The IT industry absolutely loves new products and technical achievements but like any obsession, it occasionally turns pathological. A good example is the assumed superiority of emerging technologies over well-established products and services. As a result, leading vendors, like IBM, […]
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Earlier this month, NVIDIA showcased a technology out of their labs that could massively both speed up and lower the cost of games and rendered movies. They did this by using AI to do the heavy lifting and generate scenes
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One of the most common questions, or statements really, back in the 1990s was on whether Microsoft was evil. You could see how folks got there because—at the time—Microsoft was heavy handed, Netscape was claiming (accurately) that Microsoft was misacting
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All but the youngest among us realize how much ecommerce has changed how the world works. In just ten years or so, internet and mobile technology have transformed the shopping experience, and in so doing, turned consumer behavior and expectations
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There are numerous ways to screw-up classic or iconic products but two come immediately to mind. First, a vendor can treat the device like a holy relic, scrupulously avoiding changes so the thing loses its allure and drifts in irrelevance.
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Apple was the first to a trillion dollars in today’s money but underneath this impressive valuation is a lot of really bad news as the company has put itself into a hole that looks nearly impossible to dig out of.
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This week Microsoft had an update for their HoloLens technology which, I think, currently has the best shot at defining one of the major evolutionary pivots for personal computers. Right now, it reminds me a lot of the early days
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“May you live in interesting times” is an ancient Chinese curse that’s often perfectly suited for the tech sector and vendors. A recent example is the painful past few months suffered by Intel. That began with the surprise exit of
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One of the most interesting books I’ve read this year is Technically Wrong, which talks to why so many products are crap. While you should read the book because I’m over simplifying, the reason for crap products according to the
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NVIDIA currently has the only packaged third-party autonomous car solution in market that is both complete (short of the car itself) and comparatively mature. I say “comparatively” because, until autonomous cars are on the road at scale, no solution can
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