I’m ex-IBM myself and it gives me great pleasure to see my old firm do well. Well this quarter they didn’t disappoint with significant improvement in their new business initiatives, which are just short of 50 percent of revenue. You […]
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I attend a dozen or so IT industry conferences annually and the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is easily the most over the top in terms of people, products, stylish substance and market hype. That’s partly due to the sheer size
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One of the interesting stories that virtually no one is telling is how four huge vendors are quietly working together to bring connected autonomous cars to market. They really don’t even talk about each other much but, individually, none of
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I’m not a huge fan of CES. I truly envy my peers that don’t have to go. This is because the show has grown too large, too unfocused, and far too sexist. There are things that go on at CES
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I’ve had an interesting week thanks to Amazon and—I think—it showcases what could be a huge problem with some of these new mega companies like Amazon. Relatively low-level employees gain incredible power and can do impressive damage on a whim.
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Acer is an established and reliable name in the PC market, and a key OEM partner for Microsoft. When Acer offered me an opportunity to test out the Swift 3 laptop, I gladly accepted. Acer seems to offer a solid
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I’m still at the Qualcomm press and analyst event this week. Let me tell you, doing this in Hawaii has been great, I wish everyone did their events here. One of the more interesting keynotes came on the last day
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Squeezing extra goodness out of favorite technology products is a risky business. That’s mainly because the industry and related markets change so rapidly that digging for gold in a nostalgia mine can be fraught with problems and potential failure. However,
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If I were to coin one word for this decade it would be “ironic”. The most recent example is the Apple HomePod. Because it seems to approach Amazon’s dominant Echo product in much the same way the Microsoft (disclosure Microsoft
How Apple HomePod Avoided Making the Mistakes of Microsoft Zune Read More »
The IT industry loves technical jargon, complex acronyms and rules for demonstrable trends or recurring events. These can highlight the industry’s constant evolution, especially products at a market’s leading edge. But, many are applied selectively, like Moore’s first and second
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