According to Qualcomm Apple is planning to move to inferior Intel Modems for their next generation of premium smartphones. Qualcomm modems currently outperform Intel Modems by a significant margin on a number of critical metrics. In fact, Intel is so […]
Apple Pivots to Cheap: Will Customers Pay Premium Prices for an Inferior Smartphone? Read More »
HP is the ”comeback king” this decade—in that the firm started out with little chance of success, and that seemed to focus it on a level of execution we rarely see outside of successful startups. Back at the beginning of
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We don’t take security seriously enough—particularly with regard to our personal device use. The communications we have with these devices can be work-related, finance-related, medical in nature or legal in nature, and involve people like our kids or parents who
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I’ve got four very different laptops, all current looking at me this week begging to be used. I have the Asus NovaGo and the Lenovo Miix 630 Always-Connected-PCs, the Microsoft Surface Book, and the Dell Latitude 7390. Oh, and I
Why Is It So Hard To Choose A Laptop? Read More »
A couple of weeks back I was at Cisco Live and I met with the executives of three interesting startups that Cisco is helping financially. These firms were very different and mostly had little to do with Cisco’s core business,
Three Companies Cisco Is Husbanding Into a Better Future For the World (and Car Racing!) Read More »
Brian Krzanich has become the latest CEO to lose his job due to an inability to keep his marriage vows or comply with company policy and not diddle a subordinate. This is not some new behavior, I know of several
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I’m at C-Scape, Cisco’s big analyst event which is held during Cisco Live, this week. One of the more interesting sessions was by Jonathan Rosenberg who is the VP and CTO of Cisco’s collaboration business. What caught my attention is
Cisco and Collaboration Read More »
Equipping a conference room used to be really easy. You’d specify a speaker phone for the room, maybe select a couple of white boards and a flip chart, specify a conference table and chairs and that’d be about it. Video
Lenovo Wants to Simplify Conference Room Collaboration with the ThinkSmart Hub 700 Read More »
Virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR)—which we now call mixed reality—has had two very serious problems that I think could have been solved had the industry just approached this segment properly. Before we get to the Qualcomm XR1 platform
Qualcomm XR1: Finally Making Mixed Reality Viable Read More »
This week there was another FBI scandal. This one was on how the FBI massively overinflated the numbers of phones they needed access to in order to “protect the nation.” For some time now, they’ve been arguing that they need
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