Twitter’s buzzworthy announcement of its “Innovator’s Patent Agreement” could rewrite the tangled web of patent litigation in the technology world. Just to refresh you, he’s what that web looks like for mobile patents alone (source: Reuters): Twitter is proposing that its IPA can help prevent patents from being used to... Read More »
Soon everyone on earth will be connected. It’s over. People are getting connected. Things are getting connected. Whole communities are getting connected. And when communities get connected, other things begin to happen. They become markets. Entire markets in themselves. And at the same time participants in larger markets. It’s fractal,... Read More »
Apple’s barnburner sales of the new iPad (three million in the first three days of sales) are a clear indication that the latest iteration of the breakthrough device is connecting with more than just fanboys. And while I am sure that the vast majority of them are being picked up... Read More »
How much do you make? Have you ever contemplated suicide? Are you now or have you ever been…? Are you aware of the fact…? I have here before me… [...]information devices for universal, tyrannical womb-to-tomb surveillance are causing a very serious dilemma between our claim to privacy and the community’s... Read More »
“Mr. CIO, tear down these walls.” OK, so that’s not exactly what President Ronald Reagan said as he stood outside the Brandenburg Gate nearly 25 years ago. But it is how many employees feel when forced to use ERP systems when what really need is software that is faster to... Read More »
What new shiny object do we not care about today? And what do crown jewels mean anyway? Thus was the start of a conversation with the New Zealand provocateur – in human form, which was a follow up to a Gillmor Gang Enterprise show recorded live in real-time. Behind the... Read More »
Admit it. I had you with that headline. Have I finally flipped? What could possibly connect Neil Young and David Agus to the Social Enterprise, and related topics? I could just say “Marc Benioff”, since he personally introduced me to all three. Soon after joining Salesforce.com, I heard Marc speak... Read More »
Online piracy has been a big issue over the past few months, mostly owing to the Stop Online Piracy Act, the web protest by Wikipedia, Google and others, and the subsequent withdrawal of the bill. The opposition to SOPA called the one-day rebellion the largest online protest in history with... 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 »
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