Interview with Tony de Rijk of IDo Technology

I had an opportunity to talk with Tony de Rijk of IDo technology a company that is focusing on bringing together disparate protocols for home network and information products using wireless technology. An interesting space, in a growing area especially when considering you can control electricity and water making better “green” choices.

If you get a chance, listen to Tony talk about the business, the opportunity and the amount of funding he is attempting to raise. He also gives some contact information. The podcast is at http://socalbuzz.podbus.com/ido_final.mp3.

Apple Response Time?

A story was released in the major media outlets this morning about how personal information is being downloaded with the songs that one purchases on iTunes. Now, I am not sure that the information included is that sensitive, but that’s not what I find interesting about the event.

Apple, as a company, has a “no blogging” policy. Consequently, they will have to rely on the traditional methods to respond to the story. What I am interested in is just how long this will take? You know, with all the approvals and checkpoints in the traditional method, it might take a day or two.

Too bad they don’t have established blog channels where they could respond immediately and get their side in the media more quickly to diffuse the story.