I was wrong. The Facebook S-1 does NOT say that “our CEO is 27 and has limited prior employment history.” But it does say a lot. There’s a lot to cheer about in the S-1, including three years of profitability and a solid engine of free cash flow clearly in... Read More »
Two groups of experts in separate teams across the globe are getting dangerously close to events that will change their respective fields. For physicists working on CERN, it’s the search for the Higgs particle, the elusive piece of sub-atomic matter whose existence could help prove the Standard Model of Physics.... Read More »
There's a perception that cloud computing has become a “mature” technology, a perception shared by few but anticipated by most everyone else with the exception of those trying to preserve their self-interests. I don’t blame them – each person inherently protects self-interests. They're wrong though. Cloud is not mature. It... Read More »
My grandfather appears to have grown up in a village in southern India, attended university in what was then Madras, worked as “private secretary” to one of India’s richest men and biggest landowners, the Maharaja of Darbhanga, all on his way to founding a weekly magazine, called Indian Finance, in... Read More »
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 »
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