hands. Supported the Shah, then supported Saddam against the Ayatollah, then supported the Taliban and Osama, now Osama says we should stay out, and we move in, then he attacks us as a wake up call, and we move into Iraq where a tyrant supporting one side in a civil war in a country that should be divided to its pre WW2 lines exists... get out, these are 1000 yr old issues, not something we will solve. We have meddled and they have a war going on that is based in culture and family lines. Not something we can solve and provided it does not impact us, should we. Get out. Maybe assist in rewriting maps... be a friend to all. Provided they don't arm and attach us when we aren't meddling stay out of it. --On Korea, they are arming, the bozo is a head case, building a nuclear arsenal, which is their right, except they agreed not to do so. We are obligated to attack and destroy. If the leadership remains, remove it.
- Cost of health car
- Impact of oil
- Global warming
The cost of health care in the face of an aging baby boomer demographic is huge. Several things must be done. The cost of the system must be reduced. Insurance, administration needs to be cut. The actual use of health care must be reduced and become more efficient. The delivery (huge cost in moving from dr to dr, to test, waiting for test results, referals... it is insane. the patient has not econimic value in the process. This must change. there was an article a year ago in Business Week based on a book suggesting that computer modeling and partient/family history could be modeled and greatly impact the use of and cost of health care and pharma. This is in the national interest, and must be funded.
Transportation Systems. Rail for freight and passengers in urban and suburban areas must be funded. A rail corridor from Mexico to Texas for a new deep water port is obvious, but not nationalistic. This must be made a priority if goods from China are key for the next century.
The biggest consumer of oil, and the biggest polluter in the world is the automobile. Firstly we must get big polluters off the road. Old, grandfathered cars and trucks have got to go. Allow fines, impounding, pay credits.
On the wars, protecting our way of life. We soiled our hands. Supported the Shah, then supported Saddam against the Ayatollah, then supported the Taliban and Osama, now Osama says we should stay out, and we move in, then he attacks us as a wake up call, and we move into Iraq where a tyrant supporting one side in a civil war in a country that should be divided to its pre WW2 lines exists... get out, these are 1000 yr old issues, not something we will solve. We have meddled and they have a war going on that is based in culture and family lines. Not something we can solve and provided it does not impact us, should we. Get out. Maybe assist in rewriting maps... be a friend to all. Provided they don't arm and attach us when we aren't meddling stay out of it. --On Korea, they are arming, the bozo is a head case, building a nuclear arsenal, which is their right, except they agreed not to do so. We are obligated to attack and destroy. If the leadership remains, remove it.
Sunday, October 29, 2006
Navigation with Google Maps
They could have this thing nailed.. but are missing the vision.
Maps are for mobility, GPS is for location, and a car is what makes up mobile. Put the network in the car! Google must run with out connectivity 100% of the time. Just allow Google to sync on occasion, like when its sitting in the garage to get new content, to sync with where the computer has been, to sync with the music and pod casts, to sync the weather, traffic, satellite, coupons, advertisement etc. What is so difficult??
Computer in the car-- conceptually take a notebook computer throw out the keyboard and screen, stick it under the seat or dashboard somewhere... hook up the video output to the nav screen aux, extend the USB to hook up an iPod, find a power supply that connects to 12v, use a mini wireless keybd and mouse that will snap to the back of the center console lid... (the primary interface must be the touch screen). Now wire in the GPS antenna, and connect a bridge to the ECU to pick up mileage, gas gauge, fuel use... after all you do want to know when to buy gas so that the software can tell you where your fav gas is the cheapest. Plus any diagnostics. Google can do the software. Dell or Apple can do the hardware.
Maps are for mobility, GPS is for location, and a car is what makes up mobile. Put the network in the car! Google must run with out connectivity 100% of the time. Just allow Google to sync on occasion, like when its sitting in the garage to get new content, to sync with where the computer has been, to sync with the music and pod casts, to sync the weather, traffic, satellite, coupons, advertisement etc. What is so difficult??
Computer in the car-- conceptually take a notebook computer throw out the keyboard and screen, stick it under the seat or dashboard somewhere... hook up the video output to the nav screen aux, extend the USB to hook up an iPod, find a power supply that connects to 12v, use a mini wireless keybd and mouse that will snap to the back of the center console lid... (the primary interface must be the touch screen). Now wire in the GPS antenna, and connect a bridge to the ECU to pick up mileage, gas gauge, fuel use... after all you do want to know when to buy gas so that the software can tell you where your fav gas is the cheapest. Plus any diagnostics. Google can do the software. Dell or Apple can do the hardware.
- I believe many of the places I look at on Google maps will be place I will go
- I believe that many places I go to, will be places I return to... dropping off the kids... I have to pick them up. Driving out of town to friends.... Going to a lake house...
Tuesday, September 05, 2006
Remote Control
Imagine something like this next to a light switch in everyroom.... but instead its the iPod UI with a nano screen. Not only will it act as a dimmer switch, but it can do all things you would expect it to
- Dim lights
- Adjust volume and change music, play list, stream
- Mated with a thermometer, adjust heat/cool
- With networking over the wiring or WiFi
- In package adaptor
- In location change out (replaces the single pole switch)
Tuesday, August 29, 2006
Home Gateway
Apple buys Tivo
Updates hardware... box made mini mac like, add 802.11n, add a iPod connector in the case cover, change remote to have iPod interface. These are a $100 value.
Software updates can be later... UI made mac like. unit to be the storage for time machine, program from mac, schedule on mac, mac a remote, add external gateway capability.. for thermostat, security, sprinkler, video doorbell
Updates hardware... box made mini mac like, add 802.11n, add a iPod connector in the case cover, change remote to have iPod interface. These are a $100 value.
Software updates can be later... UI made mac like. unit to be the storage for time machine, program from mac, schedule on mac, mac a remote, add external gateway capability.. for thermostat, security, sprinkler, video doorbell
Market entry
Auto PC... go after municipal vehicles... police cars, utility trucks, garbage trucks, buses, postal vehicles...
computer in the vehicle
GPS... simple, one click reporting of pre-entered entries..
computer in the vehicle
GPS... simple, one click reporting of pre-entered entries..
- road repair
- traffic signal out
- traffic accident
- tow required
- ambulance required
- unusual situation, police visit
Tuesday, July 04, 2006
Web 2.0
Service providers will end up handling the control layer and the bearer layer being routed point to point.. with the cotrol layer looking at the clients and t invoking a trancoding function if required.
Sunday, March 26, 2006
Web remote
How 'bout a small, lightweight portable remote... device connects via Bluetooth 2 (longer range) to a tv/pc... it would provide a local screen with internet access.
TV Guide
PVR programming
email
call logs
and the web
it would just remote the screen from the PC
a lite weight process, bluetooth, no HD, a couple of gigs of flash or a slot for flash memory so the thing could lug mp3s and video
no wifi because that would require too much power
but there would be a mouse, roller ball
key board (with better mouse rollerball) connectivieyt via bluetooth
a 7" screen
and a cradle charger... several hours of battery
non-vol memory so nothing gets lost
click button and screen on remote is on tv
TV Guide
PVR programming
call logs
and the web
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it would just remote the screen from the PC
a lite weight process, bluetooth, no HD, a couple of gigs of flash or a slot for flash memory so the thing could lug mp3s and video
no wifi because that would require too much power
but there would be a mouse, roller ball
key board (with better mouse rollerball) connectivieyt via bluetooth
a 7" screen
and a cradle charger... several hours of battery
non-vol memory so nothing gets lost
click button and screen on remote is on tv
Sunday, January 01, 2006
Networked cars
What about itunes, podcasting, one button voicemail, maps, weather maps, traffic, maps from google that in my car that I surfed on the web, location based services (like where is the closet gas station when my gas light goes on? where is my favorite gas brand/or the cheapest 91 Octane on my side of the road, when my gas level is 1/8 of a tank), how about arming my security system to away, and chaning my thermostat settings, changin my sprinkler settings at my home. what am I asking too much????
Needs traffic software, tracking of 'routine routings' so that means can be generated and evaluated.
Why aren't cars networked??
Think of a Minimac, a touch screen and a Apple remote, voice rec/and a bluetooth keyboard. Move the SuperDrive of the Mac to CD player location, and add a wireless broadband EVDO or UMTS radio module and a GPS antenna, add fan and its done. Minimac would be modifed by removing the DVD drive (moving it to the dashboard), adding a fan and radio module, moving antenna for 802.11n/GPS/cellular to a roof mount, and adding a heat sink in steam in a vent.
Cost:
Needs traffic software, tracking of 'routine routings' so that means can be generated and evaluated.
Why aren't cars networked??
Think of a Minimac, a touch screen and a Apple remote, voice rec/and a bluetooth keyboard. Move the SuperDrive of the Mac to CD player location, and add a wireless broadband EVDO or UMTS radio module and a GPS antenna, add fan and its done. Minimac would be modifed by removing the DVD drive (moving it to the dashboard), adding a fan and radio module, moving antenna for 802.11n/GPS/cellular to a roof mount, and adding a heat sink in steam in a vent.
Cost:
- $700 Mac or IPX system
- $700 Screen
- $300 Radio
- $100 antenna and coax
- $50 cooling
- Harness for wireing and harness for connecting to ECU $100
Say a 4 hour install time
Apple, cell phone guys, software guys, networking guys, computer guys, retail (Best Buy) and the auto companies all win...
Everyone wins.... computer guys get another enviroment, cell phone guys sell another device, service providers sell another account at at least $10/mo plus data, people like Vonage win because they can use it as a launch point for converged voicemail, people like Sony/Clarion/Pioneer etc. get a new aftermarket category, BestBuy wins.... pod casters win
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