When a management reshuffling is announced on a weekend at an hour when most of America is focused on football playoff games, it’s not usually a good sign. I got the news from my Facebook BlackBerry feed. Fans of the Blackberry and RIM (I count myself among them) certainly knew... Read More »
Arguments against the cloud are a lot like Disney movies: every few years, the people who make money from them get to re-release them to a whole new audience. My informal measures of cyberspace FUD are now showing just such a cyclical spike in an oft-heard excuse for postponing cloud... Read More »
WooHoo: You’ve just unlocked the URL of Blogville Badge! With Hostess becoming as bankrupt as the nutritional information in a Ding Dong and Kodak redefining the Kodak moment of another kind of bankruptcy, I immediately thought of my childhood. Thankfully those cheerful marketing images that blanketed the store shelves were... Read More »
When you need to know something at work, do you leave your desk to go to the "communication room"? More likely, you reach out and pick up a phone, or grab a keyboard and send some kind of message. We expect to have communication available where we are, in the... Read More »
Microsoft, which usually gives the opening keynote at the Consumer Electronics Show, served up a pre-show coup de gras this year: 2012 would be Microsoft’s last year at the show. The Vancouver Sun summed up the tone of the CES obits: That disparity [between newsorthy products and those that are... Read More »
There comes a moment, not the aha moment, but the I wonder whether someone else had this idea in 2004 moment. I can't be sure, but here it is for what it's worth. I think Apple TV is going to go real small, not the other rumored way around. As... Read More »
Too many people misunderstand the most important meaning of 'feedback.' You'll hear that word most often in two settings: when a sound system squeals, or when a teacher or a boss gives a compliment. In either case, that's 'positive feedback': a small signal is (accidentally or intentionally) "fed back" into... Read More »
Depending on whom you ask, 2011 was either the year of the iPad or the year of social. The truth is that they were and are equally weighted because they are catalysts for each other, and while each can exist without the other, imagining such a thing is like trying... Read More »
I have been obsessed with my Kindle Fire since it arrived in mid-November. So as we wait for iPad3, I thought I’d dash off this quick open letter to Jeff Bezos about the possibilities. I don’t flatter myself that Bezos or anyone else at amazon.com needs my advice, but the... Read More »
