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,
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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
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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
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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
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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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There is a lot of distrust surrounding the Intel brand at the moment largely due to a sequence of events which included a slow disclosure of a serious security flaw (which appears to be getting worse), a secret early disclosure
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This month Lenovo launched their Mirage Solo, based on Google’s Daydream platform. In many ways, this is the missing link in the current generation of blended virtual reality (VR) / augmented reality (AR) offerings. The problem up till now is
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I’m at Dell Technologies World this week and sitting in the audience of Pat Gelsinger’s keynote. He is focused on VMware ONE and how it is improving the user experience. Pat is the CEO that I’ve always thought should be
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BlackBerry reminds me a bit of Microsoft in the early days. That is, Microsoft wasn’t religious about the hardware and could drift between platforms relatively easily. On cars, BlackBerry QNX is the dominant operating system and the firm works with
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