The Grand Adventure
In Part 3 of this series, I’d like to cover the world outside of your company. In order to be an innovative company, you must be able to constantly monitor the trends affecting your customers, your competitors, your supply chain, your economic environment, in essence, your whole ecosystem. Dan Burrus likes to refer to trends […]
I am amazed at what we are technically capable of given the last short decade of advancement. The iPhone was introduced in 2007 and created a whole new capability that has been widely copied by Android and to a lesser extent, Microsoft. Computing power was unleashed from the desktop and is now at anyone’s fingertips […]
I attended a local social session recently on the topic of Retail, the Internet of Things (IoT), and Mobility. IoT First, what the heck is the “Internet of Things”? It’s such a high level term, no doubt introduced as a buzzword to make what’s old new again. I think we need a new naming committee. […]
I read an article in the WSJ today about movies in virtual reality. Personally, I think this application of technology will go down the path of 3D movies. Interesting, but not the magic application of technology that causes billions of dollars of new commerce through increased ticket sales or 3D televisions flying off the shelves. […]
Anyone remember the “diskless workstation” that IBM was marketing in the late-80s and 90s? The business drivers were predominantly associated with cost, as you could skip the disk drives, but security was also a great factor. After all, if someone stole a company’s diskless workstations, all they would get is hardware as no confidential information […]
I’ve had one for about 3 weeks. Initially, when I got it, I was enamored. After a couple of days, I wasn’t feeling the love. For $400 (black sport with black sport band), I didn’t feel buyer’s remorse, but I think I had higher expectations. Part of the reason is I’m a runner, and I […]
I thought I would share some research with my community on one good path to becoming a proficient Apple developer. My background is programming. I started programming at an early age and I learned C shortly after I started at IBM long ago because I wanted to branch out from mainframe code to OS/2 code. […]
I keep seeing tons of press around Google and what it plans to do with Motorola in terms of Android. I had an epiphany today that the real value of Motorola’s assets to Google is in the IPTV space. It’s a shame they only bought Motorola Mobility. There are really only three “types” of handsets […]
Amazon, Apple, the razor and the blade