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. […]
My Amazon Nightmare: A Cautionary Tale of Employee / Company Abuse of Power Read More »
Digital cameras and mobile devices have transformed the way we take, store, and share photos. Amazon wants to help you store, organize and share those photos with its new Prime Photos service. I’m old enough to remember when you had
Amazon Expands Prime Perks with Prime Photos Read More »
This is the second in a series of three articles reviewing the Amazon Echo device and it different features and capabilities, and the Echo’s place in our technological universe. The first covered some of the basics you’ll experience in getting
Review: Amazon Echo – The Human:AI Interface Read More »
This is the first in a series of three articles that will review the Amazon Echo device and it different features and capabilities, and the Echo’s place in our technological universe. The first will cover some of the basics you’ll
Review: Amazon Echo Read More »
There is a lot of news this week talking about the “Amazon Echo Killer” called “Google Chirp”. I’m once again reminded why I avoid product naming like the plague, my rule is “that the only thing everyone ever agrees with
Why Amazon Echo Challenger Google ‘Chirp’ Will Likely Fail Read More »
Amazon announced that it is making Amazon Prime membership available as a monthly subscription as well as the standard annual subscription. It is also now offering Amazon Prime Video as a standalone service to go head-to-head with Netflix and other
Amazon Offers Far More Bang for the Buck than Netflix Read More »
By now it would be no surprise that a significant share of your personal and business data and applications are running in the giant clouds of Amazon, Google or Microsoft. Microsoft alone claims about 10 trillion objects are stored using
The World is Cloudy Read More »
Amazon has announced the new Kindle Oasis. The new Kindle redefines the e-reader with a dramatic overhaul in design, and a high-end, luxury price to go with it. The Kindle has been around for eight years. That may not seem
Kindle Oasis Is a Dramatic (and Expensive) Shift from Its Kindle Siblings Read More »
The primary benefit of Amazon Prime has always been the ability to have virtually anything arrive at your house in 2 days for “free” (if you forget about the fact that you paid $99 for the privilege in the first
There’s much more to Amazon Prime than ‘free’ shipping Read More »
We run around talking about how important analytics is and yet there are few really compelling examples of how well it is working. Part of this is because the vast majority of implementations are still in process and haven’t gotten
How GoPro is using Amazon, BMC, and Cloudera to kick everyone else’s butt Read More »
