John Chen, BlackBerry’s CEO, continues to impress with solid results as reflected in their latest financial report. If the firm was just more visible it would likely do even better. But, despite the fact that the firm isn’t well known […]
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Amazing is a subjective term. For instance, while there were many incredible improvements to word processing products in the 1980s, the most amazing to me was the spell checker because I’ve never been able to spell consistently to save my
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This week had several more wins for Qualcomm—one of them public and one of them very quiet. The public one had Qualcomm win a jury trial in San Diego where three patents were valued at $.50 each per phone which
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BlackBerry has successfully transitioned from being a smartphone vendor to something very different. They still have the leading operating system for automobiles and nuclear power plants (QNX), which is arguably (and has to be) the most secure in segment. The
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I get a lot of laptops in to test but one has stood out this year and that is the Lenovo Yoga C630. This is the first of the second-generation of “always connected” PCs powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 850
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One of the most painful efforts I’ve ever seen was Google’s roll out of Google Glass. Some Nimrod there thought it would be a good idea to roll out what was an Alpha product, make people testing it pay for
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One of the things I’ve been impressed with is Dell’s acquisition process. They are the only company that regularly makes company acquisitions that generally end up being worth more then they paid. With other firms it seems to be more
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This week I was at the historic competition between IBM’s Project Debater and one of the top human debaters in the world and it was fascinating. It wasn’t just fascinating that an AI could even do this, but that the
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Both Chuck Robbins and Michael Dell went on camera (you can find the videos of the what they said here) talking about taxes and poverty at Davos this year and their positions are fascinating. Chuck Robbins believes that—with focus—companies like
I’m ex-law enforcement and I spent a considerable amount of time as an auditor. In both practices there is supposed to be some rigor to how conclusions are reached before a criminal or an executive behaving badly is brought up
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